Rumi's Masnavi - How should I be grieved that grief is overthrown? Ye were grief (to me), O obstinate people.

How should I be grieved that grief is overthrown? Ye were grief (to me), O obstinate people. 2555

چون شوم غمگین که غم شد سر نگون ** غم شما بودید ای قوم حرون‌‌

Does any one lament the death of grief? Does any one tear out his hair when the sore on his head is removed?”

هیچ کس بر مرگ غم نوحه کند ** ریش سر چون شد کسی مو بر کند

(Then) he turned to himself and said, “O mourner, those folk are not worth thy mourning.”

رو به خود کرد و بگفت ای نوحه‌‌گر ** نوحه‌‌ات را می‌‌نیرزد آن نفر

Do not recite incorrectly, O thou who recitest correctly the perspicuous (Qur'án) “Say, how shall I be grieved for an unjust people?”

کژ مخوان ای راست خواننده‌‌ی مبین ** کیف آسی قل لقوم ظالمین‌‌

Again he felt a weeping in his eye and heart: an uncaused (involuntary) compassion shone forth in him.

باز اندر چشم و دل او گریه یافت ** رحمتی بی‌‌علتی در وی بتافت‌‌

He was raining drops of water (shedding tears)—and he had become distraught— an uncaused drop from the Ocean of Bounty. 2560

قطره می‌‌بارید و حیران گشته بود ** قطره‌‌ی بی‌‌علت از دریای جود

His intellect was saying, “Wherefore is this weeping? Ought one to weep for such scoffers?

عقل او می‌‌گفت کین گریه ز چیست ** بر چنان افسوسیان شاید گریست‌‌

Tell me, what art thou weeping for? For their fraud? For the host of (their) ill-omened exactions of vengeance?

بر چه می‌‌گریی بگو بر فعلشان ** بر سپاه کینه توز بدنشان‌‌

For their murky hearts full of rust? For their venomous snake-like tongues?

بر دل تاریک پر زنگارشان ** بر زبان زهر همچون مارشان‌‌

For their sagsár-like breath and teeth? For their mouths and eyes teeming with scorpions?

بر دم و دندان سگسارانه‌‌شان ** بر دهان و چشم کژدم خانه‌‌شان‌‌