Rumi's Masnavi - In regard to indication, they (the meaning and the form) are like the sap and the tree; (but) when you turn to the quiddity, they are very far (removed from each other).

In regard to indication, they (the meaning and the form) are like the sap and the tree; (but) when you turn to the quiddity, they are very far (removed from each other).

در دلالت همچو آب‌‌اند و درخت ** چون به ماهیت روی دورند سخت‌‌

(Let me) take leave of quiddities and essential properties, and relate what happened to those twain with faces like the moon.

ترک ماهیات و خاصیات گو ** شرح کن احوال آن دو ماهرو

How the Arab set his heart on (complying with) his beloved's request and swore that in thus submitting (to her) he had no (idea of) trickery and making trial (of her).

دل نهادن عرب بر التماس دل بر خویش و سوگند خوردن که در این تسلیم مرا حیلتی و امتحانی نیست‌‌

The man said, “Now I have ceased to oppose (thee): thou hast authority (to do what thou wilt): draw the sword from the sheath.

مرد گفت اکنون گذشتم از خلاف ** حکم داری تیغ بر کش از غلاف‌‌

Whatsoever thou biddest me do, I will obey: I will not consider the bad or good result of it.

هر چه گویی من ترا فرمان‌‌برم ** در بد و نیک آمد آن ننگرم‌‌

I will become non-existent in thy existence, because I am thy lover: love makes blind and deaf.” 2645

در وجود تو شوم من منعدم ** چون محبم حب یعمی و یصم‌‌

The wife said, “Dost thou intend to treat me with kindness, or art thou (bent on) discovering my secret by trickery?”

گفت زن آهنگ برم می‌‌کنی ** یا به حیلت کشف سرم می‌‌کنی‌‌

He said, “(No), by God who knows the thought most deeply hid, who out of dust created Adam pure (chosen above all),

گفت و الله عالم السر الخفی ** کافرید از خاک آدم را صفی‌‌

Who, in the body three cubits long which He gave him, displayed everything that was contained in the tablets (of destiny) and the (world of) spirits.

در سه گز قالب که دادش وا نمود ** هر چه در الواح و در ارواح بود

Through his He (God) taught him (Adam) the Names (through his God-given knowledge) he at the very first gave instruction (to the angels) concerning everything that shall come to pass unto everlasting,

تا ابد هر چه بود او پیش پیش ** درس کرد از علم الاسماء خویش‌‌

So that the angels became beside themselves (in amazement) at his teaching, and gained from his glorification (of God) a holiness other (than they possessed before). 2650

تا ملک بی‌‌خود شد از تدریس او ** قدس دیگر یافت از تقدیس او