Rumi's Masnavi - When ye become poor (selfless) in the right Way, verily the Lion and the Lion's prey are yours,

When ye become poor (selfless) in the right Way, verily the Lion and the Lion's prey are yours,

چون فقیر آیید اندر راه راست ** شیر و صید شیر خود آن شماست‌‌

Because He is holy, and Glory is His attribute: He hath no need of good things and kernel or rind. 3140

ز آنکه او پاک است و سبحان وصف اوست ** بی‌‌نیاز است او ز نغز و مغز و پوست‌‌

Every prize and every gift of grace that exists is for the sake of the servants of that King (God).

هر شکار و هر کراماتی که هست ** از برای بندگان آن شه است‌‌

The King hath no desire (for anything): He hath made all this empire for His creatures. Happy is he that knew!

نیست شه را طمع بهر خلق ساخت ** این همه دولت خنک آن کاو شناخت‌‌

Of what use should the possession of empires be to Him who created (all) empire and the two worlds?

آن که دولت آفرید و دو سرا ** ملک دولتها چه کار آید و را

In the presence of His Glory keep watch, then, over your hearts, lest ye be put to shame by thinking evil.

پیش سبحان بس نگه دارید دل ** تا نگردید از گمان بد خجل‌‌

For He sees conscience and thought and quest (desire) as (plainly) as a thread of hair in pure milk. 3145

کاو ببیند سر و فکر و جستجو ** همچو اندر شیر خالص تار مو

He whose clear breast has become devoid of (any) image (impression) has become a mirror for the impressions of the Invisible.

آن که او بی‌‌نقش ساده سینه شد ** نقشهای غیب را آیینه شد

He becomes intuitively and undoubtingly aware of our inmost thought, because the true believer is the mirror of the true believer.

سر ما را بی‌‌گمان موقن شود ** ز آن که مومن آینه‌‌ی مومن شود

When he rubs our coin on the touchstone, then he knows the difference between faith and doubt.

چون زند او نقد ما را بر محک ** پس یقین را باز داند او ز شک‌‌