Rumi's Masnavi - Says to it, “O dunghill, who art thou? Through my beams thou hast come to life for a day or two.

Says to it, “O dunghill, who art thou? Through my beams thou hast come to life for a day or two.

گویدش ای مزبله تو کیستی ** یک دو روز از پرتو من زیستی‌‌

Thy coquetry and prideful airs are not contained in the world (go beyond all bounds), (but) wait till I spring up (and escape) from thee!

غنج و نازت می‌‌نگنجد در جهان ** باش تا که من شوم از تو جهان‌‌

They whose love warmed thee will dig a grave for thee, they will make thee a morsel for ants and reptiles. 3270

گرم‌‌دارانت ترا گوری کنند ** طعمه‌‌ی موران و مارانت کنند

That one who many a time in thy presence was dying (with desire for thee) will hold his nose at thy stench.”

بینی از گند تو گیرد آن کسی ** کاو به پیش تو همی‌‌مردی بسی‌‌

The beams of the spirit are speech and eye and ear: the beam (effect) of fire is the bubbling in the water.

پرتو روح است نطق و چشم و گوش ** پرتو آتش بود در آب جوش‌‌

As the beam of the spirit falls on the body, so fall the beams of the Abdál on my soul.

آن چنان که پرتو جان بر تن است ** پرتو ابدال بر جان من است‌‌

When the Soul of the soul withdraws from the soul, the soul becomes even as the soulless (lifeless) body. Know (this for sure)!

جان جان چون واکشد پا را ز جان ** جان چنان گردد که بی‌‌جان تن بدان‌‌

For that reason I am laying my head (humbly) on the earth, so that she (the earth) may be my witness on the Day of Judgement. 3275

سر از آن رو می‌‌نهم من بر زمین ** تا گواه من بود در روز دین‌‌

On the Day of Judgement, when she shall be made to quake mightily, this earth will bear witness to all that passed (in and from us);

یوم دین که زلزلت زلزالها ** این زمین باشد گواه حالها

For she will plainly declare what she knows: earth and rocks will begin to speak.

کاو تحدث جهرة أخبارها ** در سخن آید زمین و خاره‌‌ها