Rumi's Masnavi - (If) these hearts have not bled, ’tis not because of (their) hardness, ’tis (because of) heedlessness and preoccupation and ill-fatedness.

(If) these hearts have not bled, ’tis not because of (their) hardness, ’tis (because of) heedlessness and preoccupation and ill-fatedness.

این جگرها خون نشد نز سختی است ** غفلت و مشغولی و بد بختی است‌‌

They will bleed one day when blood is no use to them: do thou bleed at a time when (thy) blood is not rejected.

خون شود روزی که خونش سود نیست ** خون شو آن وقتی که خون مردود نیست‌‌

Inasmuch as the testimony of slaves is not accepted, the approved witness is he that is not the slave of the ghoul (of sensuality).

چون گواهی بندگان مقبول نیست ** عدل او باشد که بنده‌‌ی غول نیست‌‌

(The words) We have sent thee as a witness came in the Warning (the Qur’án), because he (the Prophet) was entirely free from (creaturely) existence.

گشت ارسلناک شاهد در نذر ** ز آن که بود از کون او حر ابن حر

“Since I am free, how should anger bind me? Nothing is here but Divine qualities. Come in! 3825

چون که حرم خشم کی بندد مرا ** نیست اینجا جز صفات حق در آ

Come in, for the grace of God hath made thee free, because His mercy had the precedence over His wrath.

اندر آ کازاد کردت فضل حق ** ز آن که رحمت داشت بر خشمش سبق‌‌

Come in now, for thou hast escaped from the peril: thou wert a (common) stone, the Elixir hath made thee a jewel.

اندر آ اکنون که رستی از خطر ** سنگ بودی کیمیا کردت گهر

Thou hast been delivered from unbelief and its thorn-thicket: blossom like a rose in the cypress-garden of Hú (God).

رسته‌‌ای از کفر و خارستان او ** چون گلی بشکفته در بستان هو

Thou art I and I am thou, O illustrious one: thou wert ‘Alí— how should I kill ‘Alí?

تو منی و من توام ای محتشم ** تو علی بودی علی را چون کشم‌‌

Thou hast committed a sin better than any act of piety, thou hast traversed Heaven in a single moment.” 3830

معصیت کردی به از هر طاعتی ** آسمان پیموده‌‌ای در ساعتی‌‌