Rumi's Masnavi - Thou art the Guide of every one that hath life: what is the blind man without staff and guide?

Thou art the Guide of every one that hath life: what is the blind man without staff and guide? 3920

تو عصا کش هر که را که زندگی است ** بی‌‌عصا و بی‌‌عصا کش کور چیست‌‌

Excepting Thee (alone), whatsoever is sweet or unsweet is man-destroying and the essence of fire.

غیر تو هر چه خوش است و ناخوش است ** آدمی سوز است و عین آتش است‌‌

Any one to whom fire is a refuge and support becomes both a Magian and a Zoroaster.

هر که را آتش پناه و پشت شد ** هم مجوسی گشت و هم زردشت شد

Everything except Allah is vain: verily the grace of Allah is a cloud pouring abundantly and continually.

کل شی‌‌ء ما خلا الله باطل ** إن فضل الله غیم هاطل‌‌

Returning to the story of ‘Alí—may God honour his person!— and how generously he behaved to his murderer.

باز گشتن به حکایت امیر المؤمنین علی کرم الله وجهه و مسامحت کردن او با خونی خویش‌‌

Go back to ‘Alí and his murderer, and the kindness he showed to the murderer, and his superiority (moral and spiritual excellence).

باز رو سوی علی و خونی‌‌اش ** و آن کرم با خونی و افزونی‌‌اش‌‌

He said, “Day and night I see the enemy with my eyes, (but) I have no anger against him, 3925

گفت دشمن را همی بینم به چشم ** روز و شب بر وی ندارم هیچ خشم

Because death has become sweet as manna to me: my death has laid fast hold of resurrection.”

ز آنکه مرگم همچو من خوش آمده ست ** مرگ من در بعث چنگ اندر زده ست‌‌

The death of deathlessness is lawful to us, the provision of unprovidedness is a bounty to us.

مرگ بی‌‌مرگی بود ما را حلال ** برگ بی‌‌برگی بود ما را نوال‌‌

’Tis death outwardly but life inwardly: apparently ’tis a cutting-off (decease), in secret (in reality) ’tis permanence (life without end).

ظاهرش مرگ و به باطن زندگی ** ظاهرش ابتر نهان پایندگی‌‌

To the embryo in the womb birth is a going (to another state of existence): in the world it (the embryo) blossoms anew.

در رحم زادن جنین را رفتن است ** در جهان او را ز نو بشکفتن است‌‌