Rumi's Masnavi - The more cures and remedies they applied, the more did the illness increase, and the need was not fulfilled.

The more cures and remedies they applied, the more did the illness increase, and the need was not fulfilled.

هر چه کردند از علاج و از دوا ** گشت رنج افزون و حاجت ناروا

The sick girl became (thin) as a hair, (while) the eyes of the king flowed with tears of blood, like a river.

آن کنیزک از مرض چون موی شد ** چشم شه از اشک خون چون جوی شد

By Divine destiny, oxymel increased the bile, and oil of almonds was producing dryness.

از قضا سرکنگبین صفرا فزود ** روغن بادام خشکی می‌‌نمود

From (giving) myrobalan constipation resulted, relaxation ceased; and water fed the flames, like naphtha.

از هلیله قبض شد اطلاق رفت ** آب آتش را مدد شد همچو نفت‌‌

How it became manifest that the physicians were unable to cure the handmaiden, and how the king turned his face towards God and dreamed of a holy man.

ظاهر شدن عجز حکیمان از معالجه‌‌ی کنیزک و روی آوردن پادشاه به درگاه خدا و در خواب دیدن او ولی را

When the king saw the powerlessness of those physicians, he ran bare-footed to the mosque. 55

شه چو عجز آن حکیمان را بدید ** پا برهنه جانب مسجد دوید

He entered the mosque and advanced to the mihráb (to pray): the prayer-carpet was bathed in the king's tears.

رفت در مسجد سوی محراب شد ** سجده گاه از اشک شه پر آب شد

On coming to himself out of the flood of ecstasy (faná) he opened his lips in goodly praise and prayer,

چون به خویش آمد ز غرقاب فنا ** خوش زبان بگشاد در مدح و ثنا

Saying, “O Thou whose least gift is the empire of the world, what shall I say, in as much as Thou knowest the hidden thing?

کای کمینه بخششت ملک جهان ** من چه گویم چون تو می‌‌دانی نهان‌‌

O Thou with whom we always take refuge in our need, once again we have missed the way.

ای همیشه حاجت ما را پناه ** بار دیگر ما غلط کردیم راه‌‌

But Thou hast said, ‘Albeit I know thy secret, nevertheless declare it forthwith in thine outward act.’” 60

لیک گفتی گر چه می‌‌دانم سرت ** زود هم پیدا کنش بر ظاهرت‌‌