Rumi's Masnavi - When the promised hour arrived and day broke and the sun, (rising) from the east, began to burn the stars,

When the promised hour arrived and day broke and the sun, (rising) from the east, began to burn the stars,

چون رسید آن وعده‌‌گاه و روز شد ** آفتاب از شرق، اختر سوز شد

The king was in the belvedere, expecting to see that which had been shown mysteriously.

بود اندر منظره شه منتظر ** تا ببیند آن چه بنمودند سر

He saw a person excellent and worshipful, a sun amidst a shadow,

دید شخصی فاضلی پر مایه‌‌ای ** آفتابی در میان سایه‌‌ای‌‌

Coming from afar, like the new moon (in slenderness and radiance): he was nonexistent, though existent in the form of phantasy.

می‌‌رسید از دور مانند هلال ** نیست بود و هست بر شکل خیال‌‌

In the spirit phantasy is as naught, (yet) behold a world (turning) on a phantasy! 70

نیست وش باشد خیال اندر روان ** تو جهانی بر خیالی بین روان‌‌

Their peace and their war (turn) on a phantasy, and their pride and their shame spring from a phantasy;

بر خیالی صلح‌‌شان و جنگشان ** وز خیالی فخرشان و ننگشان‌‌

(But) those phantasies which ensnare the saints are the reflexion of the fair ones of the garden of God.

آن خیالاتی که دام اولیاست ** عکس مه رویان بستان خداست‌‌

In the countenance of the stranger-guest was appearing that phantasy which the king beheld in his dream.

آن خیالی که شه اندر خواب دید ** در رخ مهمان همی‌‌آمد پدید

The king himself, instead of the chamberlains, went forward to meet his guest from the Invisible.

شه به جای حاجبان واپیش رفت ** پیش آن مهمان غیب خویش رفت

Both were seamen who had learned to swim, the souls of both were knit together without sewing. 75

هر دو بحری آشنا آموخته ** هر دو جان بی‌‌دوختن بر دوخته‌‌