Rumi's Masnavi - ’Tis impossible to distinguish the light of the two eyes, when a man has cast his look upon their light.

’Tis impossible to distinguish the light of the two eyes, when a man has cast his look upon their light.

نور هر دو چشم نتوان فرق کرد ** چون که در نورش نظر انداخت مرد

If ten lamps are present in (one) place, each differs in form from another:

ده چراغ ار حاضر آید در مکان ** هر یکی باشد به صورت غیر آن‌‌

To distinguish without any doubt the light of each, when you turn your face towards their light, is impossible.

فرق نتوان کرد نور هر یکی ** چون به نورش روی آری بی‌‌شکی‌‌

If you count a hundred apples or a hundred quinces, they do not remain a hundred (but) become one, when you crush them (together). 680

گر تو صد سیب و صد آبی بشمری ** صد نماند یک شود چون بفشری‌‌

In things spiritual there is no division and no numbers; in things spiritual there is no partition and no individuals.

در معانی قسمت و اعداد نیست ** در معانی تجزیه و افراد نیست‌‌

Sweet is the oneness of the Friend with His friends: catch (and cling to) the foot of spirit. Form is headstrong.

اتحاد یار با یاران خوش است ** پای معنی گیر صورت سرکش است‌‌

Make headstrong form waste away with tribulation, that beneath it you may descry unity, like a (buried) treasure;

صورت سرکش گدازان کن به رنج ** تا ببینی زیر او وحدت چو گنج‌‌

And if you waste it not away, His favours will waste it—oh, my heart is His vassal.

ور تو نگذاری عنایتهای او ** خود گدازد ای دلم مولای او

He even showeth Himself to (our) hearts, He seweth the tattered frock of the dervish. 685

او نماید هم به دلها خویش را ** او بدوزد خرقه‌‌ی درویش را

Simple were we and all one substance; we were all without head and without foot yonder.

منبسط بودیم و یک جوهر همه ** بی‌‌سر و بی‌‌پا بدیم آن سر همه‌‌