Rumi's Masnavi - After that, the fire blazed up forty ells high, became a ring, and consumed those Jews.

After that, the fire blazed up forty ells high, became a ring, and consumed those Jews.

بعد از آن آتش چهل گز بر فروخت ** حلقه گشت و آن جهودان را بسوخت‌‌

From fire was their origin in the beginning: they went (back) to their origin in the end.

اصل ایشان بود آتش ابتدا ** سوی اصل خویش رفتند انتها

That company were born of fire: the way of particulars is towards the universal. 875

هم ز آتش زاده بودند آن فریق ** جزوها را سوی کل باشد طریق‌‌

They were only a fire to consume the true believers: their fire consumed itself like rubbish.

آتشی بودند مومن سوز و بس ** سوخت خود را آتش ایشان چو خس‌‌

He whose mother is Háwiya (Hell-fire)—Háwiya shall become his cell (abode).

آن که بوده ست امه الهاویه ** هاویه آمد مر او را زاویه‌‌

The mother of the child is (always) seeking it: the fundamentals pursue the derivatives.

مادر فرزند جویان وی است ** اصلها مر فرعها را در پی است‌‌

If water is imprisoned in a tank, the wind sucks it up, for it (the wind) belongs to the original (source):

آب اندر حوض اگر زندانی است ** باد نشفش می‌‌کند کار کانی است‌‌

It sets it free, it wafts it away to its source, little by little, so that you do not see its wafting; 880

می‌‌رهاند می‌‌برد تا معدنش ** اندک اندک تا نبینی بردنش‌‌

And our souls likewise this breath (of ours) steals away, little by little, from the prison of the world.

وین نفس جانهای ما را همچنان ** اندک اندک دزدد از حبس جهان‌‌

The perfumes of our (good) words ascend even unto Him, ascending from us whither God knoweth.

تا إلیه یصعد أطیاب الکلم ** صاعدا منا إلی حیث علم‌‌