Rumi's Masnavi - They were only a fire to consume the true believers: their fire consumed itself like rubbish.

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

Our breaths soar up with the choice (words), as a gift from us, to the abode of everlastingness;

ترتقی أنفاسنا بالمنتقی ** متحفا منا إلی دار البقا

Then comes to us the recompense of our speech, a double (recompense) thereof, as a mercy from (God) the Glorious;

ثم تاتینا مکافات المقال ** ضعف ذاک رحمة من ذی الجلال‌‌

Then He causes us to repair to (makes us utter) good words like those (already uttered), that His servant may obtain (something more) of what he has obtained. 885

ثم یلجینا الی امثالها ** کی ینال العبد مما نالها