Rumi's Masnavi - I said, “At last I have found myself: in his eyes I have found the shining Way.”

I said, “At last I have found myself: in his eyes I have found the shining Way.”

گفتم آخر خویش را من یافتم ** در دو چشمش راه روشن یافتم‏

My false instinct said, “Beware! That (image) is (only) thy phantom: distinguish thy essence from thy phantom”;

گفت وهمم کان خیال تست هان ** ذات خود را از خیال خود بدان‏

(But) my image gave voice (spoke) from thine eye (and said), “I am thou and thou art I in (perfect) oneness;

نقش من از چشم تو آواز داد ** که منم تو تو منی در اتحاد

For how should a phantom find the way into this illumined eye which never ceases from (contemplating) the (Divine) realities?”

کاندر این چشم منیر بی‏زوال ** از حقایق راه کی یابد خیال‏

(Thou saidst), “If you behold your image in the eyes of any other than me, know that ’tis a phantom and reprobate, 105

در دو چشم غیر من تو نقش خود ** گر ببینی آن خیالی دان و رد

Because he (every one except me) is applying (to his eye) the collyrium of nonexistence (unreality) and is imbibing the wine of Satan's illusion-making.

ز آن که سرمه‏ی نیستی در می‏کشد ** باده از تصویر شیطان می‏چشد

Their eye is the home of phantasy and non-existence: necessarily it sees as existent the things which are non-existent;

چشمشان خانه‏ی خیال است و عدم ** نیستها را هست بیند لاجرم‏

(But) since my eye saw (got) collyrium from the Glorious (God), it is the home of (real) existence, not the home of phantasy.”

چشم من چون سرمه دید از ذو الجلال ** خانه‏ی هستی است نه خانه‏ی خیال‏

So long as a single hair of you is before your eye, in your phantasy a pearl will be as jasper.

تا یکی مو باشد از تو پیش چشم ** در خیالت گوهری باشد چو یشم‏

You will know jasper from pearls (only) at the time when you pass away from (abandon) your phantasy entirely. 110

یشم را آن گه شناسی از گهر ** کز خیال خود کنی کلی عبر