Rumi's Masnavi - These shells of bodies in the world, though they all are living by (grace of) the Sea of Soul

These shells of bodies in the world, though they all are living by (grace of) the Sea of Soul—

این صدفهای قوالب در جهان ** گر چه جمله زنده‏اند از بحر جان‏

Yet there is not a pearl in every shell: open your eyes and look into the heart of each one,

لیک اندر هر صدف نبود گهر ** چشم بگشا در دل هر یک نگر

And pick out what that one has and what this, because that costly pearl is seldom found. 1025

کان چه دارد وین چه دارد می‏گزین ** ز انکه کمیاب است آن در ثمین‏

If you go (turn your attention) to the form, by external appearance a mountain is a hundred times as much as a ruby in bigness;

گر به صورت می‏روی کوهی به شکل ** در بزرگی هست صد چندان که لعل‏

Also, in respect of form, your hands and feet and hair are a hundred times as much as the contour of the eye;

هم به صورت دست و پا و پشم تو ** هست صد چندان که نقش چشم تو

But this (fact) is not hidden from you, that the two eyes are the choicest of all (your) members.

لیک پوشیده نباشد بر تو این ** کز همه اعضا دو چشم آمد گزین‏

By one thought that comes into the mind a hundred worlds are overturned in a single moment.

از یک اندیشه که آید در درون ** صد جهان گردد به یک دم سر نگون‏

If the body of the Sultan is, in form (appearance), one (only), (yet) hundreds of thousands of soldiers run behind (it). 1030

جسم سلطان گر به صورت یک بود ** صد هزاران لشکرش در پی دود

Again, the figure and form of the excellent King are ruled by one invisible thought.

باز شکل و صورت شاه صفی ** هست محکوم یکی فکر خفی‏

Behold people without end who, moved by one thought, have gone over the earth like a flood;

خلق بی‏پایان ز یک اندیشه بین ** گشته چون سیلی روانه بر زمین‏