Rumi's Masnavi - He has drunk salt water from the sweet Sea, so that the salt water has made him blind.

He has drunk salt water from the sweet Sea, so that the salt water has made him blind.

او ز بحر عذب آب شور خورد ** تا که آب شور او را کور کرد

The Sea is saying, “Drink of my water with the right hand, O blind one, that thou mayst gain sight.”

بحر می‏گوید به دست راست خور ** ز آب من ای کور تا یابی بصر

Here “the right hand” is right opinion, which knows concerning (both) good and evil whence they are. 1120

هست دست راست اینجا ظن راست ** کاو بداند نیک و بد را کز کجاست‏

O lance, there is a Lancer, so that sometimes thou becomest straight, sometimes (bent) double.

نیزه گردانی است ای نیزه که تو ** راست می‏گردی گهی گاهی دو تو

Through love of Shams-i Dín (the Sun of the Religion) I am without claws (powerless); else I would make that blind one see.

ما ز عشق شمس دین بی‏ناخنیم ** ور نه ما آن کور را بینا کنیم‏

Hark, O Light of the Truth, Husámu’ddín, do thou speedily heal him, to the confusion of the eye of the envious;

هان ضیاء الحق حسام الدین تو زود ** داروش کن کوری چشم حسود

(Heal him with) the quick-acting tutty of majesty, the darkness-killing remedy of the recalcitrant,

توتیای کبریای تیز فعل ** داروی ظلمت کش استیز فعل‏

Which, if it strike on the eye of the blind man, will dispel from him a hundred years' darkness. 1125

آن که گر بر چشم اعمی بر زند ** ظلمت صد ساله را زو بر کند

Heal all the blind ones except the envious man who from envy is bringing denial against thee.

جمله کوران را دوا کن جز حسود ** کز حسودی بر تو می‏آرد جحود

To thy envier, though it be I, do not give life, (but let me alone) so that I may be suffering the agony of (spiritual) death even as he is.

مر حسودت را اگر چه آن منم ** جان مده تا همچنین جان می‏کنم‏