Rumi's Masnavi - I say to the sea, ‘Hark, be full of fire!’ I say to the fire, ‘Go, be a rose-garden!’

I say to the sea, ‘Hark, be full of fire!’ I say to the fire, ‘Go, be a rose-garden!’

بحر را گویم که هین پر نار شو ** گویم آتش را که رو گلزار شو

I say to the mountain, ‘Be light as wool!’ I say to heaven, ‘Be rent asunder before the eye!’

کوه را گویم سبک شو همچو پشم ** چرخ را گویم فرو در پیش چشم‏

I say, ‘O sun, be joined to the moon!’ I make them both like two black clouds. 1630

گویم ای خورشید مقرون شو به ماه ** هر دو را سازم چو دو ابر سیاه‏

We make dry the fountain of the sun: by Our art We turn into musk the fountain of blood.”

چشمه‏ی خورشید را سازیم خشک ** چشمه‏ی خون را به فن سازیم مشک‏

Sun and moon (shall be) like two black oxen: God will fasten a yoke upon their necks.

آفتاب و مه چو دو گاو سیاه ** یوغ بر گردن ببنددشان اله‏

How a philosopher showed disbelief at the recitation of (the text), “if your water shall have sunk into the ground.”

انکار فلسفی بر قرائت إن أصبح ماؤکم غورا

A teacher of Qur’án-recitation was reading from the page of the Book, “(if) your water (shall have) sunk into the ground: (that is, if) I stop the water from (reaching) the spring,

مقریی می‏خواند از روی کتاب ** ماؤکم غورا ز چشمه بندم آب‏

And hide the water in the depths, and make the springs dry and a place of drought,

آب را در غورها پنهان کنم ** چشمه‏ها را خشک و خشکستان کنم‏

Who shall bring the water to the spring again except Me who have no like, the Gracious, the Glorious?” 1635

آب را در چشمه کی آرد دگر ** جز من بی‏مثل با فضل و خطر

A contemptible philosopher and logician was passing beside the school at that moment.

فلسفی منطقی مستهان ** می‏گذشت از سوی مکتب آن زمان‏

When he heard the verse (of the Qur’án), he said in disapproval, “We bring the water (back) with a mattock;

چون که بشنید آیت او از ناپسند ** گفت آریم آب را ما با کلند