Rumi's Masnavi - When you have made search (and your) looking has been in earnest—earnest endeavour does not fail: so the Tradition has come down (from the Prophet)

When you have made search (and your) looking has been in earnest—earnest endeavour does not fail: so the Tradition has come down (from the Prophet)—

چون طلب کردی به جد آمد نظر ** جد خطا نکند چنین آمد خبر

Suddenly comes a blessed rider; then he clasps you very closely to his breast.

ناگهان آمد سواری نیک بخت ** پس گرفت اندر کنارت سخت سخت‏

You become senseless and fall to vaunting (ecstatically); the ignorant (uninitiated) man says, “Here is fraud and hypocrisy.”

تو شدی بی‏هوش و افتادی به طاق ** بی‏خبر گفت اینت سالوس و نفاق‏

How does he see what this enthusiasm in him (the enraptured person) is? He knows not (who it is) with whom that is the sign of union. 1700

او چه می‏بیند در او این شور چیست ** او نداند کان نشان وصل کیست‏

This sign concerns (only) him that has seen (before): how should the sign appear to the other one?

این نشان در حق او باشد که دید ** آن دگر را کی نشان آید پدید

Every moment that a sign was coming from Him, a (new) spirit was coming into that person's spirit.

هر زمان کز وی نشانی می‏رسید ** شخص را جانی به جانی می‏رسید

Water has reached the helpless fish. These signs are (those mentioned in the text) those are the signs of the Book.

ماهی بی‏چاره را پیش آمد آب ** این نشانها تلک آیات الکتاب‏

Hence the signs which are in the prophets are peculiar to (known exclusively by) him who is a friend (knower and lover of God).

پس نشانیها که اندر انبیاست ** خاص آن جان را بود کاو آشناست‏

This discourse remains imperfect and unsettled; I have no heart (understanding), I am out of my mind: excuse me. 1705

این سخن ناقص بماند و بی‏قرار ** دل ندارم بی‏دلم معذور دار

How can any one number the motes, especially that one whose understanding has been transported by Love?

ذره‏ها را کی تواند کس شمرد ** خاصه آن کاو عشق عقل او ببرد