Rumi's Masnavi - If I should speak to one whose (ruling) planet is Saturn of his (Saturn's) fire, it (my discourse) would burn (torment) that hapless man.

If I should speak to one whose (ruling) planet is Saturn of his (Saturn's) fire, it (my discourse) would burn (torment) that hapless man.

گر بگویم آن زحل استاره را ** ز آتشش سوزد مر آن بی‏چاره را

Our King (God) has given permission, (saying), “Commemorate Allah”: He saw us in the fire and gave us light. 1715

اذکروا الله شاه ما دستور داد ** اندر آتش دید ما را نور داد

He has said, “Although I far transcend your commemoration (of Me), (and although) the pictorial ideas (of human speech) are not suitable to Me,

گفت اگر چه پاکم از ذکر شما ** نیست لایق مر مرا تصویرها

Yet he that is intoxicated with (pictorial) imagination and fancy will never apprehend My essence without (the help of) similitude.”

لیک هرگز مست تصویر و خیال ** در نیابد ذات ما را بی‏مثال‏

Bodily commemoration is an imperfect fancy: the Kingly attributes are remote from those (forms of speech).

ذکر جسمانه خیال ناقص است ** وصف شاهانه از آنها خالص است‏

If any one say of a king, “He is not a weaver,” what praise is this? He (that person) is surely ignorant.

شاه را گوید کسی جولاه نیست ** این چه مدح است این مگر آگاه نیست‏

How Moses, on whom be peace, took offence at the prayer of the shepherd.

انکار کردن موسی علیه السلام بر مناجات شبان‏

Moses saw a shepherd on the way, who was saying, “O God who choosest (whom Thou wilt), 1720

دید موسی یک شبانی را به راه ** کاو همی‏گفت ای خدا و ای اله‏

Where art Thou, that I may become Thy servant and sew Thy shoes and comb Thy head?

تو کجایی تا شوم من چاکرت ** چارقت دوزم کنم شانه سرت‏

That I may wash Thy clothes and kill Thy lice and bring milk to Thee, O worshipful One;

جامه‏ات شویم شپشهایت کشم ** شیر پیشت آورم ای محتشم‏

That I may kiss Thy little hand and rub Thy little foot, (and when) bedtime comes I may sweep Thy little room,

دستکت بوسم بمالم پایکت ** وقت خواب آید بروبم جایکت‏