Rumi's Masnavi - To whom are you saying this? To your paternal and maternal uncles? Are the body and (its) needs among the attributes of the Lord of glory?

To whom are you saying this? To your paternal and maternal uncles? Are the body and (its) needs among the attributes of the Lord of glory? 1735

با که می‏گویی تو این با عم و خال ** جسم و حاجت در صفات ذو الجلال‏

(Only) he that is waxing and growing drinks milk: (only) he that has need of feet puts on shoes.

شیر او نوشد که در نشو و نماست ** چارق او پوشد که او محتاج پاست‏

And if these words of yours are (meant) for His servant, of whom God said, ‘He is I and I myself am he’;

ور برای بنده‏ش است این گفت‏وگو ** آن که حق گفت او من است و من خود او

(For him) of whom He (God) said, ‘Verily, I was sick and thou didst not visit Me,’ (that is), ‘I became ill, not he (the sick man) alone’;

آن که گفت انی مرضت لم تعد ** من شدم رنجور او تنها نشد

(For him) who has become seeing by Me and hearing by Me— this (talk of yours) is foolish nonsense even in regard to that servant.

آن که بی‏یسمع و بی‏یبصر شده ست ** در حق آن بنده این هم بی‏هده ست‏

To speak irreverently to one chosen of God causes the heart (spirit) to perish and keeps the page (record) black. 1740

بی‏ادب گفتن سخن با خاص حق ** دل بمیراند سیه دارد ورق‏

If you should call a man ‘Fátima’—though men and women are all of one kind—

گر تو مردی را بخوانی فاطمه ** گر چه یک جنسند مرد و زن همه‏

He will seek to murder you, so far as it is possible (for him), albeit he is good-natured and forbearing and quiet.

قصد خون تو کند تا ممکن است ** گر چه خوش خو و حلیم و ساکن است‏

(The name) Fátima is (a term of) praise in regard to women, (but) if you address it to a man, ’tis (like) the blow of a spearhead.

فاطمه مدح است در حق زنان ** مرد را گویی بود زخم سنان‏

Hand and foot are (terms of) praise in relation to us; in relation to the holiness of God they are pollution.

دست و پا در حق ما استایش است ** در حق پاکی حق آلایش است‏