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

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

(The words) He begat not, He was not begotten are appropriate to Him: He is the Creator of begetter and begotten. 1745

لم یلد لم یولد او را لایق است ** والد و مولود را او خالق است‏

Birth is the attribute of everything that is (a) body: whatever is born is on this side of the river,

هر چه جسم آمد ولادت وصف اوست ** هر چه مولود است او زین سوی جوست‏