Rumi's Masnavi - He beat the Súfí when he found him alone; he half killed him and cracked his head.

He beat the Súfí when he found him alone; he half killed him and cracked his head.

کوفت صوفی را چو تنها یافتش ** نیم کشتش کرد و سر بشکافتش‏

Said the Súfí, “Mine is over, but O comrades, take good care of yourselves! 2185

گفت صوفی آن من بگذشت لیک ** ای رفیقان پاس خود دارید نیک‏

Ye regarded me as an alien. Look out! I am not more alien than this scoundrel.

مر مرا اغیار دانستید هان ** نیستم اغیارتر زین قلتبان‏

That (cup) which I have drunk must be drunk by you, and such a draught as this is the due of every cad.”

این چه من خوردم شما را خوردنی است ** وین چنین شربت جزای هر دنی است‏

This world is (like) the mountain, and (all) thy words come back to thee from the echo.

این جهان کوه است و گفت‏وگوی تو ** از صدا هم باز آید سوی تو

After the gardener had finished with the Súfí, he invented a pretext of the same kind as the former,

چون ز صوفی گشت فارغ باغبان ** یک بهانه کرد ز آن پس جنس آن‏

Saying, “O my Sharíf, go to the house, for I have baked (some) thin cakes of bread for breakfast. 2190

کای شریف من برو سوی وثاق ** که ز بهر چاشت پختم من رقاق‏

At the house-door tell Qaymáz to fetch those cakes and the goose.”

بر در خانه بگو قیماز را ** تا بیارد آن رقاق و قاز را

Having sent him off, he said (to the other), “O keen-sighted one, thou art a jurist; this is manifest and sure.

چون به ره کردش بگفت ای تیز بین ** تو فقیهی ظاهر است این و یقین‏

(But) he (thy friend) a Sharíf! ’Tis an absurd claim he is making. Who knows who committed adultery with his mother?

او شریفی می‏کند دعوی سرد ** مادر او را که داند تا که کرد