Rumi's Masnavi - He said, “Make a circuit round me seven times, and reckon this (to be) better than the circumambulation (of the Ka‘ba) in the pilgrimage;

He said, “Make a circuit round me seven times, and reckon this (to be) better than the circumambulation (of the Ka‘ba) in the pilgrimage;

گفت طوفی کن به گردم هفت بار ** وین نکوتر از طواف حج شمار

And lay those dirhems before me, O generous one. Know that thou hast made the greater pilgrimage and that thy desire has been achieved;

و آن درمها پیش من نه‏ای جواد ** دان که حج کردی و حاصل شد مراد

(That) thou hast (also) performed the lesser pilgrimage and gained the life everlasting; (that) thou hast become pure (sáf) and sped up (the Hill of) Purity (Safá).

عمره کردی عمر باقی یافتی ** صاف گشتی بر صفا بشتافتی‏

By the truth of the Truth (God) whom thy soul hath seen, (I swear) that He hath chosen me above His House.

حق آن حقی که جانت دیده است ** که مرا بر بیت خود بگزیده است‏

Albeit the Ka‘ba is the House of His religious service, my form too, in which I was created, is the House of His inmost consciousness. 2245

کعبه هر چندی که خانه‏ی بر اوست ** خلقت من نیز خانه‏ی سر اوست‏

Never since God made the Ka‘ba hath He gone into it, and none but the Living (God) hath ever gone into this House (of mine).

تا بکرد آن کعبه را در وی نرفت ** و اندر این خانه بجز آن حی نرفت‏

When thou hast seen me, thou hast seen God: thou hast circled round the Ka‘ba of Sincerity.

چون مرا دیدی خدا را دیده‏ای ** گرد کعبه‏ی صدق بر گردیده‏ای‏

To serve me is to obey and glorify God: beware thou think not that God is separate from me.

خدمت من طاعت و حمد خداست ** تا نپنداری که حق از من جداست‏

Open thine eyes well and look on me, that thou mayst behold the Light of God in man.”

چشم نیکو باز کن در من نگر ** تا ببینی نور حق اندر بشر

Báyazíd gave heed to those mystic sayings, and put them in his ear as a golden ring. 2250

بایزید آن نکته‏ها را هوش داشت ** همچو زرین حلقه‏اش در گوش داشت‏