Rumi's Masnavi - Then he would say again, “When had Adam, the kind and generous, done an injury to Iblís?

Then he would say again, “When had Adam, the kind and generous, done an injury to Iblís?

باز می‏گفت آدم با لطف وجود ** کی بر آن ابلیس جوری کرده بود

What was done by man to snake and scorpion that they wish (to inflict) death and pain upon him? 230

آدمی مر مار و کژدم را چه کرد ** کاو همی‏خواهد مر او را مرگ و درد

To rend is the instinct of the wolf: after all, this envy is conspicuous in mankind.”

گرگ را خود خاصیت بدریدن است ** این حسد در خلق آخر روشن است‏

Again he would say, “It is wrong thus to think evil: why have I such thoughts against my brother?”

باز می‏گفت این گمان بد خطاست ** بر برادر این چنین ظنم چراست‏

Then he would say, “Prudence consists in your thinking evil: how shall he that thinks no evil remain unhurt?”

باز گفتی حزم سوء الظن تست ** هر که بد ظن نیست کی ماند درست‏

The Súfí was in (this) anxiety, and (meanwhile) the ass was in such a plight that—may it befall our enemies!

صوفی اندر وسوسه و آن خر چنان ** که چنین بادا جز ای دشمنان‏

That poor ass was amidst earth and stones, with his saddle crooked and his halter torn, 235

آن خر مسکین میان خاک و سنگ ** کژ شده پالان دریده پالهنگ‏

Killed (exhausted) by the journey, without fodder all the night long, now at the last gasp and now perishing.

خسته از ره جمله‏ی شب بی‏علف ** گاه در جان کندن و گه در تلف‏

All night the ass was repeating, “O God, I give up the barley; (but am I to have) less than one handful of straw?”

خر همه شب ذکر می‏کرد ای اله ** جو رها کردم کم از یک مشت کاه‏

With mute eloquence he was saying, “O Shaykhs, (have) some pity, for I am consumed (with anguish) because of this raw impudent rogue.”

با زبان حال می‏گفت ای شیوخ ** رحمتی که سوختم زین خام شوخ‏