Rumi's Masnavi - (And my thought has always been), ‘Such wrath from such a face! Oh, wonderful!’ (whereas) every one (else) has become occupied with (considering) the (secondary) cause (His wrath).

(And my thought has always been), ‘Such wrath from such a face! Oh, wonderful!’ (whereas) every one (else) has become occupied with (considering) the (secondary) cause (His wrath).

کز چنان رویی چنین قهر ای عجب ** هر کسی مشغول گشته در سبب‏

I do not look at the cause (His wrath), which is temporal, inasmuch as the temporal (only) produces something temporal (like itself). 2640

من سبب را ننگرم کان حادث است ** ز انکه حادث حادثی را باعث است‏

I am regarding (His eternally) precedent mercy: whatsoever is temporal I rend in twain.

لطف سابق را نظاره می‏کنم ** هر چه آن حادث دو پاره می‏کنم‏

Grant that my declining to worship (Adam) was from envy; (yet) that envy arises from love (of God), not from denial (of obedience to His command).

ترک سجده از حسد گیرم که بود ** آن حسد از عشق خیزد نز جحود

’Tis certain, all envy arises from love, (for fear) lest another become the companion of the beloved.

هر حسد از دوستی خیزد یقین ** که شود با دوست غیری همنشین‏

Brooding jealousy is the necessary consequence of love, just as saying ‘Live long!’ must follow the sneeze.

هست شرط دوستی غیرت پزی ** همچو شرط عطسه گفتن دیر زی‏

Since there was no play but this on His board, and He said, ‘Play,’ what more can I do? 2645

چون که بر نطعش جز این بازی نبود ** گفت بازی کن چه دانم در فزود

I played the one play (move) that there was, and cast myself into woe.

آن یکی بازی که بد من باختم ** خویشتن را در بلا انداختم‏

Even in woe I am tasting His delights: I am mated by Him, mated by Him, mated by Him!

در بلا هم می‏چشم لذات او ** مات اویم مات اویم مات او

How shall any one, O noble sir, in (this world of) six directions deliver himself from the shashdara (the place with six doors)?

چون رهاند خویشتن را ای سره ** هیچ کس در شش جهت از شش دره‏