Rumi's Masnavi - You are fire and naphtha: you are fire: I cannot help being burned by you. Who is there whose raiment is not torn to pieces by your hand?

You are fire and naphtha: you are fire: I cannot help being burned by you. Who is there whose raiment is not torn to pieces by your hand?

آتشی از تو نسوزم چاره نیست ** کیست کز دست تو جامه‏ش پاره نیست‏

Inasmuch as it is your nature, O fire, to be a cause of burning, there is no help but you must burn something. 2655

طبعت ای آتش چو سوزانیدنی است ** تا نسوزانی تو چیزی چاره نیست‏

This is God's curse (on you), that He makes you burn (things) and makes you the master of all thieves.

لعنت این باشد که سوزانت کند ** اوستاد جمله دزدانت کند

You have spoken with God and heard (Him speak) face to face: what should I be (able to do) before your deceit, O enemy?

با خدا گفتی شنیدی رو برو ** من چه باشم پیش مکرت ای عدو

Your stock of knowledge is like the sound of (the fowler's) whistle: it is the cry of birds, but it is bird-ensnaring.

معرفتهای تو چون بانگ صفیر ** بانگ مرغانی است لیکن مرغ گیر

That (whistle) has waylaid myriads of birds, the bird (in each case) being duped (by the fancy) that a friend is come.

صد هزاران مرغ را آن ره زده ست ** مرغ غره کاشنایی آمده ست‏

When it hears in the air the sound of the whistle, it comes (down) from the air and is made captive here. 2660

در هوا چون بشنود بانگ صفیر ** از هوا آید شود اینجا اسیر

Through your deceit the people of Noah are in lamentation: they have hearts charred and bosoms (torn) to shreds.

قوم نوح از مکر تو در نوحه‏اند ** دل کباب و سینه شرحه شرحه‏اند

You gave ‘Ád in this world to the wind (of destruction): you cast (them) into torment and sorrows.

عاد را تو باد دادی در جهان ** در فگندی در عذاب و اندهان‏

Through you was the stoning of the people of Lot: through you were they sunk in the black rain-water.

از تو بود آن سنگسار قوم لوط ** در سیاه آبه ز تو خوردند غوط