Rumi's Masnavi - The dove became secure from the talons of the hawk, the sheep took no precaution against the wolf.

The dove became secure from the talons of the hawk, the sheep took no precaution against the wolf.

شد کبوتر ایمن از چنگال باز ** گوسفند از گرگ ناورد احتراز

He (Solomon) became an arbitrator between enemies: he became a (means of establishing) oneness between the creatures that fly with wings.

او میانجی شد میان دشمنان ** اتحادی شد میان پر زنان‏

Thou art running after grain, like an ant. Hark! seek for Solomon! Why art thou still astray?

تو چو موری بهر دانه می‏دوی ** هین سلیمان جو چه می‏باشی غوی‏

To the seeker of grain his grain becomes a snare, but the seeker of Solomon may have both (Solomon and the grain). 3705

دانه جو را دانه‏اش دامی شود ** و آن سلیمان جوی را هر دو بود

In these latter days the soul-birds have no security from each other for a moment;

مرغ جانها را در این آخر زمان ** نیستشان از همدگر یک دم امان‏

(Yet) even in our epoch there is a Solomon who would give (us) peace and not suffer our injustice to continue.

هم سلیمان هست اندر دور ما ** کاو دهد صلح و نماند جور ما

Call to mind (the text), There is no people down to (the words) but in the past a warner dwelt among them.

قول إن من أمة را یاد گیر ** تا به إلا و خلا فیها نذیر

God said that verily there has never been a people devoid of a vicar of God and a man of spiritual power;

گفت خود خالی نبوده ست امتی ** از خلیفه‏ی حق و صاحب همتی‏

And he makes the soul-birds so unanimous that, in respect of sincerity, he purges them of (all) guile and rancour. 3710

مرغ جانها را چنان یکدل کند ** کز صفاشان بی‏غش و بی‏غل کند

They become (as) kind as a mother: he (Mohammed) said of the Moslems, “(They are as) one soul.”

مشفقان گردند همچون والده ** مسلمون را گفت نفس واحده‏