Rumi's Masnavi - If we have spoken faultily, do Thou correct it: Thou art the Corrector, O Thou (who art the) Sultan of speech.

If we have spoken faultily, do Thou correct it: Thou art the Corrector, O Thou (who art the) Sultan of speech.

گر خطا گفتیم اصلاحش تو کن ** مصلحی تو ای تو سلطان سخن‏

Thou hast the alchemy whereby Thou mayst transmute it, and though it be a river of blood, mayst make it a Nile.

کیمیا داری که تبدیلش کنی ** گر چه جوی خون بود نیلش کنی‏

Such alchemical operations are Thy work, such elixirs are Thy secrets. 695

این چنین میناگریها کار تست ** این چنین اکسیرها اسرار تست‏

Thou didst beat water and earth together: from water and clay Thou didst mould the body of Adam.

آب را و خاک را بر هم زدی ** ز آب و گل نقش تن آدم زدی‏

Thou gavest him (Man) lineage and wife and uncles, maternal and paternal, with a thousand thoughts and joys and griefs.

نسبتش دادی و جفت و خال و عم ** با هزار اندیشه و شادی و غم‏

Again, to some Thou hast given deliverance: Thou hast parted them from this grief and joy;

باز بعضی را رهایی داده‏ای ** زین غم و شادی جدایی داده‏ای‏

Thou hast borne them away from kindred and relatives and (their own) nature, Thou hast made every fair thing foul in his (such a one's) eyes.

برده‏ای از خویش و پیوند و سرشت ** کرده‏ای در چشم او هر خوب زشت‏

He spurns all that is perceived by the senses, and leans for support on that which is invisible. 700

هر چه محسوس است او رد می‏کند ** و انچه ناپیداست مسند می‏کند

His love is manifest and his Beloved is hidden: the Friend is outside (of the world), (but) His fascination is in the world.

عشق او پیدا و معشوقش نهان ** یار بیرون فتنه‏ی او در جهان‏

Give up this (belief). Loves (felt) for what is endued with form have not as their object the (outward) form or the lady's face.

این رها کن عشقهای صورتی ** نیست بر صورت نه بر روی ستی‏