Rumi's Masnavi - In order that the prophet Moses might not come forth, he laid on his neck (made himself responsible for) thousands of iniquities and murders.

In order that the prophet Moses might not come forth, he laid on his neck (made himself responsible for) thousands of iniquities and murders.

تا که موسای نبی ناید برون ** کرد در گردن هزاران ظلم و خون‏

He wrought all that bloodshed, and (yet) Moses was born and was made ready for his chastisement.

آن همه خون کرد و موسی زاده شد ** و ز برای قهر او آماده شد

Had he seen the workshop of the Everlasting (God), he would have ceased to move hand or foot in plotting. 770

گر بدیدی کارگاه لا یزال ** دست و پایش خشک گشتی ز احتیال‏

Moses (lay) safe within his (Pharaoh's) house, while outside he was killing the infants in vain,

اندرون خانه‏اش موسی معاف ** و ز برون می‏کشت طفلان را گزاف‏

Even as the sensual man who pampers his body and suspects some one else of a bitter hatred (against him),

همچو صاحب نفس کاو تن پرورد ** بر دگر کس ظن حقدی می‏برد

Saying, “This one is a foe, and that one is envious and an enemy,” (though) in truth his envier and enemy is that body (of his).

کاین عدو و آن حسود و دشمن است ** خود حسود و دشمن او آن تن است‏

He is like Moses, and his body is his Pharaoh: he keeps running (to and fro) outside, asking, “Where is my enemy?”

او چو موسی و تنش فرعون او ** او به بیرون می‏دود که کو عدو

His fleshly soul (is) luxuriating in the house, which is his body, (while) he gnaws his hand in rancour against some one else. 775

نفسش اندر خانه‏ی تن نازنین ** بر دگر کس دست می‏خاید به کین‏

How men blamed a person who killed his mother because he suspected her (of adultery).

ملامت کردن مردم شخصی را که مادرش را کشت به تهمت

A certain man killed his mother in wrath, with blows of a dagger and also with blows of his fist.

آن یکی از خشم مادر را بکشت ** هم به زخم خنجر و هم زخم مشت‏

Some one said to him, “From evil nature you have not borne in mind what is due to motherhood.

آن یکی گفتش که از بد گوهری ** یاد ناوردی تو حق مادری‏