Rumi's Masnavi - Similarly, the planting of the garden is the accident; the produce (of the garden) became the substance: take ( it and) behold the object!

Similarly, the planting of the garden is the accident; the produce (of the garden) became the substance: take ( it and) behold the object!

هست آن بستان نشاندن هم عرض ** گشت جوهر کشت بستان نک غرض‏

Regard, also, the practice of alchemy as the accident; if a substance is produced by that alchemy, bring (it into view).

هم عرض دان کیمیا بردن بکار ** جوهری ز آن کیمیا گر شد بیار

Burnishing is the accident, O prince; from this accident is born the substance, purity. 955

صیقلی کردن عرض باشد شها ** زین عرض جوهر همی‏زاید صفا

Do not say, then, ‘I have done deeds’; show the income (fruit) of those accidents, do not evade (my request).

پس مگو که من عملها کرده‏ام ** دخل آن اعراض را بنما مرم‏

This attribution of qualities is (only) an accident. Be silent: do not kill for sacrifice the goat's shadow!”

این صفت کردن عرض باشد خمش ** سایه‏ی بز را پی قربان مکش‏

The slave said, “O King, the mind cannot but despair if you say that accidents are not carried over.

گفت شاها بی‏قنوط عقل نیست ** گر تو فرمایی عرض را نقل نیست‏

O King, there is nothing but despair for the servant (of God), if the accident that has gone is not coming back.

پادشاها جز که یاس بنده نیست ** گر عرض کان رفت باز آینده نیست‏

If there were no carrying over and resurrection of accidents, action would be vain and words (mere) babble. 960

گر نبودی مر عرض را نقل و حشر ** فعل بودی باطل و اقوال فشر

These accidents are carried over in another guise: the resurrection of everything mortal is another (mode of) existence.

این عرضها نقل شد لونی دگر ** حشر هر فانی بود کونی دگر

The carrying over of everything is just as befits it: what befits the herd is its drover.

نقل هر چیزی بود هم لایقش ** لایق گله بود هم سایقش‏