Rumi's Masnavi - I said, “O heart, seek the Universal Mirror, go to the Sea: the business will not succeed (be successfully accomplished) by means of the river.”

I said, “O heart, seek the Universal Mirror, go to the Sea: the business will not succeed (be successfully accomplished) by means of the river.”

گفتم ای دل آینه‏ی کلی بجو ** رو به دریا کار برناید به جو

In this quest thy slave (at last) arrived at thy dwelling-place, (as) the pains (of childbirth) drew Mary to the palm-tree.

زین طلب بنده به کوی تو رسید ** درد مریم را به خرما بن کشید

When thine eye became an eye for my heart, my blind heart went and became drowned in vision.

دیده‏ی تو چون دلم را دیده شد ** این دل نادیده غرق دیده شد

I saw that thou art the Universal Mirror unto everlasting: I saw my own image in thine eye. 100

آینه‏ی کلی ترا دیدم ابد ** دیدم اندر چشم تو من نقش خود

I said, “At last I have found myself: in his eyes I have found the shining Way.”

گفتم آخر خویش را من یافتم ** در دو چشمش راه روشن یافتم‏

My false instinct said, “Beware! That (image) is (only) thy phantom: distinguish thy essence from thy phantom”;

گفت وهمم کان خیال تست هان ** ذات خود را از خیال خود بدان‏

(But) my image gave voice (spoke) from thine eye (and said), “I am thou and thou art I in (perfect) oneness;

نقش من از چشم تو آواز داد ** که منم تو تو منی در اتحاد

For how should a phantom find the way into this illumined eye which never ceases from (contemplating) the (Divine) realities?”

کاندر این چشم منیر بی‏زوال ** از حقایق راه کی یابد خیال‏

(Thou saidst), “If you behold your image in the eyes of any other than me, know that ’tis a phantom and reprobate, 105

در دو چشم غیر من تو نقش خود ** گر ببینی آن خیالی دان و رد

Because he (every one except me) is applying (to his eye) the collyrium of nonexistence (unreality) and is imbibing the wine of Satan's illusion-making.

ز آن که سرمه‏ی نیستی در می‏کشد ** باده از تصویر شیطان می‏چشد