Rumi's Masnavi - (He that is) thine is with thee, and thou art conscious of this. O (thou who art exalted as the) sky, how long wilt thou traverse the (low) earth?”

(He that is) thine is with thee, and thou art conscious of this. O (thou who art exalted as the) sky, how long wilt thou traverse the (low) earth?”

آن تو با تست و تو واقف برین ** آسمانا چند پیمایی زمین

Moses said, “Do not make this reproach (against me), do not waylay the Sun and the Moon.

گفت موسی این ملامت کم کنید ** آفتاب و ماه را کم ره زنید

I will fare as far as the meeting-place of the two seas, that (afterwards) I may be accompanied by the Sovereign of the time.

می‌روم تا مجمع البحرین من ** تا شوم مصحوب سلطان زمن

I will make Khizr a means to (the achievement of) my purpose: (either) that, or I will go onward and journey by night a long while.

اجعل الخضر لامری سببا ** ذاک او امضی و اسری حقبا

I will fly with wings and pinions for years: what are years? For thousands of years.” 1970

سالها پرم بپر و بالها ** سالها چه بود هزاران سالها

(He said) “I will fare,” meaning, “Is it not worth that (toilsome journey)? Do not deem the passion for the Beloved to be less than the passion for bread (worldly goods).”

می‌روم یعنی نمی‌ارزد بدان ** عشق جانان کم مدان از عشق نان

This discourse hath no end, O uncle. (Now) tell the story of Daqúqí.

این سخن پایان ندارد ای عمو ** داستان آن دقوقی را بگو

Resuming the story of Daqúqí.

بازگشتن به قصه‌ی دقوقی

That Daqúqí, God have mercy on him, said: “I travelled a long time between His two horizons.

آن دقوقی رحمة الله علیه ** گفت سافرت مدی فی خافقیه

Years and months I went on my journey for love of the Moon, unconscious of the way, lost in God.”

سال و مه رفتم سفر از عشق ماه ** بی‌خبر از راه حیران در اله

(Some one asked him), “(Why) dost thou go bare-foot over thorns and stones?” He said, “I am bewildered and beside myself and crazed.” 1975

پا برهنه می‌روی بر خار و سنگ ** گفت من حیرانم و بی خویش و دنگ