Rumi's Masnavi - The excellence of that mosque (which the prophets build) is not from earth and stone, but (because) there is no greed or enmity in its builder.

The excellence of that mosque (which the prophets build) is not from earth and stone, but (because) there is no greed or enmity in its builder.

فضل آن مسجد خاک و سنگ نیست ** لیک در بناش حرص و جنگ نیست

Their Books are not as the books of others, nor their mosques nor their means of livelihood nor their houses and homes, 1140

نه کتبشان مثل کتب دیگران ** نی مساجدشان نی کسب وخان و مان

Nor their observance of respect nor their anger nor their chastisement nor their slumber nor their reasoning nor their discourse.

نه ادبشان نه غضبشان نه نکال ** نه نعاس و نه قیاس و نه مقال

To each one of them belongs a different glory: (in each of them) the bird, their spirit, flies with a different wing.

هر یکیشان را یکی فری دگر ** مرغ جانشان طایر از پری دگر

The heart is trembling at mention of their (high) estate: their actions are the qibla (to which we turn for guidance) of our actions.

دل همی لرزد ز ذکر حالشان ** قبله‌ی افعال ما افعالشان

The eggs laid by their bird (spirit) are golden: at midnight their spirit hath beheld the dawn.

مرغشان را بیضه‌ها زرین بدست ** نیم‌شب جانشان سحرگه بین شدست

Whatsoever I say with (all) my soul in praise of the company (of the prophets), I have depreciated (them): I have become a disparager of the company. 1145

هر چه گویم من به جان نیکوی قوم ** نقص گفتم گشته ناقص‌گوی قوم

O ye noble. (seekers of God), build “the Farther Mosque,” for Solomon hath returned—and peace (be with you)!

مسجد اقصی بسازید ای کرام ** که سلیمان باز آمد والسلام

And if the demons and genies refuse this (service)’, the angels will drag them all into bondage.

ور ازین دیوان و پریان سر کشند ** جمله را املاک در چنبر کشند

(If) the demon once make a false step on account of deceit and hypocrisy, the whip comes (down) on his head like lightning.

دیو یک دم کژ رود از مکر و زرق ** تازیانه آیدش بر سر چو برق