Rumi's Masnavi - You are saying, “I have eaten rose-sugar,” while the smell of garlic is striking (your hearers) and saying (in effect), “Don't talk nonsense.”

You are saying, “I have eaten rose-sugar,” while the smell of garlic is striking (your hearers) and saying (in effect), “Don't talk nonsense.”

گل‌شکر خوردم همی‌گویی و بوی ** می‌زند از سیر که یافه مگوی

The heart is like unto a great house: the house of the heart hath neighbours concealed (from view):

هست دل ماننده‌ی خانه‌ی کلان ** خانه‌ی دل را نهان همسایگان

Through the window-slit and (crevices in) the walls they observe the hidden thoughts—

از شکاف روزن و دیوارها ** مطلع گردند بر اسرار ما

Through a slit whereof the owner of the house hath no conception and in which he hath no share.

از شکافی که ندارد هیچ وهم ** صاحب خانه و ندارد هیچ سهم

Recite from the Qur’án (the verse which declares) that the Devil and his tribe secretly get scent of (become acquainted with) the (inward) state of humankind, 1780

از نبی بر خوان که دیو و قوم او ** می‌برند از حال انسی خفیه بو

By a way of which humankind are ignorant, because it is not of this sensible (world) or one of these semblances (phenomenal objects).

از رهی که انس از آن آگاه نیست ** زانک زین محسوس و زین اشباه نیست

Do not devise any fraud amongst the assayers: do not address any idle boast to the touchstone, O base spurious coin.

در میان ناقدان زرقی متن ** با محک ای قلب دون لافی مزن

The (spiritual) touchstone hath a way to (know) the genuine and the spurious coin, for God made him the commander of (both) body and heart.

مر محک را ره بود در نقد و قلب ** که خدایش کرد امیر جسم و قلب

Since the devils, notwithstanding their grossnesses, are acquainted with our inmost soul and thought and belief,

چون شیاطین با غلیظیهای خویش ** واقف‌اند از سر ما و فکر و کیش

(And) have a passage (means of penetrating) stealthily within, (so that) we are overthrown by their thievish practices, 1785

مسلکی دارند دزدیده درون ** ما ز دزدیهای ایشان سرنگون