Rumi's Masnavi - The pounding of myrobalan and bastard myrobalan—by reason of that destruction they become the means of restoring the body (to health).

The pounding of myrobalan and bastard myrobalan—by reason of that destruction they become the means of restoring the body (to health).

آن هلیله و آن بلیله کوفتن ** زان تلف گردند معموری تن

Until you crush wheat in the mill, how will our table be garnished with it?

تا نکوبی گندم اندر آسیا ** کی شود آراسته زان خوان ما

(The obligation of gratitude for) that bread and salt (of thine) demanded that I should deliver thee, O fish, from the net.

آن تقاضا کرد آن نان و نمک ** که ز شستت وا رهانم ای سمک

If thou accept the counsel of Moses, thou wilt escape from such an evil infinite net. 2355

گر پذیری پند موسی وا رهی ** از چنین شست بد نامنتهی

Inasmuch as thou hast made thyself the slave of sensuality, thou hast made a petty worm into a dragon.

بس که خود را کرده‌ای بنده‌ی هوا ** کرمکی را کرده‌ای تو اژدها

I have brought a dragon for (thy) dragon, that I may correct (thy dragon's) breath by (my dragon's) breath,

اژدها را اژدها آورده‌ام ** تا با صلاح آورم من دم به دم

So that the breath of that one may be defeated by the breath of this one, and that my serpent may destroy that dragon (of thine).

تا دم آن از دم این بشکند ** مار من آن اژدها را بر کند

If thou submittest, thou art freed from two serpents; otherwise, it (thy dragon) will bring thy spirit to utter perdition.”

گر رضا دادی رهیدی از دو مار ** ورنه از جانت برآرد آن دمار

He (Pharaoh) said, “In truth, thou art an exceedingly cunning sorcerer, for by craft thou hast introduced duality (disunion) here. 2360

گفت الحق سخت استا جادوی ** که در افکندی به مکر اینجا دوی

Thou hast made the unanimous people into two factions: sorcery makes fissures in rock and mountain.”

خلق یک‌دل را تو کردی دو گروه ** جادوی رخنه کند در سنگ و کوه