Rumi's Masnavi - He (the other) said, ‘When a base and a genuine coin boast, saying (to each other), “Thou art base; I am good and valuable,”

He (the other) said, ‘When a base and a genuine coin boast, saying (to each other), “Thou art base; I am good and valuable,”

گفت چون قلبی و نقدی دم زنند ** که تو قلبی من تکویم ارجمند

Fire is the final test: (the test is) that these two rivals should be dropped into the fire.

هست آتش امتحان آخرین ** کاندر آتش در فتند این دو قرین

(Then) the vulgar and the elect will become acquainted with their (real) state and will advance from opinion and doubt to certain knowledge.

عام و خاص از حالشان عالم شوند ** از گمان و شک سوی ایقان روند

Water and fire, O (dear) soul, are the test for the pure and the base coin that is hidden.

آب و آتش آمد ای جان امتحان ** نقد و قلبی را که آن باشد نهان

Let me and thee, both of us, go into the fire and become a lasting proof for the perplexed. 2860

تا من و تو هر دو در آتش رویم ** حجت باقی حیرانان شویم

Let me and thee, both of us, fall into the sea, for thou and I are a sign unto this multitude.’

تا من و تو هر دو در بحر اوفتیم ** که من و تو این کره را آیتیم

Even so they did and entered the fire: both cast themselves upon the heat of the fire.

هم‌چنان کردند و در آتش شدند ** هر دو خود را بر تف آتش زدند

The God-proclaiming man who engaged in controversy was saved, while that bastard (impostor) was burnt in the fire.

از خدا گوینده مرد مدعی ** رست و سوزید اندر آتش آن دعی

Hear from the muezzin this announcement, to the confusion of the foolish transgressors,

از مذن بشنو این اعلام را ** کوری افزون‌روان خام را

That this name (Mohammed) has not been burnt (destroyed) by Death, since its bearer was a prince and most noble. 2865

که نسوزیدست این نام از اجل ** کش مسمی صدر بودست و اجل