Rumi's Masnavi - If every heart were hearing the hidden (Divine) revelation, how should there be in the world any words and sounds (to make it known)?

If every heart were hearing the hidden (Divine) revelation, how should there be in the world any words and sounds (to make it known)?

هر دل ار سامع بدی وحی نهان ** حرف و صوتی کی بدی اندر جهان

Though he (the intercessor) is lost in God and headless (devoid of self existence), yet my case is more delicate than that. 2980

گرچه او محو حقست و بی‌سرست ** لیک کار من از آن نازکترست

His act is the act of the king, but to my infirmity the good (which he did) appears to be evil.”

کرده‌ی او کرده‌ی شاهست لیک ** پیش ضعفم بد نماینده‌ست نیک

That which is the very essence of grace to the vulgar becomes wrath to the noble favourites (of God).

آنچ عین لطف باشد بر عوام ** قهر شد بر نازنینان کرام

Much tribulation and pain must the vulgar endure in order that they may be able to perceive the difference;

بس بلا و رنج می‌باید کشید ** عامه را تا فرق را توانند دید

For, O (my) companion in the Cave, these intermediary words are, in the sight of one united (with God), thorns, thorns, thorns.

کین حروف واسطه ای یار غار ** پیش واصل خار باشد خار خار

Much tribulation and pain and waiting were needed in order that that pure spirit might be delivered from the (intermediary) words; 2985

بس بلا و رنج بایست و وقوف ** تا رهد آن روح صافی از حروف

But some (persons) have become more deaf (than others) to this echo; some, again, have become purified and have mounted higher.

لیک بعضی زین صدا کرتر شدند ** باز بعضی صافی و برتر شدند

This tribulation is like the water of the Nile: it is water to the blessed and blood to the damned.

هم‌چو آب نیل آمد این بلا ** سعد را آبست و خون بر اشقیا

The more one descries the end, the more blessed is he: the greater one sees the crop (to be), the more zealously he sows,

هر که پایان‌بین‌تر او مسعودتر ** جدتر او کارد که افزون دید بر