Rumi's Masnavi - By that (means) you know whether the wind is the east-wind or the westwind: this (movement of the lion) is the explanation of that occult matter.

By that (means) you know whether the wind is the east-wind or the westwind: this (movement of the lion) is the explanation of that occult matter.

زان شناسی باد را گر آن صباست ** یا دبورست این بیان آن خفاست

This body is like the lion on the banner: thought is causing it to move continually.

این بدن مانند آن شیر علم ** فکر می‌جنباند او را دم به دم

The thought that comes from the east is (as) the (refreshing) east-wind, and that which (comes) from the west is (as) the west-wind fraught with pestilence. 3055

فکر کان از مشرق آید آن صباست ** وآنک از مغرب دبور با وباست

The east of this wind of thought is different; the west of this wind of thought is from Yonder side.

مشرق این باد فکرت دیگرست ** مغرب این باد فکرت زان سرست

The moon is inanimate, and its east is inanimate: the heart's east is the soul of the soul of Soul.

مه جمادست و بود شرقش جماد ** جان جان جان بود شرق فاد

The east of that Sun which illumines the inward part—the sun of day is (only) the husk and reflexion thereof;

شرق خورشیدی که شد باطن‌فروز ** قشر و عکس آن بود خورشید روز

For when the body is dead (and) without the (vital) flame, neither day nor night appears to it;

زآنک چون مرده بود تن بی‌لهب ** پیش او نه روز بنماید نه شب

But though it (the flame) be not (there), (yet) when this (spiritual Sun) is (present) in perfection, it (the Sun) maintains itself intact without night and day, 3060

ور نباشد آن چو این باشد تمام ** بی‌شب و بی روز دارد انتظام

Just as the eye, without moon and sun, sees moon and sun in dream.

هم‌چنانک چشم می‌بیند به خواب ** بی‌مه و خورشید ماه و آفتاب

Since our sleep is the brother of death, O such and such, know (the difference of) that brother from this brother.

نوم ما چون شد اخ الموت ای فلان ** زین برادر آن برادر را بدان