Rumi's Masnavi - In order that thou mayst be delivered from this witchery and this distress, beg of the Lord of the daybreak that thou mayst say “I take refuge.”

In order that thou mayst be delivered from this witchery and this distress, beg of the Lord of the daybreak that thou mayst say “I take refuge.”

تا رهی زین جادوی و زین قلق ** استعاذت خواه از رب الفلق

The Prophet called this world of thine an enchantress because through her spells she lodged mankind in the pit.

زان نبی دنیات را سحاره خواند ** کو به افسون خلق را در چه نشاند

Beware! The stinking hag hath hot (potent) spells: her hot breath hath made kings captive.

هین فسون گرم دارد گنده پیر ** کرده شاهان را دم گرمش اسیر

She is the witches who blow (on knots) within (thy) breast: she is the (means of) maintaining the knots of sorcery. 3195

در درون سینه نفاثات اوست ** عقده‌های سحر را اثبات اوست

The sorceress, (who is) the World, is a mightily cunning woman: ’tis not in the power of the vulgar to undo her sorcery;

ساحره‌ی دنیا قوی دانا زنیست ** حل سحر او به پای عامه نیست

And if (men's) understandings could loose her knot, how should God have sent the prophets?

ور گشادی عقد او را عقلها ** انبیا را کی فرستادی خدا

Hark, seek one whose breath is pure, a looser of knots, one who knows the mystery of God doeth whatso He willeth.

هین طلب کن خوش‌دمی عقده‌گشا ** رازدان یفعل الله ما یشا

She (the World) hath imprisoned thee, like a fish, in her net: the prince remained (there) one year, and thou sixty.

هم‌چو ماهی بسته است او به شست ** شاه زاده ماند سالی و تو شصت

From (being enmeshed in) her net thou art in tribulation sixty years: neither art thou happy nor (dost thou walk) in the way of the Sunna. 3200

شصت سال از شست او در محنتی ** نه خوشی نه بر طریق سنتی

Thou art a miserable unrighteous man: neither is thy worldly life good (happy) nor art thou delivered from guilt and sins.

فاسقی بدبخت نه دنیات خوب ** نه رهیده از وبال و از ذنوب