Rumi's Masnavi - 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.

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

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

Her (the World's) breathing hath made these knots tight: seek, then, the breathing of the unique Creator,

In order that “I breathed of My spirit into him” may deliver thee from this (sorcery) and say (to thee), “Come higher!”

The breathing of sorcery is not consumed save by the breathing of God: this (the former) is the breathing of (Divine) wrath, (while) that (the latter) exhalation is the breathing of (Divine) love.

His mercy is prior to His wrath: (if) thou desirest priority (in spiritual rank), go, seek that (attribute) which is prior, 3205

That thou mayst attain unto the souls that are wedded; for lo, this, O ensorcelled prince, is thy way of escape.

With the existence of the old woman, there can be no undoing (of the knots), (whilst thou art) in the net and in the arms of that (paramour) full of blandishments.

Hath not the Lamp of the peoples called this world and that world the two fellow-wives (who are always quarrelling with each other)?

Therefore union with this (world) is separation from that (world): the health of this body is the sickness of the spirit.