Rumi's Masnavi - For it may be that the lock of this heart will be opened and that a place will be (granted) to this ugly one at the banquet of the beauteous.

For it may be that the lock of this heart will be opened and that a place will be (granted) to this ugly one at the banquet of the beauteous. 3495

که بود که قفل این دل وا شود ** زشت را در بزم خوبان جا شود

Through thee the deformed may become endowed with beauty, or an Iblís may again become one of the Cherubim;

مسخی از تو صاحب خوبی شود ** یا بلیسی باز کروبی شود

Or, by the august influence of Mary's hand, the withered bough may acquire the fragrance of musk and freshness and fruit.”

یا بفر دست مریم بوی مشک ** یابد و تری و میوه شاخ خشک

Thereupon the Israelite fell to worship and said, “O God who knowest the manifest and the hidden,

سبطی آن دم در سجود افتاد و گفت ** کای خدای عالم جهر و نهفت

To whom but Thee should Thy servant lift his hand? Both the prayer and the answer (to prayer) are from Thee.

جز تو پیش کی بر آرد بنده دست ** هم دعا و هم اجابت از توست

Thou at first givest the desire for prayer, and Thou at last givest likewise the recompense for prayers. 3500

هم ز اول تو دهی میل دعا ** تو دهی آخر دعاها را جزا

Thou art the First and the Last: we between are nothing, a nothing that does not come into (admit of) expression.”

اول و آخر توی ما در میان ** هیچ هیچی که نیاید در بیان

He was speaking in this wise, till he fell into ecstasy and his heart became senseless.

این چنین می‌گفت تا افتاد طشت ** از سر بام و دلش بیهوش گشت

(Whilst engaged) in prayer, he came back to his senses (and witnessed the effect of his prayer): Man shall have nothing but what he hath wrought.

باز آمد او به هوش اندر دعا ** لیس للانسان الا ما سعی

He was (still) praying when suddenly a loud cry and roar burst from the heart of the Egyptian,

در دعا بود او که ناگه نعره‌ای ** از دل قبطی بجست و غره‌ای