Rumi's Masnavi - (’Tis) a spiritual priority, unqualified and unconditioned. Have you seen the prior and the posterior without duality (have you seen them to be one)?

(’Tis) a spiritual priority, unqualified and unconditioned. Have you seen the prior and the posterior without duality (have you seen them to be one)?

سبق بی‌چون و چگونه‌ی معنوی ** سابق و مسبوق دیدی بی‌دوی

If you have not seen them (as one), that is because of feeble understanding; for the minds of God's creatures are (but) a single grain of that mine. 3745

گر ندیدی آن بود از فهم پست ** که عقول خلق زان کان یک جوست

Lay the blame on yourself, not on the evidences of the (true) Religion: how should the bird of clay reach the sky of the (true) Religion?

عیب بر خود نه نه بر آیات دین ** کی رسد بر چرخ دین مرغ گلین

The bird's lofty soaring-place is (only) the air, since its origin is from lust and sensuality.

مرغ را جولانگه عالی هواست ** زانک نشو او ز شهوت وز هواست

Therefore be dumbfounded without nay or yea, in order that a litter may come from (the Divine) Mercy to carry you.

پس تو حیران باش بی‌لا و بلی ** تا ز رحمت پیشت آید محملی

Forasmuch as you are too dull to apprehend these wonders (of God), if you say “yea” you will be prevaricating;

چون ز فهم این عجایب کودنی ** گر بلی گویی تکلف می‌کنی

And if you say “nay,” the “nay” will behead (undo) you: on account of that “nay” (the Divine) Wrath will shut your (spiritual) window. 3750

ور بگویی نی زند نی گردنت ** قهر بر بندد بدان نی روزنت

Be, then, only dumbfounded and distraught, nothing else, that God's aid may come in from before and behind.

پس همین حیران و واله باش و بس ** تا درآید نصر حق از پیش و پس

When you have become dumbfounded and crazed and naughted, you have said with mute eloquence, “Lead us.”

چونک حیران گشتی و گیج و فنا ** با زبان حال گفتی اهدنا

It (the wrath of God) is mighty, mighty; but when you begin to tremble, that mighty (wrath) becomes assuaged and equable,

زفت زفتست و چو لرزان می‌شوی ** می‌شود آن زفت نرم و مستوی