Rumi's Masnavi - (Such) as the mote appears in the presence of the sun, even such is the sun (of this world) in the pure substance (of the Light of God).

(Such) as the mote appears in the presence of the sun, even such is the sun (of this world) in the pure substance (of the Light of God).

چون نماید ذره پیش آفتاب ** هم‌چنانست آفتاب اندر لباب

The sun that becomes resplendent, and before which the (keenest) sight is blunted and dazzled—

آفتابی را که رخشان می‌شود ** دیده پیشش کند و حیران می‌شود

Thou wilt see it as a mote in the light of the Divine Throne, (a mote) beside the illimitable abounding light of the Divine Throne.

هم‌چو ذره بینیش در نور عرش ** پیش نور بی حد موفور عرش

Thou wilt deem it base and lowly and impermanent, (when) strength has come to thine (inward) eye from the Creator.” 590

خوار و مسکین بینی او را بی‌قرار ** دیده را قوت شده از کردگار

(The Divine Light is) the Philosophers' Stone from which a single impression fell on the (primal) vapour, and it (the vapour) became a star;

کیمیایی که ازو یک ماثری ** بر دخان افتاد گشت آن اختری

The unique elixir of which half a gleam struck upon a (region of) darkness and made it the sun;

نادر اکسیری که از وی نیم تاب ** بر ظلامی زد به گردش آفتاب

The marvellous alchemist who by a single operation fastened all these properties on Saturn.

بوالعجب میناگری کز یک عمل ** بست چندین خاصیت را بر زحل

Know, O seeker, that the remaining planets and the spiritual substances are (to be judged) according to the same standard.

باقی اخترها و گوهرهای جان ** هم برین مقیاس ای طالب بدان

The sensuous eye is subject to the sun: seek and find a divine eye, 595

دیده‌ی حسی زبون آفتاب ** دیده‌ی ربانیی جو و بیاب

In order that the beams of the flaming sun may become subject (abased) before that vision;

تا زبون گردد به پیش آن نظر ** شعشعات آفتاب با شرر