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

(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

For that vision is luminous, while these (sunbeams) are igneous: fire is very dark in comparison with light.

که آن نظر نوری و این ناری بود ** نار پیش نور بس تاری بود

The miraculous gifts and illumination of Shaykh ‘Abdullah Maghribí, may God sanctify his spirit.

کرامات و نور شیخ عبدالله مغربی قدس الله سره

Shaykh ‘Abdullah Maghribí said, “During sixty years I never perceived in night the quality of night.

گفت عبدالله شیخ مغربی ** شصت سال از شب ندیدم من شبی

During sixty years I never experienced any darkness, neither by day nor by night nor from infirmity.”

من ندیدم ظلمتی در شصت سال ** نه به روز و نه به شب نه ز اعتلال

The Súfís declared his words to be true: “During the night we would follow him 600

صوفیان گفتند صدق قال او ** شب همی‌رفتیم در دنبال او