Rumi's Masnavi - If those mysteries (of spiritual poverty) are in the traveller's heart, knowledge of the mystery is not yet possessed by the traveller.

If those mysteries (of spiritual poverty) are in the traveller's heart, knowledge of the mystery is not yet possessed by the traveller. 1065

در دل سالک اگر هست آن رموز ** رمزدانی نیست سالک را هنوز

(Let him wait) until the expansion (illumination) of his heart shall make it (full of) the Light: then God saith, “Did not We expand …?

تا دلش را شرح آن سازد ضیا ** پس الم نشرح بفرماید خدا

For We have given thee the expansion (illumination) within thy breast, We have put the expansion into thy breast.”

که درون سینه شرحت داده‌ایم ** شرح اندر سینه‌ات بنهاده‌ایم

Thou art still seeking it from outside; thou art a source of milk: how art thou a milker of others?

تو هنوز از خارج آن را طالبی ** محلبی از دیگران چون حالبی

There is an illimitable fountain of milk within thee: why art thou seeking milk from the pail?

چشمه‌ی شیرست در تو بی‌کنار ** تو چرا می‌شیر جویی از تغار

O lake, thou hast a channel to the Sea: be ashamed to seek water from the pool; 1070

منفذی داری به بحر ای آبگیر ** ننگ دار از آب جستن از غدیر

For did not We expand…? Again, hast not thou the expansion? How art thou become a seeker of the expansion and a mendicant?

که الم نشرح نه شرحت هست باز ** چون شدی تو شرح‌جو و کدیه‌ساز

Contemplate the expansion of the heart within (thee), lest there come the reproach, Do not ye see?

در نگر در شرح دل در اندرون ** تا نیاید طعنه‌ی لا تبصرون

Commentary on “And He is with you.”

تفسیر و هو معکم

There is a basket full of loaves on the crown of thy head, and thou art begging a crust of bread from door to door.

یک سپد پر نان ترا بی‌فرق سر ** تو همی خواهی لب نان در به در

Attend to thine own head, abandon giddy-headedness; go, knock at the door of thy heart: why art thou (knocking) at every door?

در سر خود پیچ هل خیره‌سری ** رو در دل زن چرا بر هر دری