Rumi's Masnavi - (For), like the deaf man, he regarded the (Shaykh's) weeping in the manner of a conformist and was unaware of the cause.

(For), like the deaf man, he regarded the (Shaykh's) weeping in the manner of a conformist and was unaware of the cause.

او مقلدوار هم‌چون مرد کر ** گریه می‌دید و ز موجب بی‌خبر

When he had wept a long while, he paid his respects and departed: the (Shaykh's) favourite disciple came quickly after him,

چون بسی بگریست خدمت کرد و رفت ** از پیش آمد مرید خاص تفت

And said, “O thou who art weeping like a witless cloud in concert with the weeping of the Shaykh (possessed) of insight, 1300

گفت ای گریان چو ابر بی‌خبر ** بر وفاق گریه‌ی شیخ نظر

For God's sake, for God's sake, for God's sake, O loyal disciple, although in (thy) conformity thou art seeking (spiritual) profit,

الله الله الله ای وافی مرید ** گر چه درتقلید هستی مستفید

Take heed not to say, ‘I saw that (spiritual) king weeping, and I wept like him’; for that is denial (of his exalted state).”

تا نگویی دیدم آن شه می‌گریست ** من چو او بگریستم که آن منکریست

A weeping full of ignorance and conformity and (mere) opinion is not like the weeping of that trusted one.

گریه‌ی پر جهل و پر تقلید و ظن ** نیست هم‌چون گریه‌ی آن متمن

Do not judge (one) weeping by the analogy of (another) weeping: ’tis a long way from this weeping to that (weeping).

تو قیاس گریه بر گریه مساز ** هست زین گریه بدان راه دراز

That (weeping) is after a thirty years' (spiritual) warfare: the intellect can never get there. 1305

هست آن از بعد سی‌ساله جهاد ** عقل آنجا هیچ نتواند فتاد

Beyond reason there are a hundred stages: deem not the intellect to be acquainted with that caravan.

هست زان سوی خرد صد مرحله ** عقل را واقف مدان زان قافله

His weeping is neither from sorrow nor from joy: (only) the spirit knows the weeping of (him who is) the fountain of beauties.

گریه‌ی او نه از غمست و نه از فرح ** روح داند گریه‌ی عین الملح