Rumi's Masnavi - If thou shouldst (come to) know our secret, O misleader, (thou wouldst see that) thou art delivering us from pain, O man whose heart is blind.

If thou shouldst (come to) know our secret, O misleader, (thou wouldst see that) thou art delivering us from pain, O man whose heart is blind.

گر بدانی سر ما را ای مضل ** می‌رهانیمان ز رنج ای کوردل

Hark, come and from this quarter behold this organ pealing ‘Oh, would that my people knew!’

هین بیا زین سو ببین کین ارغنون ** می‌زند یا لیت قومی یعلمون

God's bounty hath bestowed on us a Pharaohship, (but) not a perishable one like thy Pharaohship and kingdom.

داد ما را داد حق فرعونیی ** نه چو فرعونیت و ملکت فانیی

Lift up thy head and behold the living and majestic kingdom, O thou who hast been deluded by Egypt and the river Nile. 4125

سر بر آر و ملک بین زنده و جلیل ** ای شده غره به مصر و رود نیل

If thou wilt take leave of this filthy tattered cloak, thou wilt drown the (bodily) Nile in the Nile of the spirit.

گر تو ترک این نجس خرقه کنی ** نیل را در نیل جان غرقه کنی

Hark, O Pharaoh, hold thy hand from (renounce) Egypt: there are a hundred Egypts within the Egypt of the Spirit.

هین بدار از مصر ای فرعون دست ** در میان مصر جان صد مصر هست

Thou sayest to the vulgar, ‘I am a Lord,’ being unaware of the essential natures of both these names.

تو انا رب همی‌گویی به عام ** غافل از ماهیت این هر دو نام

How should a Lord be trembling (with hope or fear) for that which is lorded over? How should one who knows ‘I’ be in bondage to body and soul?

رب بر مربوب کی لرزان بود ** کی انادان بند جسم و جان بود

Lo, we are (the real) ‘I,’ having been freed from (the unreal) ‘I,’ from the ‘I’ that is full of tribulation and trouble. 4130

نک انا ماییم رسته از انا ** از انای پر بلای پر عنا

To thee, O cur, that ‘I’-hood was baleful, (but) in regard to us it was irreversibly ordained felicity.

آن انایی بر تو ای سگ شوم بود ** در حق ما دولت محتوم بود