Rumi's Masnavi - (Go to) such-and-such a domed building in which there is a martyr's shrine, with its back to the town and its gate towards the desert.

(Go to) such-and-such a domed building in which there is a martyr's shrine, with its back to the town and its gate towards the desert. 1940

آن فلان قبه که در وی مشهدست ** پشت او در شهر و در در فدفدست

Turn your back to it and face the qibla (Mecca) and then let loose an arrow from your bow.

پشت با وی کن تو رو در قبله آر ** وانگهان از قوس تیری بر گذار

When you have shot the arrow from your bow, O fortunate one, dig up the place where your arrow fell.”

چون فکندی تیر از قوس ای سعاد ** بر کن آن موضع که تیرت اوفتاد

Thereupon the youth fetched a strongbow and let fly an arrow into the expanse of (aerial) space,

پس کمان سخت آورد آن فتی ** تیر پرانید در صحن فضا

And quickly and with great joy brought a pick-axe and mattock and dug up the spot where his arrow had fallen;

زو تبر آورد و بیل او شاد شاد ** کند آن موضع که تیرش اوفتاد

(But) both he and the mattock and pick-axe were worn out (in vain efforts), and he found not even a trace of the hidden treasure. 1945

کند شد هم او و هم بیل و تبر ** خود ندید از گنج پنهانی اثر

Every day in like fashion he was shooting arrows, but never getting to know the situation of the treasure.

هم‌چنین هر روز تیر انداختی ** لیک جای گنج را نشناختی

Since he made this his continual practice, a whispered rumour arose in the city and (among) the people.

چونک این را پیشه کرد او بر دوام ** فجفجی در شهر افتاد و عوام

How the news of this treasure became known and reached the ears of the king.

فاش شدن خبر این گنج و رسیدن به گوش پادشاه

Then the party (of informers) who lay in ambush gave information of this to the king,

پس خبر کردند سلطان را ازین ** آن گروهی که بدند اندر کمین

And submitted the matter (to him) secretly, saying that such-and-such an one had found a treasure-scroll.

عرضه کردند آن سخن را زیردست ** که فلانی گنج‌نامه یافتست