Rumi's Masnavi - Let him who had the best dream eat this (sweetmeat): let the most excellent carry off the share of every one that is excelled (by him).”

Let him who had the best dream eat this (sweetmeat): let the most excellent carry off the share of every one that is excelled (by him).”

هرکه خوابش بهتر این را او خورد ** قسم هر مفضول را افضل برد

He who mounts highest in (the scale of) reason—his eating is (equivalent to) the eating of all (his inferiors).

آنک اندر عقل بالاتر رود ** خوردن او خوردن جمله بود

His luminous spirit is supreme: ’tis enough for the rest of them to tend (cherish) him. 2425

فوق آمد جان پر انوار او ** باقیان را بس بود تیمار او

Since those endowed with (perfect) reason endure for ever, in reality this world is enduring for ever.

عاقلان را چون بقا آمد ابد ** پس به معنی این جهان باقی بود

Then the Jew related his dream (and told them) whither his spirit had wandered during the night.

پس جهود آورد آنچ دیده بود ** تا کجا شب روح او گردیده بود

He said, “Moses met me on the way, (according to the adage) ‘the cat sees a fat sheep's tail in her dreams.’

گفت در ره موسی‌ام آمد به پیش ** گربه بیند دنبه اندر خواب خویش

I followed Moses to Mt Sinai: in the Light (of the Divine Epiphany) all three of us vanished.

در پی موسی شدم تا کوه طور ** هر سه‌مان گشتیم ناپیدا ز نور

All (our) three shadows disappeared in the Sun; after that, there came from the Light an opening of the door (revelation). 2430

هر سه سایه محو شد زان آفتاب ** بعد از آن زان نور شد یک فتح باب

From the heart of that Light another Light sprang up, and then the second (Light) quickly sought to transcend it.

نور دیگر از دل آن نور رست ** پس ترقی جست آن ثانیش چست

Both I and Moses and also Mt Sinai, we were lost, all three, in that effulgence of the (second) Light.

هم من و هم موسی و هم کوه طور ** هر سه گم گشتیم زان اشراق نور