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

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

After that, I saw the mountain break into three pieces when the Light of God surged upon it.

بعد از آن دیدم که که سه شاخ شد ** چونک نور حق درو نفاخ شد

When the Attribute of Majesty was revealed to it, it burst asunder in every direction.

وصف هیبت چون تجلی زد برو ** می‌سکست از هم همی‌شد سو به سو

One piece of the mountain fell towards the sea, and the water bitter as poison was made sweet. 2435

آن یکی شاخ که آمد سوی یم ** گشت شیرین آب تلخ هم‌چو سم

One piece thereof sank into the earth, and a medicinal spring of running water gushed forth,

آن یکی شاخش فرو شد در زمین ** چشمه‌ی دارو برون آمد معین

So that its water became a cure for all the sick by the blessedness of the goodly revelation.

که شفای جمله رنجوران شد آب ** از همایونی وحی مستطاب

The other (third) piece flew at once to the neighbourhood of the Ka‘ba where ‘Arafát was (situated).

آن یکی شاخ دگر پرید زود ** تا جوار کعبه که عرفات بود

When I came back to myself out of that swoon, Sinai was in its place, neither greater nor less (than before);

باز از آن صعقه چو با خود آمدم ** طور بر جا بد نه افزون و نه کم

But under the foot of Moses it was (inwardly) melting like ice: no spur or peak of it remained. 2440

لیک زیر پای موسی هم‌چو یخ ** می‌گدازید او نماندش شاخ و شخ