Rumi's Masnavi - From that (Divine) Sun, too, (beams) strike upon a window, but not in the ordinary way and direction.

From that (Divine) Sun, too, (beams) strike upon a window, but not in the ordinary way and direction. 3200

هم از آن خورشید زد بر روزنی ** لیک از راه و سوی معهود نی

Between the Sun and this window there is a way; (but) the (other) windows are not acquainted with it,

در میان شمس و این روزن رهی ** هست روزنها نشد زو آگهی

So that, if a cloud arise and cover the sky, in this window its (the Sun's) light will (still) be coruscating.

تا اگر ابری بر آید چرخ‌پوش ** اندرین روزن بود نورش به جوش

There is familiarity between the window and the Sun, otherwise than (by) the way of this atmosphere and the six directions.

غیر راه این هوا و شش جهت ** در میان روزن و خور مالفت

To praise and glorify him (the Perfect Man) is to glorify God: the fruit is growing out of the essential nature of this tray.

مدحت و تسبیح او تسبیح حق ** میوه می‌روید ز عین این طبق

Apples grow from this basket in fine variety: ’tis no harm if you bestow on it the name ‘tree.’ 3205

سیب روید زین سبد خوش لخت لخت ** عیب نبود گر نهی نامش درخت

Call this basket ‘the Apple-tree,’ for between the two there is a hidden way.

این سبد را تو درخت سیب خوان ** که میان هر دو راه آمد نهان

That which grows from the fruit-bearing Tree—the same kind of fruit grows from this basket.

آنچ روید از درخت بارور ** زین سبد روید همان نوع از ثمر

Therefore regard the basket as the Tree of Fortune and sit happily under the shade (protection) of this basket.

پس سبد را تو درخت بخت بین ** زیر سایه‌ی این سبد خوش می‌نشین

When bread produces looseness (acts as a laxative), why call it bread, O kindly man? Call it scammony.

نان چو اطلاق آورد ای مهربان ** نان چرا می‌گوییش محموده خوان