Rumi's Masnavi - You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of those hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished;

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of those hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished;

تو ز صد ینبوع شربت می‌کشی ** هرچه زان صد کم شود کاهد خوشی

(But) when the sublime Fountain gushes from within (you), no longer need you steal from the (other) fountains.

چون بجوشید از درون چشمه‌ی سنی ** ز استراق چشمه‌ها گردی غنی

Since your eye is rejoiced by water and earth, heart's sorrow is the payment for this joy.

قرةالعینت چو ز آب و گل بود ** راتبه‌ی این قره درد دل بود

When (the supply of) water comes to a fortress from outside, it is more than enough in times of peace; 3600

قلعه را چون آب آید از برون ** در زمان امن باشد بر فزون

(But) when the enemy forms a ring round that (fortress), in order that he may drown them (the garrison) in blood,

چونک دشمن گرد آن حلقه کند ** تا که اندر خونشان غرقه کند

The (hostile) troops cut off the outside water, that (the defenders of) the fortress may have no refuge from them.

آب بیرون را ببرند آن سپاه ** تا نباشد قلعه را زانها پناه

At that time a briny well inside (the walls) is better than a hundred sweet rivers outside.

آن زمان یک چاه شوری از درون ** به ز صد جیحون شیرین از برون

The Cutter of cords (Death) and the armies of Death come, like December, to cut the boughs and leaves (of the body),

قاطع الاسباب و لشکرهای مرگ ** هم‌چو دی آید به قطع شاخ و برگ

(And then) there is no succour for them in the world from Spring, except perchance the Spring of the Beloved's face in the soul. 3605

در جهان نبود مددشان از بهار ** جز مگر در جان بهار روی یار

The Earth is entitled “the Abode of delusion” because she draws back her foot (and deserts you) on the day of passage.

زان لقب شد خاک را دار الغرور ** کو کشد پا را سپس یوم العبور