Rumi's Masnavi - (If) thou dost not recognise the necessity and (real) existence of that (flight to God), yet in the end thou wilt confess that it was necessary.”

(If) thou dost not recognise the necessity and (real) existence of that (flight to God), yet in the end thou wilt confess that it was necessary.”

تو ندانی واجبی آن و هست ** هم تو گویی آخر آن واجب بدست

He (the prophet) is thou, but not this (unreal) “thou”: (he is) that “thou” which in the end is conscious of escape (from the world of illusion).

او توست اما نه این تو آن توست ** که در آخر واقف بیرون‌شوست

Thy last (unreal) “thou” has come to thy first (real) “thou” to receive admonition and gifts. 3775

توی آخر سوی توی اولت ** آمدست از بهر تنبیه و صلت

Thy (real) “thou” is buried in another (unreal “thou”): I am the (devoted) slave of a man who thus (truly) sees himself.

توی تو در دیگری آمد دفین ** من غلام مرد خودبینی چنین

That which the youth sees in the mirror the Elder sees beforehand in the (crude iron) brick.

آنچ در آیینه می‌بیند جوان ** پیر اندر خشت بیند بیش از آن

(The princes said), “We have transgressed the command of our King, we have rebelled against the favours of our father.

ز امر شاه خویش بیرون آمدیم ** با عنایات پدر یاغی شدیم

We have lightly esteemed the King's word and those incomparable favours.

سهل دانستیم قول شاه را ** وان عنایت‌های بی اشباه را

Lo, we all are fallen into the moat, killed and wounded by affliction without combat. 3780

نک در افتادیم در خندق همه ** کشته و خسته‌ی بلا بی ملحمه

We relied on our own intelligence and wisdom, so that this tribulation has come to pass.

تکیه بر عقل خود و فرهنگ خویش ** بودمان تا این بلا آمد به پیش

We regarded ourselves as being without disease and emancipated (from fear of death), just as one suffering from phthisis regards himself.

بی‌مرض دیدیم خویش و بی ز رق ** آنچنان که خویش را بیمار دق