Rumi's Masnavi - The door would become now the window, now the sunbeams; the earth would become now the wheat, now the bushel.

The door would become now the window, now the sunbeams; the earth would become now the wheat, now the bushel.

باب گه روزن شدی گاه شعاع ** خاک گه گندم شدی و گاه صاع

In (men's) eyes the heavens are very old and threadbare; in his eye ’twasa new creation at every moment.

در نظرها چرخ بس کهنه و قدید ** پیش چشمش هر دمی خلق جدید

When the beauteous spirit is delivered from the body, no doubt an eye like this will be conferred upon it by (Divine) destiny.

روح زیبا چونک وا رست از جسد ** از قضا بی شک چنین چشمش رسد

A hundred thousand mysteries were revealed to him: he beheld that which the eyes of the initiated behold. 4645

صد هزاران غیب پیشش شد پدید ** آنچ چشم محرمان بیند بدید

He opened (the inward) eye (and gazed) on the (ideal) form of that which he had (only) read in books.

آنچ او اندر کتب بر خوانده بود ** چشم را در صورت آن بر گشود

From the dust of the mighty King's horse he obtained a precious collyrium for his eyesight.

از غبار مرکب آن شاه نر ** یافت او کحل عزیزی در بصر

In such a garden of flowers he was trailing his skirt, while every part of him was crying, “Is there any more?”

برچنین گلزار دامن می‌کشید ** جزو جزوش نعره زن هل من مزید

The flowers that grow from plants are (living but) a moment; the flowers that grow from Reason are (ever) fresh.

گلشنی کز بقل روید یک دمست ** گلشنی کز عقل روید خرمست

The flowers that bloom from earth become faded; the flowers that bloom from the heart—oh, what a joy! 4650

گلشنی کز گل دمد گردد تباه ** گلشنی کز دل دمد وافر حتاه

Know that (all) the delightful sciences known to us are (only) two or three bunches of flowers from that Garden.

علم‌های با مزه‌ی دانسته‌مان ** زان گلستان یک دو سه گل‌دسته دان