Rumi's Masnavi - Walking on the earth, like living men; (yet he is) dead and his spirit is gone to heaven;

Walking on the earth, like living men; (yet he is) dead and his spirit is gone to heaven;

می‌رود چون زندگان بر خاکدان ** مرده و جانش شده بر آسمان

(One) whose spirit hath a dwelling-place on high at this moment, (so that) if he die, his spirit is not translated,

جانش را این دم به بالا مسکنیست ** گر بمیرد روح او را نقل نیست

Because it has been translated before death: this (mystery) is understood (only) by dying, not by (using one's) reason; 745

زانک پیش از مرگ او کردست نقل ** این بمردن فهم آید نه به عقل

Translation it is, (but) not like the translation of the spirits of the vulgar: it resembles a removal (during life) from one place to another—

نقل باشد نه چو نقل جان عام ** هم‌چو نقلی از مقامی تا مقام

If any one wish to see a dead man walking thus visibly on the earth,

هرکه خواهد که ببیند بر زمین ** مرده‌ای را می‌رود ظاهر چنین

Let him behold Abú Bakr, the devout, (who) through being a true witness (siddíq) became the Prince of the Resurrected.

مر ابوبکر تقی را گو ببین ** شد ز صدیقی امیرالمحشرین

In this (earthly) life look at the Siddíq (Abú Bakr), that you may believe more firmly in the Resurrection.”

اندرین نشات نگر صدیق را ** تا به حشر افزون کنی تصدیق را

Mohammed, then, was a hundred (spiritual) resurrections here and now, for he was dissolved (naughted) in dying to (temporal) loosing and binding. 750

پس محمد صد قیامت بود نقد ** زانک حل شد در فنای حل و عقد

Ahmad (Mohammed) is the twice-born in this world: he was manifestly a hundred resurrections.

زاده‌ی ثانیست احمد در جهان ** صد قیامت بود او اندر عیان

They asked him concerning the Resurrection, saying, “O (thou who art the) Resurrection, how long is the way to the Resurrection?”

زو قیامت را همی‌پرسیده‌اند ** ای قیامت تا قیامت راه چند