Rumi's Masnavi - “I am a mountain, and my being is His building; and if I become like a straw, my wind (the wind that moves me) is recollection of Him.

“I am a mountain, and my being is His building; and if I become like a straw, my wind (the wind that moves me) is recollection of Him.

کوهم و هستی من بنیاد اوست ** ور شود چون کاه بادم یاد اوست

My longing is not stirred save by His wind; my captain is naught but love of the One.

جز به باد او نجنبد میل من ** نیست جز عشق احد سر خیل من‌‌

Anger is king over kings, and to me it is a slave: even anger I have bound under the bridle.

خشم بر شاهان شه و ما را غلام ** خشم را هم بسته‌‌ام زیر لگام‌‌

The sword of my forbearance hath smitten the neck of my anger; the anger of God hath come on me like mercy. 3800

تیغ حلمم گردن خشمم زده ست ** خشم حق بر من چو رحمت آمده ست‌‌

I am plunged in light although my roof is ruined; I have become a garden although I am (styled) Bú Turáb (the father of dust).

غرق نورم گر چه سقفم شد خراب ** روضه گشتم گر چه هستم بو تراب‌‌

Since a motive (other than God) entered (my heart) in the (holy) war, I deemed it right to sheathe my sword,

چون در آمد علتی اندر غزا ** تیغ را دیدم نهان کردن سزا

That my name may be he loves for God's sake, that my desire may be he hates for God's sake,

تا احب لله آید نام من ** تا که ابغض لله آید کام من‌‌

That my generosity may be he gives for God's sake, that my being may be he withholds for God's sake.

تا که اعطا لله آید جود من ** تا که امسک لله آید بود من‌‌

My stinginess is for God's sake, my bounty is for God's sake alone: I belong entirely to God, I do not belong to any one (else); 3805

بخل من لله عطا لله و بس ** جمله لله‌‌ام نیم من آن کس‌‌

And that which I am doing for God's sake is not (done in) conformity, it is not fancy and opinion, it is naught but intuition.

و آن چه لله می‌‌کنم تقلید نیست ** نیست تخییل و گمان جز دید نیست‌‌

I have been freed from effort and search, I have tied my sleeve to the skirt of God.

ز اجتهاد و از تحری رسته‌‌ام ** آستین بر دامن حق بسته‌‌ام‌‌

If I am flying, I behold the place to which I soar; and if I am circling, I behold the axis on which I revolve;

گر همی‌‌پرم همی‌‌بینم مطار ** ور همی‌‌گردم همی‌‌بینم مدار

And if I am dragging a burden, I know whither: I am the moon, and the Sun is in front of me as the guide.”

ور کشم باری بدانم تا کجا ** ماهم و خورشید پیشم پیشوا

There is no means (possibility) of communicating more than this to the people: in the river there is no room for the Sea. 3810

بیش از این با خلق گفتن روی نیست ** بحر را گنجایی اندر جوی نیست‌‌

I speak low according to the measure of (their) understandings: ’tis no fault, this is the practice of the Prophet.

پست می‌‌گویم به اندازه‌‌ی عقول ** عیب نبود این بود کار رسول‌‌

“I am free from self-interest: hear the testimony of a freeman, for the testimony of slaves is not worth two barleycorns.”

از غرض حرم گواهی حر شنو ** که گواهی بندگان نه ارزد دو جو

In the religious law the testimony of a slave has no value at the time of litigation and judgement.

در شریعت مر گواهی بنده را ** نیست قدری وقت دعوی و قضا

(Even) if thousands of slaves bear witness on thy behalf, the law does not assign to them the weight of a straw.

گر هزاران بنده باشندت گواه ** بر نسنجد شرع ایشان را به کاه‌‌

In God's sight the slave of lust is worse than menials and slaves brought into servitude, 3815

بنده‌‌ی شهوت بتر نزدیک حق ** از غلام و بندگان مسترق‌‌

For the latter becomes free at a single word from his master, while the former lives sweet but dies exceedingly bitter.

کاین به یک لفظی شود از خواجه حر ** و آن زید شیرین و میرد سخت مر

The slave of lust hath no (means of) release at all except through the grace of God and His special favour.

بنده‌‌ی شهوت ندارد خود خلاص ** جز به فضل ایزد و انعام خاص‌‌

He has fallen into a pit that has no bottom, and that is his (own) sin: it is not (Divine) compulsion and injustice.

در چهی افتاد کان را غور نیست ** و آن گناه اوست جبر و جور نیست‌‌

He has cast himself into such a pit that I find no rope capable of (reaching) its bottom.

در چهی انداخت او خود را که من ** در خور قعرش نمی‌‌یابم رسن‌‌

I will make an end. If this discourse go further, not only hearts but rocks will bleed. 3820

بس کنم گر این سخن افزون شود ** خود جگر چه بود که خارا خون شود

(If) these hearts have not bled, ’tis not because of (their) hardness, ’tis (because of) heedlessness and preoccupation and ill-fatedness.

این جگرها خون نشد نز سختی است ** غفلت و مشغولی و بد بختی است‌‌