Rumi's Masnavi - Also, in respect of form, your hands and feet and hair are a hundred times as much as the contour of the eye;

Also, in respect of form, your hands and feet and hair are a hundred times as much as the contour of the eye;

هم به صورت دست و پا و پشم تو ** هست صد چندان که نقش چشم تو

But this (fact) is not hidden from you, that the two eyes are the choicest of all (your) members.

لیک پوشیده نباشد بر تو این ** کز همه اعضا دو چشم آمد گزین‏

By one thought that comes into the mind a hundred worlds are overturned in a single moment.

از یک اندیشه که آید در درون ** صد جهان گردد به یک دم سر نگون‏

If the body of the Sultan is, in form (appearance), one (only), (yet) hundreds of thousands of soldiers run behind (it). 1030

جسم سلطان گر به صورت یک بود ** صد هزاران لشکرش در پی دود

Again, the figure and form of the excellent King are ruled by one invisible thought.

باز شکل و صورت شاه صفی ** هست محکوم یکی فکر خفی‏

Behold people without end who, moved by one thought, have gone over the earth like a flood;

خلق بی‏پایان ز یک اندیشه بین ** گشته چون سیلی روانه بر زمین‏

Small is that thought in the people's eyes, but like a flood it swallowed and swept away the world.

هست آن اندیشه پیش خلق خرد ** لیک چون سیلی جهان را خورد و برد

So, when you see that from a thought every craft in the world (arises and) subsists—

پس چو می‏بینی که از اندیشه‏ای ** قایم است اندر جهان هر پیشه‏ای‏

(That) houses and palaces and cities, mountains and plains and rivers, 1035

خانه‏ها و قصرها و شهرها ** کوهها و دشتها و نهرها

Earth and ocean as well as sun and sky, are living (derive their life) from it as fishes from the sea—

هم زمین و بحر و هم مهر و فلک ** زنده از وی همچو کز دریا سمک‏

Then why in your foolishness, O blind one, does the body seem to you a Solomon, and thought (only) as an ant?

پس چرا از ابلهی پیش تو کور ** تن سلیمان است و اندیشه چو مور

To your eye the mountain appears great: (to you) thought is like a mouse, and the mountain (like) a wolf.

می‏نماید پیش چشمت که بزرگ ** هست اندیشه چو موش و کوه گرگ‏

The (material) world in your eyes is awful and sublime: you tremble and are frightened at the clouds and the thunder and the sky,

عالم اندر چشم تو هول و عظیم ** ز ابر و رعد و چرخ داری لرز و بیم‏

While in regard to the world of thought, O less (lower) than the ass, you are secure and indifferent as a witless stone, 1040

وز جهان فکرتی ای کم ز خر ** ایمن و غافل چو سنگ بی‏خبر

Because you are a (mere) shape and have no portion of intelligence; you are not of human nature, you are an ass's colt.

ز انکه نقشی وز خرد بی‏بهره‏ای ** آدمی خو نیستی خر کره‏ای‏

From ignorance you deem the shadow to be the substance: hence to you the substance has become a plaything and of slight account.

سایه را تو شخص می‏بینی ز جهل ** شخص از آن شد نزد تو بازی و سهل‏

Wait till the Day when that thought and phantasy unfolds its wings and pinions without any veil (encumbrance).

باش تا روزی که آن فکر و خیال ** بر گشاید بی‏حجابی پر و بال‏

You will see that the mountains have become soft as wool, (and that) this Earth of hot and cold has become naught;

کوهها بینی شده چون پشم نرم ** نیست گشته این زمین سرد و گرم‏

You will see neither the sky nor the stars nor (any) existence but God, the One, the Living, the Loving. 1045

نه سما بینی نه اختر نه وجود ** جز خدای واحد حی ودود

Here is a tale, (be it) true or false, to illustrate (these) truths.

یک فسانه راست آمد یا دروغ ** تا دهد مر راستیها را فروغ‏

How the (King's) retainers envied the favourite slave.

حسد کردن حشم بر غلام خاص

A King had, of his grace, preferred a certain slave above all his retinue.

پادشاهی بنده‏ای را از کرم ** بر گزیده بود بر جمله حشم‏

His allowance was the stipend of forty Amírs; a hundred Viziers would not see (receive) a tenth of its amount.

جامگی او وظیفه‏ی چل امیر ** ده یک قدرش ندیدی صد وزیر

Through the perfection of (his) natal star and prosperity and fortune he was an Ayáz, while the King was the Mahmúd of the time.

از کمال طالع و اقبال و بخت ** او ایازی بود و شه محمود وقت‏

His spirit in its origin, before (the creation of) this body, was near-related and akin to the King's spirit. 1050

روح او با روح شه در اصل خویش ** پیش از این تن بوده هم پیوند و خویش‏

(Only) that matters which has existed before the body; leave (behind you) these things which have newly sprung into being.

کار آن دارد که پیش از تن بده ست ** بگذر از اینها که نو حادث شده ست‏