Rumi's Masnavi - When the heart too has come into contact with the intellectual Lights, it bestows a portion thereof on the eyes also.

When the heart too has come into contact with the intellectual Lights, it bestows a portion thereof on the eyes also.

دل چو بر انوار عقلی نیز زد ** زان نصیبی هم بدو دیده دهد

Know, then, that the blessed Water from Heaven is the inspiration of (men's) hearts and the true explanation (of every mystery).

پس بدان کاب مبارک ز آسمان ** وحی دلها باشد و صدق بیان

Let us also, like that foal, drink the water of the stream; let us pay no regard to the evil suggestions of the railer.

ما چو آن کره هم آب جو خوریم ** سوی آن وسواس طاعن ننگریم

(If) you are a follower of the prophets, tread the Way: deem all the railing of (human) creatures to be a (vain and empty) wind.

پی‌رو پیغمبرانی ره سپر ** طعنه‌ی خلقان همه بادی شمر

When have the Masters who have traversed the Way lent ear to the clamour of curs? 4320

آن خداوندان که ره طی کرده‌اند ** گوش فا بانگ سگان کی کرده‌اند

The remainder of the story of the guest in the guest-killing mosque.

بقیه‌ی ذکر آن مهمان مسجد مهمان‌کش

Relate what appeared in the mosque to that self-sacrificing valiant man, and what he did.

باز گو کان پاک‌باز شیرمرد ** اندر آن مسجد چه بنمودش چه کرد

He slept in the mosque, (but) where (how) in sooth had he sleep? How should a submerged man sleep in the river?

خفت در مسجد خود او را خواب کو ** مرد غرقه گشته چون خسپد بجو

Always, for the lovers (of God) beneath the flood of a (great) passion, there is (only) the sleep of birds and fishes.

خواب مرغ و ماهیان باشد همی ** عاشقان را زیر غرقاب غمی

At midnight came an awful voice, “I come, I come upon thee, O thou that seekest advantage.”

نیمشب آواز با هولی رسید ** کایم آیم بر سرت ای مستفید

Five times came such a terrible voice, and his heart was being rent piecemeal. 4325

پنج کرت این چنین آواز سخت ** می‌رسید و دل همی‌شد لخت‌لخت

Commentary on the verse (of the Qur’án): “And raise the battle-cry against them with thy horsemen and men on foot.”

تفسیر آیت واجلب علیهم بخیلک و رجلک

When you earnestly resolve to be religious, the Devil in your nature cries out at you,

تو چو عزم دین کنی با اجتهاد ** دیو بانگت بر زند اندر نهاد

“Go not in that direction! Bethink you, O misguided one; for you will become captive to distress and poverty.

که مرو زان سو بیندیش ای غوی ** که اسیر رنج و درویشی شوی

You will become destitute, you will be cut off from friends, you will be despised, you will feel sorry.”

بی‌نوا گردی ز یاران وابری ** خوار گردی و پشیمانی خوری

From fear of the outcry of that accursed Devil you flee away from certain truth into error,

تو ز بیم بانگ آن دیو لعین ** وا گریزی در ضلالت از یقین

Saying, “Ho, to-morrow is mine and after to-morrow: I will run in the Way of religion, I have (plenty of) time.” 4330

که هلا فردا و پس فردا مراست ** راه دین پویم که مهلت پیش ماست

Then again you see Death killing your neighbours on left and right, so that the cry (of lamentation) is raised.

مرگ بینی باز کو از چپ و راست ** می‌کشد همسایه را تا بانگ خاست

Now, in fear of (your) life, you resolve to be religious: for a while, you make yourself a (true) man;

باز عزم دین کنی از بیم جان ** مرد سازی خویشتن را یک زمان

So you put on the armour of knowledge and wisdom, saying, “I will not shrink from any danger.”

پس سلح بر بندی از علم و حکم ** که من از خوفی نیارم پای کم

Again he (the Devil) deceitfully cries out at you—“Be afraid and turn away from the sword of poverty!”

باز بانگی بر زند بر تو ز مکر ** که بترس و باز گرد از تیغ فقر

Once more you flee from the Way of Light and cast off that armour of knowledge and virtue. 4335

باز بگریزی ز راه روشنی ** آن سلاح علم و فن را بفکنی

(For many) years, you are a slave to him because of a cry: you have laid down the blanket (have lain down to rest) in such darkness as this!

سالها او را به بانگی بنده‌ای ** در چنین ظلمت نمد افکنده‌ای

Dread of the cry of the devils has bound the people and taken hold of their throats,

هیبت بانگ شیاطین خلق را ** بند کردست و گرفته حلق را

Till their souls have become as hopeless of the Light as the spirits of the infidels who dwell in the tombs.

تا چنان نومید شد جانشان ز نور ** که روان کافران ز اهل قبور

Such is the terror of the cry of that accursed one: how (great) must be the dread of the Divine cry!

این شکوه بانگ آن ملعون بود ** هیبت بانگ خدایی چون بود

Dread of the falcon is (falling) upon the noble partridge: the fly hath no portion of that dread, 4340

هیبت بازست بر کبک نجیب ** مر مگس را نیست زان هیبت نصیب