Rumi's Masnavi - (Such) as the mote appears in the presence of the sun, even such is the sun (of this world) in the pure substance (of the Light of God).

(Such) as the mote appears in the presence of the sun, even such is the sun (of this world) in the pure substance (of the Light of God).

چون نماید ذره پیش آفتاب ** هم‌چنانست آفتاب اندر لباب

The sun that becomes resplendent, and before which the (keenest) sight is blunted and dazzled—

آفتابی را که رخشان می‌شود ** دیده پیشش کند و حیران می‌شود

Thou wilt see it as a mote in the light of the Divine Throne, (a mote) beside the illimitable abounding light of the Divine Throne.

هم‌چو ذره بینیش در نور عرش ** پیش نور بی حد موفور عرش

Thou wilt deem it base and lowly and impermanent, (when) strength has come to thine (inward) eye from the Creator.” 590

خوار و مسکین بینی او را بی‌قرار ** دیده را قوت شده از کردگار

(The Divine Light is) the Philosophers' Stone from which a single impression fell on the (primal) vapour, and it (the vapour) became a star;

کیمیایی که ازو یک ماثری ** بر دخان افتاد گشت آن اختری

The unique elixir of which half a gleam struck upon a (region of) darkness and made it the sun;

نادر اکسیری که از وی نیم تاب ** بر ظلامی زد به گردش آفتاب

The marvellous alchemist who by a single operation fastened all these properties on Saturn.

بوالعجب میناگری کز یک عمل ** بست چندین خاصیت را بر زحل

Know, O seeker, that the remaining planets and the spiritual substances are (to be judged) according to the same standard.

باقی اخترها و گوهرهای جان ** هم برین مقیاس ای طالب بدان

The sensuous eye is subject to the sun: seek and find a divine eye, 595

دیده‌ی حسی زبون آفتاب ** دیده‌ی ربانیی جو و بیاب

In order that the beams of the flaming sun may become subject (abased) before that vision;

تا زبون گردد به پیش آن نظر ** شعشعات آفتاب با شرر

For that vision is luminous, while these (sunbeams) are igneous: fire is very dark in comparison with light.

که آن نظر نوری و این ناری بود ** نار پیش نور بس تاری بود

The miraculous gifts and illumination of Shaykh ‘Abdullah Maghribí, may God sanctify his spirit.

کرامات و نور شیخ عبدالله مغربی قدس الله سره

Shaykh ‘Abdullah Maghribí said, “During sixty years I never perceived in night the quality of night.

گفت عبدالله شیخ مغربی ** شصت سال از شب ندیدم من شبی

During sixty years I never experienced any darkness, neither by day nor by night nor from infirmity.”

من ندیدم ظلمتی در شصت سال ** نه به روز و نه به شب نه ز اعتلال

The Súfís declared his words to be true: “During the night we would follow him 600

صوفیان گفتند صدق قال او ** شب همی‌رفتیم در دنبال او

Into deserts filled with thorns and ditches, he going in front of us like the full moon.

در بیابانهای پر از خار و گو ** او چو ماه بدر ما را پیش‌رو

Without looking behind him, he would say, (though it was) at night-time, ‘Hark! here is a ditch: turn to the left!’

روی پس ناکرده می‌گفتی به شب ** هین گو آمد میل کن در سوی چپ

Then, after a little while, he would say, ‘Turn to the right, because a thorn is before your feet.’

باز گفتی بعد یک دم سوی راست ** میل کن زیرا که خاری پیش پاست

Day would break: we would come to kiss his foot, and his foot would be like the feet of a bride,

روز گشتی پاش را ما پای‌بوس ** گشته و پایش چو پاهای عروس

No trace of earth or mud on it, none of scratch from thorns or bruise from stones.” 605

نه ز خاک و نه ز گل بر وی اثر ** نه از خراش خار و آسیب حجر

God made the Maghribí a Mashriqí: He made the place of sunset (maghrib) light-producing like the place of sunrise (mashriq).

مغربی را مشرقی کرده خدای ** کرده مغرب را چو مشرق نورزای

The light of this one who belongs to the Sun of suns is riding (in majesty): by day he is guarding high and low.

نور این شمس شموسی فارس است ** روز خاص و عام را او حارس است

How should that glorious light, which brings thousands of suns into view, not be a guardian?

چون نباشد حارس آن نور مجید ** که هزاران آفتاب آرد پدید

By his light do thou walk always in safety amidst dragons and scorpions.

تو به نور او همی رو در امان ** در میان اژدها و کزدمان

That holy light is going in front of thee and tearing every highwayman to pieces. 610

پیش پیشت می‌رود آن نور پاک ** می‌کند هر ره‌زنی را چاک‌چاک

Know aright (the meaning of the text) on the Day when He (God) will not put the Prophet to shame; read (their) light shall run before them.

یوم لا یخزی النبی راست دان ** نور یسعی بین ایدیهم بخوان