Rumi's Masnavi - This (bodily) dying became (as unformidable) to me as sleeping, from my confidence that Thou, O God, wouldst raise me from the dead.

This (bodily) dying became (as unformidable) to me as sleeping, from my confidence that Thou, O God, wouldst raise me from the dead.

هم‌چو خفتن گشت این مردن مرا ** ز اعتماد بعث کردن ای خدا

If the Seven Seas become a mirage at every moment, Thou wilt take it (the water) by the ear and bring it (back), O Water (Source) of the water. 4225

هفت دریا هر دم ار گردد سراب ** گوش گیری آوریش ای آب آب

Reason is trembling with fear of death, but Love is bold: how should the stone be afraid of rain as the clod (is)?

عقل لرزان از اجل وان عشق شوخ ** سنگ کی ترسد ز باران چون کلوخ

This is the Fifth of the Scrolls (Books) of the Mathnawí: it is like the stars in the zodiacal signs of the spiritual sky.

از صحاف مثنوی این پنجمست ** بر بروج چرخ جان چون انجمست

Not every sense can find its way by the star: (none can do so) except the mariner acquainted with the star.

ره نیابد از ستاره هر حواس ** جز که کشتیبان استاره‌شناس

The lot of the others is naught but looking (at it): they are ignorant of its auspiciousness and (fortunate) conjunction.

جز نظاره نیست قسم دیگران ** از سعودش غافلند و از قران

During the nights till daybreak make thyself familiar with devil-burning stars like these, 4230

آشنایی گیر شبها تا به روز ** با چنین استارهای دیوسوز

Every one (of which) is hurling naphtha from the fortress of Heaven to drive away the evil-thinking devil.

هر یکی در دفع دیو بدگمان ** هست نفط‌انداز قلعه‌ی آسمان

To the devil the stars are (noxious) as a scorpion, (but) to the buyer (of Truth) it (the star) is the next of kin (the nearest and dearest).

اختر ار با دیو هم‌چون عقربست ** مشتری را او ولی الاقربست

If the Bow (Sagittarius) pierce the devil with an arrow, (yet) the Bucket (Aquarius) is full of water for the crops and fruit.

قوس اگر از تیر دوزد دیو را ** دلو پر آبست زرع و میو را

Though the Fish (Pisces) wreck the ship of error, (yet) for the friend (of Truth) it is (ploughing and) sowing like the bull.

حوت اگرچه کشتی غی بشکند ** دوست را چون ثور کشتی می‌کند

If the Sun rend Night to pieces, like a lion, (yet) there comes from it a satin robe of honour for the ruby. 4235

شمس اگر شب را بدرد چون اسد ** لعل را زو خلعت اطلس رسد

Every existence that emerged from non-existence is poison to one and sugar to another.

هر وجودی کز عدم بنمود سر ** بر یکی زهرست و بر دیگر شکر

Be a friend (of Truth) and become quit of unsweet qualities, so that you may eat sugar even from a jar of poison.

دوست شو وز خوی ناخوش شو بری ** تا ز خمره‌ی زهر هم شکر خوری

A (deadly) poison did no harm to Fárúq (‘Umar) because to him the antidote, discrimination (fárúqí), was (sweet as) candy.

زان نشد فاروق را زهری گزند ** که بد آن تریاق فاروقیش قند