Your Image

Rumi Translated by Rezwani and Helminski
Furuzanfar Divan 644

Once Your image settled into our hearts,
we found ourselves sitting in Paradise .

All our worries of Apocalypse and Armageddon
each turned into the face of a houri
and the charm of a Chinese beauty.

All that men and women fear to look at,
all that stalks them, now became close companions.

The skies became a rose garden and earth a buried treasure;
yet, what sort of "thing" are You
that all existence became this way because of You?

Since we saw Him we have been prospering day after day;
the thistle that happened to find Him
became a flower bed of certainty.

The unripe grapes turned ripe by the Sun and became sugary;
likewise, dark rock turned into a gem.

Many an earth was transfigured by His charisma;
the sinister turned felicitous out of His hand of fortune.

The darkness of the heart, became an opening of the heart;
the waylayer of faith is now a mentor and a leader.

The dark well of suffering which was a prison to Joseph,
became a strong rope for him to climb out.

Every particle is, like the army of Allah,
under Divine command,
to the faithful servant a guarantee and to the denier an ambush.

Keep silent, these words are like the Nile :
One, a Copt, will drown in this blood;

another, a blessed Israelite, will be buoyed along.
Keep silent. These words are ripened figs,

but not every bird of the air
will come to discover them.

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