Rumi's Masnavi - You scornfully refused (help), saying, “I am the owner of a (purified) heart: I have no need of any one else, I am united (with God).”

You scornfully refused (help), saying, “I am the owner of a (purified) heart: I have no need of any one else, I am united (with God).”

سر کشیدی تو که من صاحب‌دلم ** حاجت غیری ندارم واصلم

That is as though the water in the earth should scornfully refuse, saying, “I am the water, and why should I seek aid?”

آنچنانک آب در گل سر کشد ** که منم آب و چرا جویم مدد

You fancied this polluted (heart) was the (pure) heart; consequently you averted your heart from those possessed of (purified) hearts.

دل تو این آلوده را پنداشتی ** لاجرم دل ز اهل دل برداشتی

Do you indeed think it possible that this heart which is in love with milk and honey should be that (pure) heart?

خود روا داری که آن دل باشد این ** کو بود در عشق شیر و انگبین

The deliciousness of milk and honey is the reflexion of the (pure) heart: from that heart the sweetness of every sweet thing is derived. 2265

لطف شیر و انگبین عکس دلست ** هر خوشی را آن خوش از دل حاصلست

Hence the heart is the substance, and the world is the accident: how should the heart's shadow (reflexion) be the object of the heart's desire?

پس بود دل جوهر و عالم عرض ** سایه‌ی دل چون بود دل را غرض

Is that (pure heart) the heart that is enamoured of riches and power, or is submissive to this black earth and water (the body),

آن دلی کو عاشق مالست و جاه ** یا زبون این گل و آب سیاه

Or to vain fancies which it worships in the darkness for the sake of fame?

یا خیالاتی که در ظلمات او ** می‌پرستدشان برای گفت و گو

The heart is naught but the Sea of Light: is the heart the place for vision of God—and then blind?

دل نباشد غیر آن دریای نور ** دل نظرگاه خدا وانگاه کور

The heart is not (contained) in hundreds of thousands (of persons) noble or common; it is in a single one: which is he? Which? 2270

نه دل اندر صد هزاران خاص و عام ** در یکی باشد کدامست آن کدام