The Festival of Spring, from the Díván of Jeláleddín / Rendered in English Gazels after Rückert's Versions, with an Introduction and a Criticism of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Jeláleddín, O tell it—I AM the Soul in All!

Responsibility
XVII.

O thou who hast come safely, into this Being's Land;

Strange, thou thyself not knowest, how thou didst reach its Strand.—

Straight from the great Shah's Chamber, thou cam'st to Being's Town,

Sent here to do the Business which he himself had planned.

The Lord gave, then, to prove thee, Capacity to do;

And as entrusted Capital, thy Sum of Life in hand.

How has the Market's Turmoil confused thy Sense and Brain;