[Sunlight] "Where there is pain, the cure will come"

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Where there is pain, the cure will come;
where the land is low, water will run.
If you want the water of mercy, go, become low!
Then drink mercy's wine and become drunk (Mathnavi II 1939-40)

-- Translation by William C. Chittick
"The Sufi Path of Love"
State Univ. of New York Press, Albany, 1983

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Lovingkindness is drawn to the saint, as medicine goes
to the pain it must cure.
Where there is pain, the remedy follows:
wherever the lowlands are, the water goes.
If you want the water of mercy, make yourself low;
then drink the wine of mercy and be drunk.
Mercy upon mercy rises to your head like a flood.
Don't settle on a single mercy, O son.
Bring the sky beneath your feet
and listen to celestial music everywhere.

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Mehrbâni shod shekâr-e shirmard
dar jahân dâru na-juyad ghayr-e dard
Har kojâ dardi davâ ânjâ ravad
har kojâ pastist âb ânjâ davad
b-e rahmat bâyadet raw past shaw
v-ângahân khvor khamr-e rahmat mast shaw
Rahmat andar rahmat âmad tâ be-sar
bar yeki rahmat foru ma-â ay pesar
Charkh-râ dar zir-e pâ ay shojâ`
Be-shenaw az fawq-e falak bâng-e samâ`

-- Mathnawi II: 1938-1942
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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[Sunlight] "Where there is pain, the cure will come"