[Sunlight] The treasure lies beneath the house

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Demolish the house, for a hundred thousand houses
may be made from this carnelian.
The treasure lies beneath the house, and there is no other way:
don't be afraid of destroying the house and don't stand still,
for from one treasure in hand it is possible to build
a thousand houses without suffering toil and pain.
In the end this house will fall of itself into ruin,
and the treasure beneath it will certainly be uncovered.
But then the treasure won't be yours,
since your soul receives that divine gift as wages for destroying the house.
When it hasn't done the work, it earns no wages:
There is nothing for the human being hereafter
but recompense for that which she has wrought here.*

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Khâneh bar kon kaz `aqiq-e in yomn
sad hazârân khâneh shâyad sâkhtan
Ganj zir-e khâneh-st va châreh nist
az kharâbi ma-naddish va ma-'ist
Keh hazârân khâneh az yek naqd-e ganj
tavân `emârat kard bi taklif o ranj
`qebat-e in khâneh khvod virân shavad
ganj az ziresh yaqin `oryân shavad
Lik ân-e to na-bâshad zânkeh ruh
mozd-e virân kardanastesh ân fotuh
Chon na-kard ân kâr mozdesh hast lâ
laysa lil-insân illâ mâ sa`â*

*l `Imrân, 25

-- Mathnawi IV: 2540-2545
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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[Sunlight] The treasure lies beneath the house