O lovers! O lovers! I have lost my cup!
I have tasted the wine that does not fit into cups.
I am drunk with the wine of min ladunn*, inform the prosecutor
I have brought him and you some of that wine to taste!
I have brought him and you some of that wine to taste!
O king of the truthful! have you ever seen and impostor like me?
With your lively servants I am alive,
With the dead ones I am dead!
With heart-ravishing beauties, beauties, I am in bloom like a flower bush
With cold-hearted deniers [of you], I am dispassionate like the autumn.
Rumi
(Divan 1371:1-4)
*Note: A reference to the frequently cited Sufi concept 'ilm-i ladunni
(a knowledge from the divine presence)
alluding specifically to chapter 18, verse 65 in the Qur'an:
... wa-'allamnahu min ladunna 'ilman
(... and we endowed him with knowledge of our own)