شاعر: رومی
وزن: فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلن (رمل مسدس محذوف یا وزن مثنوی)
صنف: مثنوی
Afterwards they said, “Come, O mother, where is our father's grave? Do thou show us the way.”
She took them and showed the way to his grave: then they kept a three days' fast for the sake of the King.
After that they said, “O father, the King in consternation hath sent us a message
(To say) that two men have brought him to sore straits and have destroyed his prestige with the army.
There is not with them any weapons or soldiers; nothing but a rod, and in the rod is a calamity and bane.
Thou art gone into the world of the righteous, though to outward seeming thou liest in a tomb.
If that is magic, inform us; and if it be divine, O spirit of our father,
(In that case) also inform us, so that we may bow down (before them) and bring ourselves in touch with an elixir.
We are despairing, and a hope has come; we are banished, and Mercy has drawn us (towards favour).”