If you really want to know
the essence of insanity on the way of Love,
ask me.
If you really want to know
about a life lost, a mind turned upside down,
ask me.
If you really want to know
about days filled with hundreds of troubles,
ask me.
If you really want to know
about deserts burned by the fire of blood,
ask me.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 3, page 407.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx. pub. 10/2022), Rubai 861, volume 2.