The Keeper of the treasury...

I am the lover of that One to whom every "that" belongs:

of even a single pearl of His
the bodyguard is Intellect and Spirit,

I do not boast, or if I boast, it only seems that way,

for, like water, I have no trouble quenching fire.

How should I steal when He is the keeper of the treasury?

How should I not be bold and resolute?

He is my support.

~ ~ ~

--Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Mathnawi III: 4136-4138
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)