Rumi's Masnavi - That is not discerned save by the elect; the rest are in doubt as to a new creation.

That is not discerned save by the elect; the rest are in doubt as to a new creation.

There is rain for the sake of nurture; there is (also) rain for the sake of decay.

Marvellous is the benefit of the rain of springtime, (but) to the garden the autumnal rain is like a (consuming) fever.

That vernal (rain) makes it tenderly nurtured (flourishing), while this autumnal (rain) makes it sickly and wan.

Similarly know that cold and wind and sun are at variance (produce various effects); and find the clue. 2040

Even so in the Unseen World there are these different sorts, (consisting) in loss and gain and in profit and defraudment (damage).

This breath of the Abdál (saints) is from that (spiritual) springtide: from it there grows a green garden in heart and soul.

From their breaths there comes (is produced) in him who is fortunate the (same) effect (as that) of the spring rain on the tree.

If there be in the place a dry tree, do not deem its defect to be due to the life quickening wind.

The wind did its own work and blew on: he that had a soul chose it in preference to his soul. 2045

On the meaning of the Tradition, “Take advantage of the coolness of the spring season, etc.”