Rumi's Masnavi - The saints are the intellect of intellect, and (all) intellects (from the beginning) to the end are (under their control) like camels.

The saints are the intellect of intellect, and (all) intellects (from the beginning) to the end are (under their control) like camels.

عقل عقلند اولیا و عقلها ** بر مثال اشتران تا انتها

Come now, look upon them with (profound) consideration: there is (but) one guide, and a hundred thousand souls (following him).

اندر ایشان بنگر آخر ز اعتبار ** یک قلاووز است جان صد هزار

What is the guide and what the camel-driver? Get thee an eye that may behold the Sun! 2500

چه قلاووز و چه اشیربان بیاب ** دیده‌ای کان دیده بیند آفتاب

A world has been left nailed fast in night, waiting expectantly, depending on the sun and the day.

نک جهان در شب بمانده میخ دوز ** منتظر موقوف خورشید است و روز

Here is a sun hidden in a mote, a fierce lion in the fleece of a lamb.

اینت خورشیدی نهان در ذره‌‌ای ** شیر نر در پوستین بره‌‌ای‌‌

Here is an ocean hidden beneath straw: beware, do not step on this straw with hesitancy.

اینت دریایی نهان در زیر کاه ** پا بر این که هین منه با اشتباه‌‌

(But) a feeling of hesitancy and doubt in the heart (of the foolish) is a Divine mercy in regard to the (spiritual) guide.

اشتباهی و گمانی در درون ** رحمت حق است بهر رهنمون‌‌

Every prophet came alone into this world: that Guide was inwardly alone, and (yet) he had a hundred unseen worlds within him. 2505

هر پیمبر فرد آمد در جهان ** فرد بود و صد جهانش در نهان

By his power he enchanted the macrocosm (universe), he enfolded himself in a very small frame.

عالم کبری به قدرت سحر کرد ** کرد خود را در کهین نقشی نورد

The foolish deemed him to be lonely and weak: how is he weak who has become the King's companion?

ابلهانش فرد دیدند و ضعیف ** کی ضعیف است آن که با شه شد حریف‌‌