Rumi's Masnavi - When you have escaped from self, you have become wholly the proof (of God): when the slave (in you) has become naught, you have become the King.

When you have escaped from self, you have become wholly the proof (of God): when the slave (in you) has become naught, you have become the King. 1320

چون ز خود رستی همه برهان شدی ** چون که بنده نیست شد سلطان شدی‏

[And if you wish to behold (this mystery) plainly, Saláhu’ddín has shown it forth: he has made the eyes to see and has opened (them).

ور عیان خواهی صلاح دین نمود ** دیده‏ها را کرد بینا و گشود

From his eyes and mien every eye that hath the Light of Hú (God) has discerned (mystical) poverty.

فقر را از چشم و از سیمای او ** دید هر چشمی که دارد نور هو

The Shaykh (Saláhu’ddín) is one who, like God, acts without instrument, giving lessons to his disciples without anything said.]

شیخ فعال است بی‏آلت چو حق ** با مریدان داده بی‏گفتی سبق‏

In his hand the heart is submissive like soft wax: his seal makes (the impression) now (of) shame, now (of) fame.

دل به دست او چو موم نرم رام ** مهر او گه ننگ سازد گاه نام‏

The seal impressed on his wax is telling of the seal-ring; of whom, again, does the device tell, (which is) graven on the stone of the ring? 1325

مهر مومش حاکی انگشتری است ** باز آن نقش نگین حاکی کیست‏

It tells of the thought of the Goldsmith—(all this) is a chain, every link (inserted) in another.

حاکی اندیشه‏ی آن زرگر است ** سلسله‏ی هر حلقه اندر دیگر است‏

Whose voice is this echo in the mountains of (our) hearts? Sometimes this mountain is full of the voice, sometimes it is empty.

این صدا در کوه دلها بانگ کی ست ** گه پرست از بانگ این که گه تهی است‏

Wheresoever he is, he is the Sage, the Master—may his voice not forsake this mountain!

هر کجا هست او حکیم است اوستاد ** بانگ او زین کوه دل خالی مباد

There is a mountain that (only) doubles the voice; there is a mountain that makes it hundredfold.

هست که کاوا مثنا می‏کند ** هست که کآواز صد تا می‏کند