Rumi's Masnavi - The portion of the blind is the fancy that increases pain; the share of the (spiritual) eye is these fancies (ideas) of dying to self (faná).

The portion of the blind is the fancy that increases pain; the share of the (spiritual) eye is these fancies (ideas) of dying to self (faná).

کور را قسمت خیال غم فزاست ** بهره‏ی چشم این خیالات فناست‏

The blind are a mine (full) of the letter of the Qur’án: they do not see the ass, and (only) cling to the pack-saddle.

حرف قرآن را ضریران معدن‏اند ** خر نبینند و به پالان بر زنند

Since you have sight, go after the ass which has jumped (away from you): how long (will you persist in) stitching the saddle, O saddle-worshipper?

چون تو بینایی پی خر رو که جست ** چند پالان دوزی ای پالان پرست‏

When the ass is there, the saddle will certainly be yours: bread does not fail when you have the (vital) spirit. 725

خر چو هست آید یقین پالان ترا ** کم نگردد نان چو باشد جان ترا

(On) the back of the ass is shop and wealth and gain; the pearl of your heart is the stock (which provides wealth) for a hundred bodies.

پشت خر دکان و مال و مکسب است ** در قلبت مایه‏ی صد قالب است‏

Mount the ass bare-backed, O busybody: did not the Prophet ride the ass bare-backed?

خر برهنه بر نشین ای بو الفضول ** خر برهنه نه که راکب شد رسول‏

The Prophet rode (his beast) bare-backed; and the Prophet, it is said, journeyed on foot.

النبی قد رکب معروریا ** و النبی قیل سافر ماشیا

The ass, your fleshly soul, has gone off; tie it to a peg. How long will it run away from work and burden, how long?

شد خر نفس تو بر میخیش بند ** چند بگریزد ز کار و بار چند

It must bear the burden of patience and thanksgiving, whether for a hundred years or for thirty or twenty. 730

بار صبر و شکر او را بردنی است ** خواه در صد سال و خواهی سی و بیست‏

None that is laden supported another's load; none reaped until he sowed something.

هیچ وازر وزر غیری بر نداشت ** هیچ کس ندرود تا چیزی نکاشت‏