Rumi's Masnavi - An existence is concealed in non-existence, an adorability in the nature of adoration.

An existence is concealed in non-existence, an adorability in the nature of adoration.

The steel and flint are dark externally, (but) inwardly a (resplendent) light and a world-illuminating candle.

In a single fear (danger) are enclosed a thousand securities; in the black (pupil) of the eye ever so many brilliancies. 3580

Within the cow-like body there is a prince, a treasure deposited in a ruin,

To the end that an old ass, Iblís to wit, may flee from that precious (treasure) and may see (only) the cow and not (see) the king.

Story of the King who enjoined his three sons, saying, “In this journey through my empire establish certain arrangements in such-and-such a place and appoint certain viceroys in such-and-such a place, but for God's sake, for God's sake, do not go to such-and-such a fortress and do not roam around it.”

There was a King, and the King had three sons: all three (were) endowed with sagacity and discernment.

Each one (was) more praiseworthy than another in generosity and in battle and in exercising royal sway.

The princes, (who were) the delight of the King's eye, stood together, like three candles, before the King, 3585

And the father's palm-tree was drawing water by a hidden channel from the two fountains (eyes) of the son.

So long as the water of this fountain is running swiftly from the son towards the gardens of his mother and father,