The testimony of external acts and words to the hidden mind and the inner light.
شاعر: رومی
وزن: فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلن (رمل مسدس محذوف یا وزن مثنوی)
صنف: مثنوی
Act and word are witnesses to the hidden mind: from these twain infer the inward state.
When your thought does not penetrate within, inspect the patient's urine from without.
Act and word are (as) the urine of the sick, which is clear evidence for the physician of the body.
But the spiritual physician enters into his (patient's) soul and by the spiritual way penetrates into his (inmost) belief.
He hath no need of fine acts and words: “beware of them (the spiritual physicians), they are spies on (men's) hearts.”
Demand this testimony of acts and words from him (only) who is not united with the Sea like a river.
