[Sunlight] Become empty

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The Prophet said that the true believer is like a lute
which makes music only when it's empty.
As soon as it's filled, the minstrel lays it down--
don't become full, for sweet is the touch of His hand.
Become empty and stay happily between His two fingers,
for "where" is intoxicated with the wine of "nowhere"*

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Chon Payambar goft mo'men mez'harast
dar zamân-e khâliyi nâleh-garast
Chon shavad por motrebesh be-nehad ze dast
por ma-shaw k-âsib-e dast-e U khvoshast
Ti shaw o khvosh bâsh bayn-e esba`ayn
kaz may-e "lâ ayn"* sarmastast "ayn"

*The spiritual world, which transcends all spatial relations.

-- Mathnawi VI: 4213-4215
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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[Sunlight] Become empty