Make Rumi your companion on the road you tread, So that God may bestow warmth and frenzy (of love) on you. For Rumi knows the kernal from the husk.

He is steadfast and sure footed in the way of the Friend. They wrote and write commentaries on him but the real man eluded their grasp. His meanings and teachings have evaded us like the gazelle.

From his words they learnt the dance of the body. And closed their eyes to the dance of the spirit.

The dance of the body kicks up some dust, (but) the dance of the spirit shatters heavens.

In the words of Mawlana:

Aan Ruh RAa Keh ‘Ish’q-i-HaQqqi sha’r nisSt nAa Buhd beh Keh boDan-i n OuGhyr-i’ aar nist.

A soul bereft of True love. Its non-existence would be better than its existence.