تا بر آرد کوره از نقره جفا
This spiritual discipline and hardship are for the sole purpose that the furnace may purge the dross from the silver.
Couplet 232 · The Story of the King and the Handmaiden7 couplets in the Masnavi
Reflections, ayahs and hadiths on this topicThis spiritual discipline and hardship are for the sole purpose that the furnace may purge the dross from the silver.
Couplet 232 · The Story of the King and the HandmaidenThe testing of good and bad exists so that the gold may boil, its dross rise to the surface, and be revealed.
Couplet 233 · The Story of the King and the HandmaidenThe spiritual path first ruins the body, but after that ruin, it restores it to true flourishing.
Couplet 306 · The Story of the Greengrocer and the ParrotLike the one who ruins the house for the sake of a treasure of gold, and then with that very treasure rebuilds it more splendid than before.
Couplet 307 · The Story of the Greengrocer and the ParrotOr like the one who cuts off the water and cleanses the riverbed, and then lets the water flow again through it to drink.
Couplet 308 · The Story of the Greengrocer and the ParrotOr like the one who cuts open the skin and draws out the arrowhead, and after that, fresh skin grows anew.
Couplet 309 · The Story of the Greengrocer and the ParrotOr like the one who tears down the fortress and seizes it from the infidel, and after that raises upon it a hundred towers and ramparts.
Couplet 310 · The Story of the Greengrocer and the Parrot