If you know the value of every article
of merchandise,
but you don’t know the value of your
own soul,
it will all have been pointless.
You’ve come to know the fortunate
And the inauspicious stars,
But you don’t know whether you
yourself
are fortunate or unlucky.
This, is the essence of all sciences-
That you should know who you will be
When the day of reckoning arrives.
– Rumi
MATHNAWI III, 2652-54
(Selections from the MATHNAWI)
