Leggi› Libro 4› Spiegazione di "In verità, i credenti sono fratelli" e "I sapienti sono come un'anima sola", in particolare l'unione di Davide e Salomone e di tutti gli altri profeti (pace su di loro), che se si nega uno di loro, la fede in nessun profeta è valida, e questo è il segno dell'unione, che se si distrugge una casa tra migliaia di case, tutte si distruggono e nessuna parete rimane in piedi, perché "non facciamo distinzione tra nessuno di loro", e per il saggio basta un accenno, e questo è andato oltre un accenno› Distico 458
M4:458 — باز چون خورشید جان آفل شود / نور جمله خانهها زایل شود
M4:458
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This couplet asserts that just as the physical sun is the source of light for all houses, the 'sun of the soul' is the singular source of spiritual light for all individual souls; if that primary source diminishes, all derivative lights will also disappear.
This beyt is part of Rumi's extended analogy distinguishing between two types of 'soul' or 'life force': the animal soul (جان حیوانی) and the divine soul (جان ربانی). He first uses the example of individual lamps in houses (M4:452-453) to illustrate that the animal soul, tied to physical life and sustenance, is distinct and independent in each being; if one lamp goes out, the others remain lit. This is not the case for the divine soul.
He then shifts the metaphor to the sun (M4:455-457). The sun is a single, universal source of light. Even though its light appears in 'a hundred houses' (M4:456), it is fundamentally one light. The preceding couplet (M4:457) states that as long as the sun shines, its light is 'fixed' in every house. This beyt (M4:458) completes the analogy: if that single, universal 'sun of the soul' (خورشید جان) sets or declines, then all the lights that derived from it in individual 'houses' (souls) will also be extinguished. This emphasizes the unity of the divine source and the interconnectedness of all spiritual life, in contrast to the independent nature of individual animal lives. It foreshadows the idea of the prophets and saints being 'one soul' (کنفس واحدة), where the denial of one is a denial of all.
- خورشید جان
- Sun of the soul; the universal divine light or spiritual essence.
- آفل شود
- Declines, sets (like the sun); diminishes or vanishes.
- زایل شود
- Vanishes, disappears, is removed.
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