M2:1944 — پاک کن دو چشم را از موی عیب / تا ببینی باغ و سروستان غیب

This couplet is part of a series of direct commands from Rumi to the reader, each using a medical or physical metaphor for spiritual purification. The central image here is a tiny hair in the eye (muy-e ʿeyb), which, though small, can completely obscure one's vision. The "hair" is the habit of seeing faults (*ʿeyb*) in others and in the world. Rumi argues that this critical, fault-finding gaze is the primary obstacle to spiritual perception.

By removing this subtle but powerful impediment, one's vision is cleared. The reward is not just better sight in the material world, but the ability to perceive a completely different dimension: the "garden and cypress-grove of the Unseen" (bāgh o sarvestān-e gheyb). This is Rumi's imagery for the lush, ever-living reality of the spiritual world, which is always present but invisible to the eye clouded by negativity and judgment.

The instruction is intensely practical. Rumi is not speaking of a literal hair, but of a psychological and spiritual disposition. To see the divine, one must stop focusing on the imperfections of the created. The couplet functions as a direct diagnosis and prescription: the illness is the judgmental eye, and the cure is a cleansing that opens one to the perception of Grace.