M6:749 — اندرین نشات نگر صدیق را / تا به حشر افزون کنی تصدیق را

This couplet is part of Rumi's explanation of the Prophetic saying, “Die before you die.” He argues that some saints achieve a state of spiritual death to the world while still physically alive. Their souls have already ascended, and they walk the earth as living proof of the afterlife.

Rumi presents Abū Bakr, known by the honorific al-Ṣiddīq (The Truthful/Affirmer), as the prime example. To 'look upon' him is not merely to see him, but to recognize his spiritual state. Doing so, Rumi says, is a way of witnessing the Resurrection (ḥashr) in the here and now. This direct experience strengthens one's own taṣdīq—the act of affirming the truth of the unseen spiritual realities. In essence, the saint acts as a mirror of the world to come, and witnessing them transforms faith from a concept into a certainty.