M6:771 — از نصیحتهای تو کر بوده‌ام / بت‌شکن دعوی و بت‌گر بوده‌ام

This couplet is the heart of a soul's desperate confession to God. The speaker, having been urged to practice memento mori ("die before you die") to purify their heart, admits their total failure. The first line is a straightforward admission of spiritual deafness: God's advice has been available, but the speaker has ignored it.

The second line deepens the self-indictment with a powerful image of hypocrisy. The speaker has made the daʿvī (claim) of being an "idol-breaker" (bot-shekan), a title evoking the Prophet Abraham, the archetypal destroyer of false gods. This is the posture of a monotheist, a spiritual warrior clearing the world of attachments. But in reality, the speaker confesses, "I have been an idol-maker" (bot-gar). Instead of destroying idols, their actions have created new ones—new attachments, new worldly goals, new illusions of self—that stand between them and God.

In the context of the passage, this is the moment of crisis where the soul realizes its own pretense. It has claimed to be fighting for God while actually serving its own ego. This recognition of profound self-deception is the necessary first step toward the genuine spiritual death Rumi advocates.