M1:2712 — این سبوی آب را بردار و رو / هدیه ساز و پیش شاهنشاه شو

此詩節出自一則寓言：一位生活在沙漠中的阿拉伯人，誤以為繁華的巴格達也像他家鄉一樣缺水。他的妻子鼓勵他，真誠的奉獻（صدق，ṣidq）不在於禮物的貴重，而在於傾其所有。對他們而言，最寶貴的資產便是一瓶辛苦收集的雨水。

妻子的這句話，既是天真的建議，也蘊含著蘇非的核心教義。這瓶水象徵著凡人所能獻給神的全部——我們有限的感官、知識與善功。儘管在神的無限富足面前，這份禮物微不足道（巴格達有整條底格里斯河，正如神擁有無限的恩典），但神所看重的是奉獻者純粹的心意與徹底的交付。魯米稍後便會揭示，這個水瓶就是我們的肉身（تن），瓶中的鹹水則是我們充滿缺陷的五感（حواس شور）。將此瓶獻上，便是祈求神接納我們這個不完美的自我，並將其與祂無限的恩典之海相連。

This couplet is the pivot point in the story of the desert Arab, where his wife's advice crystallizes into a simple, direct command. Believing the Caliph in Baghdad must also suffer from a lack of water, she urges her husband to offer what is, to them, the most valuable thing they own: a jug of fresh rainwater. Her words, "Take this jug... and go," capture the essence of sincere giving. It is not about the gift's objective value to the recipient, but about the giver's intention and the totality of their sacrifice.

Rumi immediately follows this by allegorizing the story. The "jug" (sabū) becomes the human body, and the "water" represents our limited, often brackish sensory perceptions. The act of bringing this humble gift to the "King of Kings" (shāhanshāh)—God—is the spiritual path itself. The beyt thus functions on two levels: as a narrative instruction within the tale, and as a spiritual directive to the reader to offer their very self, however flawed, as a sincere gift to the Divine.