مثنوی معنوی/بیان آنک آنچ بیان کرده می‌شود صورت قصه است

A passage from Book Five of Rumi's Masnavi on Persian Wikisource, headed "Explaining that what is told is only the form of the story". Rumi says that what is told is only the outer form of the story, suited to the understanding of its hearers, and that speech is ashamed to tell its truth; then in Arabic and Persian verses he speaks of his love and madness and addresses Ayaz: "O Ayaz, through love of you I have become thin as a hair".