Rumi's Masnavi - Without any doubt, action (practice) is a branch of (subordinate to) seeing (theory): therefore Man is nothing but “the little man” (the pupil of the eye).

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1679-1688

فرع دید آمد عمل بی‌‌هیچ شک ** پس نباشد مردم الا مردمک‌‌
Without any doubt, action (practice) is a branch of (subordinate to) seeing (theory): therefore Man is nothing but “the little man” (the pupil of the eye).

من تمام این نیارم گفت از آن ** منع می‌‌آید ز صاحب مرکزان‌‌ 1680
I dare not expound the whole of this (subject): hindrance thereto is coming from those who are at the centre.

چون فراموشی خلق و یادشان ** با وی است و او رسد فریادشان‌‌
Inasmuch as the forgetfulness and recollection of (God's) creatures are with him (depend on the perfect saint), and he comes at their call for help,

صد هزاران نیک و بد را آن بهی ** می‌‌کند هر شب ز دلهاشان تهی‌‌
Every night that glorious one is emptying from their hearts hundreds of thousands of good and evil (thoughts),

روز دلها را از آن پر می‌‌کند ** آن صدفها را پر از در می‌‌کند
(While) in the daytime he is filling their hearts therewith— he is filling those oyster-shells with pearls.

آن همه اندیشه‌‌ی پیشانها ** می‌‌شناسند از هدایت جانها
By (Divine) guidance (after sleep is past) all those thoughts of former things recognize the spirits (to which they were attached).

پیشه و فرهنگ تو آید به تو ** تا در اسباب بگشاید به تو 1685
Your handicraft and skill come (back) to you, that they may open to you the door of (ways and) means.

پیشه زرگر به آهنگر نشد ** خوی این خوش خو به آن منکر نشد
The goldsmith's craft did not go to the ironsmith; the disposition of the good-natured man did not go to the disagreeable one.

پیشه‌‌ها و خلقها همچون جهیز ** سوی خصم آیند روز رستخیز
On the day of Resurrection the handicrafts and dispositions will come, like articles of property, to the claimant (owner).

پیشه‌‌ها و خلقها از بعد خواب ** واپس آید هم به خصم خود شتاب‌‌
After sleep also, the handicrafts and dispositions come back in haste to him that claims them as his.