“He says, ‘There’s nothing left of me.
I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
Is it still a stone, or a world
made of redness—It has no resistance
to sunlight.’

This is how Hallaj said, I am God,
and told the truth!

The ruby and the sunrise are one.”

—Rumi, The Sunrise Ruby, from The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, 1995.