A Real Treasure

At a Sema, a Dervish of enlightened heart was hoping to ask Mevlana, "What is poverty?"
Just then, in the midst of the Sema, Mevlana recited the following quatrain:
Poverty is the substance  and anything else the accident.
Poverty is health - anything else is disease,
The entire world is trickery and pride;
poverty, rather than this world, is the treasure, the aim.
The Dervish wept and fell to the ground at Mevlana's feet, declaring himself a sincere disciple.

Rumi and His Friends
Stories of the Lovers of God
Excerpts from the Manaqib al-'Arifin of Aflaki

Manuscript: Participating in Samā˓, RūMī Stops His Ears Against the Cries of the Seljuq Sultan Rukn Al-Dīn Qlich