Hidden Treasure

David said: "O Lord, since you have no need of us, Say, then, what wisdom was there in creating the two worlds?"
 God said to him: "O temporal man, I was a hidden treasure; I sought that that treasure of loving kindness and bounty should be revealed. I displayed a mirror; its face the heart, its back the world, Its back is better than its face; if the face is unknown to you."

From: Reynold A. Nicholson, ed., Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz, (London: Cambridge University Press, 1898)