Guidance of Ideas

What ear has told you falsely, eye will tell truly. 
Then ear, too, will acquire the properties of an eye;
Your ears, now worthless as wool, will become gems; 
Then, your whole body will become a mirror,
It will be as an eye of a bright gem in your bosom.
First the hearing of the ear enables you to form ideas, 
Then these ideas guide you to the Beloved.
Strive, then, to increase the number of these ideas,
 That they may guide you, like Majnun, to the Beloved.

Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi From: Charles F. Horne, ed., The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Vol.VIII: Medieval Persia, pp. 111-130.