Only An Idol

Every shop has a different (kind of) merchandise: the Mathnawi is the shop for (spiritual) poverty, O son.
In the shoemaker’s shop there is fine leather: if you see wood (there), it is (only) the mould for the shoe. The drapers have (in their shops) silk and dun-coloured cloth: if iron be (there), it is (only to serve) for a yard-measure. 
Our Mathnawi is the shop for Unity: anything that you see (there) except the One  is (only) an idol.

The Masnawi, Volume 6, 1525