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That same one (who) in your eyes is like a snake is a picture (of beauty) in the eyes of another,
Because in your eyes is the fancy of his being an infidel, while in the eyes of his friend is the fancy of his being a (true) believer;
For both the effects (belief and unbelief) exist in this one person: now he is a fish and now a hook.
Half of him is believer, half of him infidel; half of him cupidity, half of him patience (and abstinence).
Your God has said, “(Some) of you (are) believing”; (and) again, “(Some) of you (are) unbelieving” (as) an old fire-worshipper.
(He is) like an ox, his left half black, the other half white as the moon.
Whoever sees the former half spurns (him); whoever sees the latter half seeks (after him).
Joseph was like a beast of burden in the eyes of his brethren; at the same time in the eyes of a Jacob he was like a houri.
Through evil fancy the (bodily) derivative eye and the original unseen eye (of the mind) regarded him (Joseph) as ugly.
Know that the outward eye is the shadow of that (inward) eye: whatever that (inward) eye may see, this (outward) eye turns to that (eye).
You are of where, (but) your origin is in Nowhere: shut up this shop and open that shop.
Do not flee to the (world of the) six directions, because in directions there is the shashdara, and the shashdara is mate, mate.

The Masnawi - Volume 2, 605