Concealment

"You have concealed richness in the lowliness of poverty.
Contrary is secretly concealed in contrary: fire is concealed in boiling water.
A delightful garden is concealed in Nimrod's fire: revenues grow from giving and spending.
Riches were never diminished by alms giving...
The poor tax is the keeper of your purse, the ritual prayer is the shepherd that saves you from the wolves.
The sweet fruit is hidden in boughs and leaves, the everlasting life is hidden in death.
Manure, by way of assimilation, becomes nutriment for the earth, and by means of that a fruit is born of the earth.
An existence is concealed in non-existence, being adorable is hidden in the nature of adoration.
The steel and flint are externally dark, but inwardly resplendent with light and a world illumining candle.
In a single fear are enclosed a thousand securities; in the black pupil of the eye are ever so many brilliant stars.
A treasure has been deposited in a ruin"

Rumi (Vol.6, 3569-3581)

Commentary: No wonder we are confused...