Hidden Lantern
Read Free / The Mathnawí, Book I

How the beasts requested the hare to tell the secret of his thought.

Afterwards they said, “O nimble hare, communicate what is in thy apprehension,

O thou who hast grappled with a lion, declare the plan which thou hast thought of.

Counsel gives perception and understanding: the mind is helped by (other) minds.

The Prophet said, ‘O adviser, take counsel (with the trustworthy), for he whose counsel is sought is trusted.’”