If you would buy a pomegranate, buy it when it is laughing, having its rind cleft open, so that its laughter (openness) may give information as to its seeds.
Oh, blessed is its laughter, for through its mouth it shows the heart, like a pearl from the casket of the spirit.
Unblest was the laughter (openness) of the red anemone, from whose mouth appeared the blackness of its heart.
The laughing pomegranate makes the garden laughing: companionship with holy men makes you one of the holy men.
– 'Masnavi'
Oh, blessed is its laughter, for through its mouth it shows the heart, like a pearl from the casket of the spirit.
Unblest was the laughter (openness) of the red anemone, from whose mouth appeared the blackness of its heart.
The laughing pomegranate makes the garden laughing: companionship with holy men makes you one of the holy men.
– 'Masnavi'