Rumi (Masnavi:I,388s) – adormecido ao mundo

388. Every night Thou freest the spirits from the body’s snare, and dost erase [the impressions on] the tablets [of the mind].
The spirits are set free every night from this cage, [they are] done with ordinance and talk and tale.
At night prisoners are unconscious of their prison, at night governors are unconscious of their power.
There is no sorrow, no thought of gain or loss, no fancy of this person or that person.
This is the state of the ‘arif [gnostic], even without sleep: God said, [Thou wouldst deem them awake] whilst they slept. Shy not at this.
He is asleep, day and night, to the affairs of the world, like a pen in the hand of the Lord’s control.
One who sees not the hand in the writing thinks [that] the act [of writing proceeds] from the pen by means of movement.
He [God] hath shown forth some part of this state of the ‘arif, [inasmuch as] the vulgar too are carried off [overtaken] by sleep of the senses.
Their souls are gone into the desert that is without description: their spirits and bodies are at rest;
And with a whistle thou leadest them back to the snare, leadest them all [back] to justice and to the judge.