“If you serve God”

Though you read a hundred volumes without a pause,
you won’t remember a single point without the Divine decree;
but if you serve God and read not a single book,
you’ll learn rare sciences within your own heart.

— Mathnawi VI:1931-1932
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
“Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance”
Threshold Books, 1996