For the sake of the one who sees

If anyone has eloquence, a listener draws it out: the teacher's enthusiasm and energy are derived from the child he teaches. When the harpist who plays twenty-four musical modes finds no ear to listen, his harp becomes a burden: no song comes to mind, his ten fingers will not function. If there were no ears to receive the message from the Unseen, no prophet would have brought a revelation from Heaven. And if there were no eyes to see the works of God, neither would the sky have revolved, nor would the earth have smiled with fertile greenness. The declaration lawlâka* means this, that the whole business of creation is for the sake of the perceiving eye and the one who sees. RUMI