Jalaleddin Muhammad Rumi wrote:

Why is your love so wise and skillful?
Why is your kindness so delicately-founded?
If love is not good, why do I burn in it?
And if it is good, what is this much ado for?

عشق تو چنین حکیم و استاد چراست
مهر تو چنین لطیف بنیاد چراست

بر عشق چرا سوزم اگر او خوش نیست
ور عشق خوش است اینهمه فریاد چراست

Soot ink on hand-dyed ahar paper, bordered with peacock hatip ebru and zerefshan gold flakes, colored paper, and gold. Talik calligraphy. Framed in quartersawn oak milled in 2020 in Takoma Park, Maryland.