Couplet 477-480

اوّل ایجاں دفعِ شرّ موش کن

O’ dear! Get rid of mischief of mouse first

وانگہ اندر جمعِ گندم جوش کن

Then try to hoard wheat

بشنو از اَخبارِ آں صَدْرُ الصُّدور

Listen to the Hadith of head of heads

لَا صَلٰوۃَ( تَمَّ) اِلَّا  بِالْحُضُوْرِ

As no prayer is completed without dedication of heart

گرنہ موشے دزد در انبانِ ماست

If there is no mouse stealing from our sack

گندمِ اعمالِ چل سالہ کجاست

Then where is the good deeds done in fourty years?

ریزہ ریزہ صدق ہر روزہ چرا

The small good deeds of day to day,

جمع می ناید دریں انبارِ ما

Why is it not accumulating ?

                     Maulana Rum stated above that the nafs and satan are like the mice, which are eating away our collection of good deeds and then he further states that first go and remove these mice and then commence the collection of good deeds i.e. do the deeds with sincerity without allowing pride and showiness to enter. Then only your deeds will become worth belief. He further puts emphasis that go and see the Hadith and what it says that ‘the prayer (نماز) is not complete and perfect without dedication of heart (حضورِ قلب). Dedication of heart is not possible without removal of the mice of nafs and satan, thus the removal of these mice is necessary. Further he is warning on the existence of these mice that where are the effects of our collection of good deeds that we have been doing and why are not the impacts of love for Allah (عشقِ یلاہی) and malice towards the world develop, if there is no mice of nafs and satan are working. Why had it not been a big collection of good deeds, if we had started accumulating a small iota of good deeds full of truth and sincerity on daily basis.

                        Showiness, pride, lust, desire, anger etc. are the bad deeds and there are two stages of their removal. First is not to make intention of doing such things, consider such things bad if encountered and do not act according to the desire of these despite  feeling of dangers and whispers. This stage is of self authority, mandatory and whereas, feeling of dangers and whispers are not in self control, which is not harm. The second stage is the eradication of the root & base of these deeds i.e. there will be no desire & presence of these in the nafs and they become the undesirables towards Allah Ta’ala like we dislike filth. The learning of this is recommended and striving for perfection and making it a habit of doing detailed austerities and struggles in solitude. These are the two stages of achieving dedication of heart ( حضورِ قلب) in prayer (نماز), the first is that in prayer and in any other good deeds, do not  bring the thoughts of other than Allah intentionally in the heart i.e. the intention of the prayer/ worship will not be for the acceptance from any creatures etc. or its pleasure and demand for wealth etc. This dedication of heart (حضورِ قلب) is mandatory and without this, the prayer is not accepted and become the candidate of punishment for ostentation. The second stage is that the imagination of attention towards anything, except Allah Ta’ala, should not be there during prayer (نماز). There is again two stages, one is that do not bring thoughts of anything other than Allah in the heart by on your own, which is known as humility (خشوع) and it seems to be compelling condition as ascertained from ayaat and Hadith, but may not be in a mandatory one. The second stage is that thoughts of anyone other than Allah should not come even without one’s intention, which is not achieved without the annihilation (فناء) of nafs and heart, the learning of this is recommended. The ahadith mentioned in the couplet (لا صلاۃ الابحخور القلب) has not been seen in the books of hadith, but the content of this hadith is proved from the Quran and hadith and hence the saints have said it hadith perhaps be on the basis of its meaning.