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Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana and Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir
Jelāl once met a Turk in Qonya, who was selling fox-skins in the market, and crying them: “Dilku! Dilku!” (Fox! Fox! in Turkish.)
Jelāl immediately began to parody his cry, calling out in Persian: “Dil kū! Dil kū!” (Heart, where art thou?) At the same time he broke out into one of his holy waltzes of ecstasy.