In Book Two, Section 81 of the Masnavi, Rumi addresses the existence of opposing religious and philosophical sects. He explains that different factions, such as philosophers and theologians, describe the hidden reality according to their limited individual understanding. Rumi posits that no sect is entirely right, nor is any sect completely astray ('نه حق‌اند این همه، نه به کلی گمرهانند این رمه'). Instead, every school of thought contains a fragment of truth. It is this partial truth that makes their flawed doctrines appealing and believable, as pure falsehood would be intuitively rejected. This concept establishes Rumi's epistemological framework for understanding religious pluralism, emphasizing that human ideological differences stem from grasping only pieces of a unified reality.