In Book 3 of Jalaluddin Rumi's Masnavi, the poet establishes a strict hierarchy between direct divine revelation ($nass$) and human logical analogy ($qiyas$). Rumi asserts that revelation represents the Holy Spirit and the universal Soul, whereas the partial human intellect is merely a distant, secondary impression of this Spirit. To illustrate this limitation, he employs the metaphor of the sun: the intellect is likened to the scattered sunlight that reaches the earth, while revelation is the sun's actual disk. The partial intellect errs by mistaking its limited impression for the full reality. Furthermore, Rumi contrasts the inhabitants of these two epistemological realms by comparing intellectually cunning but spiritually disconnected seekers to serpents on the shore, and spiritually illuminated souls to fish permanently submerged in the 'sea of Majesty.' Ultimately, true spiritual fulfillment requires transcending the limited analogies of the partial intellect and immersing oneself directly in the constant light of revelation.