In Book 3 of Jalaluddin Rumi's Masnavi, as the hospitable townsman eagerly departs for the village, his inner reason issues a profound warning against worldly exultation. Rumi uses the intellect's voice to advise the townsman that true joy should only stem from the Divine, comparing God to the eternal spring and worldly things to the dead of winter. Reason cautions that rejoicing in anything other than God is a deceptive, gradual luring-on, and that true spiritual ascent is often found through grief rather than comfort. Furthermore, Rumi invokes a prophetic tradition stating that 'residence in the countryside is the grave of the intellect.' In this context, the village serves as a metaphor for the foolishness, spiritual dullness, and loss of intellectual light that results from abandoning the secure, spiritual city of the heart for worldly materialism and distraction.