
O humans who are better than the Moon and moonlight,
you have been created from water and mud,
but you are better than that!
Why are you stuck in the mud?
O drunks of the tavern, you are submerged in a whirlpool.
Why do you sleep day and night? Wake up!
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 4, rubai 1497, page 62.