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My faith in God is this: her eyes, their cheer,

Their drunken joy, her wild, heathen hair.

They say true faith is anything but this.

Then, by this, true faith I do dismiss.

#1316: From Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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