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Pouring envy and greed from lovešs open sea,

We steal from each other the waters of bliss.

No fish ever hoards its own portion of water;

Without the ocean, there's nothing that is.

#1463: From Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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