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Tell me, life of this world, does anyone exist but you?

Without life, or this world, does anything exist but you?

I do wrong, and you inflict harsh punishment for wrong.

Then between us, is there really any difference, tell me?

#1545, from Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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