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There's a friend who feeds me pleasure and kindness.

He's sewn me a robe of my own skin and veins:

My body the robe for my Sufi heart,

This friend my lord, my cloister the whole world.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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