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The heart in me lives for the pain you cause.

The world is foreign, only pain's a friend,

Who does this heart a favor just to come

Into a heart too wrung to offer room.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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