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Hide the faults of others deep in the earth

If shame is what their actions make you feel.

But if you mirror both their good and bad

Then you yourself must be like polished steel.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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