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A thousand men want to be one with you,

But for whom does that lie within reach?

He who can find it will find complete rest.

The rest, if they don't find suffering, they're blessed.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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