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Слушать(AI)You Personify Gods Message
You personify God's message.
You reflect the King's face.
There is nothing in the universe that you are
Everything you want, look for it within yourself— you are that.
Excerpt from Rumi, 'Thief of Sleep' translated by by Shahram Shiva
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi my
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