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Слушать(AI)If You Show Patience
If you show patience,
I'll rid you of this virtue.
If you fall asleep,
I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.
If you become a mountain,
I'll melt you in fire.
And if you become an ocean,
I'll drink all your water.
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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