To Love is to reach God.
Never will a Lover's chest
feel any sorrow.
Never will a Lover's robe
be touched by mortals.
Never will a Lover's body
be found buried in the earth.
To Love is to reach God.
~Rumi
Translated by: Shahram Shiva
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī,
and more popularly in the English-speaking world simply as Rumi, was a
13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
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