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Masnavi (Rumi)

A work by Rumi

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  • What korrents draws from it

    Only someone whose garment is torn by the violence of love is wholly pure of covetousness and sin, Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries, However much we describe and explain love, falling in love makes us ashamed of our words …

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Claims on korrents
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What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. Only someone whose garment is torn by the violence of love is wholly pure of covetousness and sin (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries (opens korrents.com)1

  3. However much we describe and explain love, falling in love makes us ashamed of our words (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Nothing but love itself can explain love and lovers (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Whoever has doubt or disquiet in the heart is secretly a denier and a philosopher (opens korrents.com)1

  6. The knowledge of people of heart lifts them up, while knowledge of the body weighs them down (opens korrents.com)1

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  • Rumi

Sources

  1. Masnavi, Book I (tr. and abridged by E. H. Whinfield) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)

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