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“We have been praying that this conspiracy of things might come to an end. A conspiracy that produces separation is an improper conspiracy.”

Original: ما دعا می‌کردیم که این اتفاق چیزها به پایان رسد. اتفاقی که جدایی آرد اتفاق نیکو نیست. — A wry greeting to a long-absent visitor, turning chance into a moral question about distance. · Fihi Ma Fihi, Discourse 7 (Persian)

Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

“When has religion ever been one? Here each faith has a different desire. Unity belongs to the resurrection, when all eyes fix on one place.”

Original: کی دین یکی بوده است؟ اینجا هر دینی را خواهشی دیگر است. یکی شدن در قیامت ممکن است که همه چشم بر یک جا نهند. — Rumi refuses a political shortcut to oneness while keeping a last horizon of shared gaze. · Fihi Ma Fihi, Discourse 7 (Persian)

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“There is no “before” left to me. It has been a long time since I have had any before. If they come, they come before an image they believe to be me.”

Original: مرا پیشی نمانده است. دیر است که مرا پیش نیست. اگر می‌آیند پیش صورتی می‌آیند که آن را من می‌پندارند. — Rank and precedence dissolve once the self is no longer stationed as an object of approach. · Fihi Ma Fihi (Persian)

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“He is beloved and humble, like a branch loaded with fruit: the fruit weighs it down. A branch with no fruit lifts its head high.”

Original: او محبوب و متواضع است چون شاخی که بار میوه دارد؛ میوه او را فرو می‌کشد. شاخ بی‌میوه سر برمی‌آورد. — Humility is treated as the natural posture of abundance, not of lack. · Fihi Ma Fihi, Discourse 25 (Persian)

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“Those who say “I am the servant of God” still affirm two beings: themselves and God. Those who say “I am God” have become nothing and thrown themselves to the wind.”

Original: آن که گوید من بنده خدایم دو وجود اثبات کرده است: خود و خدا. آن که گوید انا الحق نیست شده است و خود را به باد داده. — Servanthood can still be a form of dualism; annihilation is presented as the deeper courtesy. · Fihi Ma Fihi, Discourse 11 (Persian)

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“These words are for those who need words in order to understand. For those who understand without words, what use is speech?”

Original: این سخن برای آن کس است که سخن می‌باید تا بفهمد. اما آن را که بی‌سخن فهم می‌کند سخن چه فایده دارد؟ — A teacher’s defence of both talking and not talking, according to the hearer’s need. · Fihi Ma Fihi, Discourse 6 (Persian)

Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

“It was the thought of me that brought you here. That thought did not speak a word, yet without words it drew you.”

Original: خیال من تو را به حضور من آورد. این خیال با تو سخن نگفت که حال تو چون است؛ خیال بی‌سخن تو را اینجا کشید. — Rumi answers the charge of silence by arguing that presence already speaks before speech begins. · Fihi Ma Fihi, Discourse 2 (Persian)

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“There is one thing in this world that must never be forgotten. If you forget everything else and remember that, you need not worry; if you remember everything else and forget that, you have done nothing at all.”

Original: در عالم یک چیز است که آن فراموش کردنی نیست. اگر جمله چیزها را فراموش کنی و آن را فراموش نکنی باک نیست و اگر جمله را به جای آری و یاد داری و آن را فراموش کنی هیچ نکرده باشی. — Rumi frames human life as a single entrusted task, beside which every other achievement is empty. · Fihi Ma Fihi, Discourse 4 (Persian)

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