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“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)

Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

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