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“Many have been led astray by the Qur'an:
by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well.
There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man,
for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.”
— Rumi
III, 4210-11
Jewels of Remembrance (1996)
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