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The Sufism of the Rubáiyát

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Norton F. W. Hazeldine translation

The only thing of profit here to take is the Good from all things, which causes hurt to none. Those who otherwise partake, the law pronounces invalid, which like the dust must to the dust descend. Yet in that dust the golden germ is found, which like a thought, a seed brought forth that ripened fruit may bear. So comes forth again the breath, the birth, the living and the end.

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