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The Sufism of the Rubáiyát

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Norton F. W. Hazeldine translation

Thus having quenched my thirst of years wherefore I asked of Him, are there so many here, who spend their lives in tears, And waste their days in arguments over what is right or wrong? He in these powerful words His answer gave! "All men and women were equal made! And of tears and sorrows gave he none to man; none can suffer except those who suffering choose." Which sufferings being but deliverant pains of birth, give to the soul its freedom. To my second question He answered thus! Who dares of right or wrong to judge, since the motive of a crime in ages past has disappeared, and crimes that were unknown to them are living here with you? But to those who seek true judgment this is the way it's found! There is a Judge who never errs who sits in the human heart, whose judgments are not heard without, but in life's deeds are proven. No human tongue can yet define, nor will it here be given, that power on earth to understand the infinite law of heaven.

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