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The Sufism of the Rubáiyát

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Norton F. W. Hazeldine translation

The means that do the ends of life defeat, are: drink! fornication and other unlawful acts committed by the flesh, gambling and untruth. No threats of hell, no hope of heaven, can lift the cloud that doth enshroud a defiled earthly temple. Such flowers as these forever die, uselessness has no place in creation's fertile fields.

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