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My love is beautiful -- one of her faults.

Delicate... soft... that's two and three.

But what's the reason people really shun her?

She's perfect, faultless, that's the sin they flee.

#325, from Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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