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Remember the time when We said:"Enter this land, and eat of its food as you may desire, abundantly; but enter the gate humbly and say,"Remove Thou from us the burden of our sins,"whereupon We shall forgive you your sins,and shall amply reward the doers of good.Al-Baqarah 2:58, tr. AsadO, happy the soul that saw its own faults,and if anyone mentioned a fault,wished eagerly to take responsibility --for half of each personhas always belonged to the realm of fault,but the other half belongsto the Realm of the Unseen.Rumi, Mathnawi II:3-34-3035, tr. Helminski |
