"Don't be deceived by every intoxication"

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Listen, my heart, don't be deceived by every intoxication:
Jesus is intoxicated with God, the ass is intoxicated with barley.

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Hin be-har masti delâ gherreh ma-shaw
hast `Isâ mast-e Haqq khar mast-e jaw

-- Mathnawi IV:2691
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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"Don't be deceived by every intoxication"