[Sunlight] "If you serve God"

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Though you read a hundred volumes without a pause,
you won't remember a single point without the Divine decree;
but if you serve God and read not a single book,
you'll learn rare sciences within your own heart.

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Var be-khvâni sad sohof bi sakteh-'i
bi Qadr yâdet na-mânad nokteh-'i
Var koni khedmat na-khvâni yek ketâb
`elm-hâ-ye nâdereh yâbi ze jayb

-- Mathnawi VI:1931-1932
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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[Sunlight] "If you serve God"