[Sunlight] "When he could not find it"

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Today, Sunlight offers two interpretations of Quatrain 167:

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The Friend comes into my body
looking for the center, unable
to find it, draws a blade,
strikes anywhere.

-- Version by Coleman Barks
"Unseen Rain"
Threshold Books, 1986

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In a dream my lover came
searching through my body
for the state of love.
When he could not find it
he drew his dagger and stabbed
my heart.

-- Translation by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi
Rumi: Hidden Music
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001

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[Sunlight] "When he could not find it"