[Sunlight] The knowledge market

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Conventional knowledge is for sale;
when it finds a purchaser,
it glows with delight.
The purchaser of real knowledge is God:
its market is always splendid.
The owner of real knowledge has closed his lips
and is enraptured in his trading:
the buying is without end,
for "God has purchased."*

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`Elm-e taqlidi bud bahr-e forukht
chon biyâbad moshtari khvosh bar forukht
Moshtari-ye `elm-e tahqiqi Haqq ast
dâyeman bâzâr-e u bâ rawnaq ast
Lab be-basteh mast dar bay` o sherâ
moshtari bi hadd keh "Allâha-shtarâ"*

*al-Tawbah 9:111

-- Mathnawi II: 3265-3267
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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[Sunlight] The knowledge market