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Today, Sunlight offers three interpretations of Quatrain 1408:
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O my Beloved!
Take me,
Liberate my soul,
Fill me with your love,
and release me from both worlds.
If I set my heart
On anything but you,
O fire, burn me from inside!
O my Beloved
Take away what I want,
Take away what I do,
Take away everything
that takes me from you.
-- Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva
A Garden Beyond Paradise
Bantam Books, 1992
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take me in my love
take my soul
set me on ecstasy
take both of my worlds
if I rest my heart on
anything but you
throw me with fireball
take everything I hold
-- Translation by Nader Khalili
Rumi, Dancing the Flame
Cal-Earth Press, 2001
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My Friend,
I offer You my life.
Accept me, make me drunk
and save me from both worlds.
Set me on fire
if my heart settles on anything
but You.
-- Translation by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi
Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999
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