"I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"
The Mystics of Islam (1914) edited by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

Rūmī was born #OTD in 1207.

He was a 13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73 

Books by Rumi at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/43130

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