Rumi: Pleasures of the flesh are as nuts and raisins, O son, If you are a man dispense with these two things; And if you dispe

Pleasures of the flesh are as nuts and raisins, O son, If you are a man dispense — Rumi

Pleasures of the flesh are as nuts and raisins, O son, If you are a man dispense with these two things; And if you dispense with them the goodness of God Will set you above the nine heavens.

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