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The Majesty, Power and Honor of Fasting

Close your mouth to bread. The sugar of fasting has come.

You have seen the results of eating and drinking.

Don’t let troubles grab your skirt,

Or all the anxieties of the world will gather around you.

Leave before God’s order is carried out;

Before the Angel of Death closes your mouth, drink Love’s sherbet day and night.

Rubailer, Page 217, Rubai #2

You color yourself with the color of the community.

Taste the pleasure of the soul: Come to the neighborhood of our tavern

It is customary for Love to eat faith like a meal.

Love doesn’t go after bread or the worries of life;

Its table is set beyond day and night.

So what is fasting? An invitation to a secret feast.

Rubailer, Page 335, Rubai #2