Finally Finished

davidsmith208
Feb 22, 2017
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I finally finished the Masnawi of Rumi. Today I finished the sixth book.

I took like 5 years. I read a few pages a day.

I already read The Conference of the Birds by Attar in a similar way.

You can't say it is not the greatest book of mystic poetry.

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