Quatrain 6

RubāʿīIraqi style
English

Quatrain 6

As long as even a hair's breadth of your own self remains, the habit of worshipping idols remains too. You said, 'I shattered the idol of illusion, I'm free.' But the very idol you shattered through illusion still remains.
Explanation: The 'idol' here stands for the ego and false beliefs; the paradox is that claiming to have destroyed such illusions is itself another form of self-regard.

Original · Persian

رباعی شمارهٔ ۶

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