Masnavi, Book I (tr. and abridged by E. H. Whinfield)
The book opens with
Only someone whose garment is torn by the violence of love is wholly pure of covetousness and sin
Their wordsOnly he whose garment is rent by the violence of love Is wholly pure from covetousness and sin.
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