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🧵THREAD: @Patreon DISCRIMINATES AGAINST IRANIAN-AMERICANS
In July 2022 they claimed it’s illegal for us to have an account because of our ‘location in Iran.’
@PersianPoetics is a Michigan LLC. I created the Patreon account in Michigan where I was born and raised.
This is a bad translation!
Here's a better one:
“Beyond heresy and faith, there’s another place,
we yearn for what’s in the midst of that desert plain.
When the gnostic arrives there, he prostrates his face,
there’s no heresy, faith, or place in that domain.”
It's a shame when the work of lesser-known poets is stolen and attributed to Rumi.
We should give credit where credit is due. This poem is by Alexis Karpouzos.
Rumi was asked: What do you gain from praying to God?
He replied: I don't earn anything, rather I lose: I lost my pride; I lost arrogance; I lost anger; I lost stress; I lost greed; I lost pleasure of lying; I lost taste of sin; I lost impatience; I lost despair & discouragement.
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