Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: ar- Rumi, Jalal ad-Din (1994), I Died as a Mineral, RoutledgeCurzon, Classical Persian Literature, Retrieved on 2012-06-21Source Material [books.google.com]
Memes
21 JUN 2012
Becoming More by Dying
I died as mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I became man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? 
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An interesting poem.
