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Shabistari, Mahmud - The Gulshan-i raz - All of the excellent virtues are of a middle way
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Garden of Mystery – The Gulshan-i raz of Mahmud Shabistari
All of the excellent virtues are of a middle way
They exist beyond excess and abatement
This middle is known as ‘the straight way’
Below either side of it are the depths of hell
This path is as narrow as a hair or a blade’s edge
Whose traveller can neither turn nor stop moving