From each a mystic silence Love demands.
What do all seek so earnestly? 'Tis Love.
What do they whisper to each other? Love.
Love is the subject of their inmost thoughts.
In Love no longer "thou" and "I" exist,
For Self has passed away in the Beloved.
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"Love as the Ruler of the Universe", in Margaret Smith, The Persian Mystics: ‘Aṭṭār (1932), p. 93. Different translation in James Fadiman and Robert Frager, Essential Sufism (1997): "From each, Love demands a mystic silence."