Rumi
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When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it. Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.

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