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Shams-i-Tabrizi

The spiritual companion whose love transformed Rumi and became the model for divine love in his poetry—representing the meeting point where a human being becomes a mirror for the infinite. Shams embodies the paradox that the beloved can be utterly present and eternally absent.

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