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Go to the Winery and exchange your robe for a drink of wine by Moulana Shah Maghsoud (1914 - 1980) Timeline Original Language Persian/Farsi Muslim / Sufi 20th Century Go to the Winery and exchange your robe for a drink of wine, Despite the arrogant pious, drink like a Sufi.     -- from Diwan-e-Ghazal (in Farsi), by Moulana Shah Maghsoud / Translated by Seyedeh Nahid Angha Amazon.com	Themes   Wine         Recommended Books Diwan-e-Ghazal (in Farsi), by Moulana Shah Maghsoud / Translated by Seyedeh Nahid Angha Ecstasy: The World of Sufi Poetry and Prayer, by Seyedeh Dr. Nahid Angha Psalms of the Gods, by Moulana Shah Maghsoud / Translated by Seyedeh Nahid Angha, Ph.D. Selections:: Poems from Khayyam, Rumi, Hafez, and Shah Maghsoud, by Seyedeh Nahid Angha, Ph.D.
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Commentary by Ivan M. Granger

The "robe" can be understood as one's public persona, the social identity -- the ego.

Wine is the drink of blissful union with the Beloved, something not understood by those caught up in religious dogma and formalities.

So we can read these two lines as telling us to abandon the ego, and discover the bliss of union.

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