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The Luzumiyat of Abu'l-Ala
Abu al-Ala al-Maarri
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Most of the censors of Abu’l-Ala were either spurred to their task by bigotry or animated by jealousy and ignorance. They held him up to ridicule and opprobrium, and such epithets as heretic, atheist, renegade, etc., were freely applied. But he was supremely indifferent to them all,14 and never would he cross swords with any particular individual; he attacked the false doctrines they were teaching, turning a deaf ear to the virulent vituperations they hurled upon him. I fail to find in the [17]three volumes of his poems, even in the Letters, one acrimonious line savor. . . Read More
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Abu’l-Ala Al-Maari wrote this poem during the Dark Ages: “Do not unjustly eat fish the water has given up, And do not desire as good the flesh of slaughtered animals, or the white milk of mothers who intended its pure draught for their young, not noble ladies.” Quite a vegan way of putting it. This
You shall not kill
Thy life with guiltless life-blood do not stain— Hunt not the children of the woods; in vain
Thou’lt try one day to wash thy bloody hand:
Nor hunter here nor hunted long remain.
Although we shall all return to clay, we must respect basic criteria.
“If miracles were wrought in ancient years,
Why not to-day, O Heaven-cradled seers?
The highway’s strewn with dead, the lepers weep,
If ye but knew,—if ye but saw their tears!”
-Abu al-Ala al-Maarri
I can read Arabic and Persian but I cannot say I am fluid in either. There are certain words here and ther