Abul-Ala al-Maarri He was born in 363 A.H. within the city of Maarrat en-Nu’man in present-day Syria. Blinded by smallpox as a baby, he started writing poetry on the age of 11. Amongst his major works The Treatise of Forgiveness, Luzûm Mâ La Yelzem [Gereksizliğin Gerekliliği], al-Fusûl ve’l-Gâyât [Fasıllar ve Gayeler] with Siktu’z-Zend [Kavın Kıvılcımı] countable. He died in 449 Hijri. Though 1573 years have handed since his demise, he’s a up to date poet of our time.
Poems from Arabic by Prof. Dr. Mehmet Hakki Sucin (Gazi College, College of Schooling, Division of Arabic Schooling).
Crowd of Opposites
There is no such thing as a distinction in my faith, my creed
Between the wail of the weeping and the singing of the singing
The voices of the herald of demise and the herald
Alike in every single place if in contrast
Is that pigeon crying or singing?
On the bent department of that tree
Take your steps sluggish, I do not assume so
You discover nothing however corpses within the floor
How ugly to trample on ancestors
Though many ages have handed,
Relatively than promoting soot on the our bodies of the servants
Stroll in case you can stroll within the sky
What sarcophagi witnessed many occasions
Within the crowd of opposites laughing out loud
Life is a tedious enterprise
It’s unusual that those that need it are consistently growing.
A single unhappiness to be felt in the mean time of demise
It’s value a number of joys in the mean time of beginning
Your creature is shocked by amazement
Within the face of an animal comprised of one thing soulless
MOUTH AND HEARTS
mouths There is no such thing as a god however Allah says however
It is from honest hearts and souls
I do know that the sunshine has no supply
Your teachings that make haram halal
Don’t belief the lightning flash of the clouds
They’re swords unsheathed by destiny
For those who assume sincerely concerning the occasions of time
The fears that appear most implacable to you’re defeated
Everybody has their share of errors:
Hanifs*, Jews, Magi, Christians
Now there are two folks of the world: One has a thoughts
However he has no faith, the opposite has no thoughts however has faith
I DO NOT CARE
I am the final of my time however
I introduced what the primary couldn’t convey
Seeing ignorance unfold throughout
I ignored it a lot that they thought of me ignorant
My day competes with my night time in honor
My sunsets envy my dawns
It took a very long time, my confession of the quirks of time, however
I do not care anymore concerning the evil hunters
SMART IS THE ONLY IMAM
You’ve gotten chosen life from life, O kings.
And you continue to add life to them ruthlessly
Why do not you see the methods of greatness
A womanizer also can go to battle
However some need an imam to return out
Let him give a speech to the deaf and dumb continents
Futile! There is just one imam
It’s the thoughts that guides the morning to the night.
PINE
We laughed, however how depressing was our laughter
But the inhabitants of the earth alone should weep
It’s so devastating that the unpredictability of time
We won’t return to the identical mildew once more like shattered glass
*Hanifs: Individuals who comply with the way in which of Prophet Abraham and who imagine in a single God. (QN.)