During the Syrian Civil War, the al-Nusra Front demolished a statue of al-Ma'arri, which had been crafted in 1944 by the sculptor Fathi Muhammad
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al-Ma'arri
Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, also known by his Latin name Abulola Moarrensis, was an Arab philosopher, poet, and writer from Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, Emirate of Aleppo. Al-Ma'arri's religious beliefs and philosophical worldview have been the subject of extensive historical and modern academic debate. While his critical poetry led detractors and early Western scholars to characterize him as a deist, freethink…
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culture · Arab philosopher and poet (973–1057) · poet · writer · philosopher · also al-Ma'arri, Al-Ma'arri, Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, al-Maʻarrī
Born December 0973 · Died 9 May 1057 · Q277073
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Poem by Abu 'ala al-Ma'arri ("I no longer steal from nature") read in Arabic
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Died 1057-05-09.
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“The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.”
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“Whenever I reflect, my reflecting upon what I suffer only rouses me to blame him that begot me.And I gave peace to my children, for they are in the bliss of non-existence which surpasses all the pleasures of this world.Had they come to life, they would have endured a misery casting them to destruction in trackless wildernesses.”
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“We laugh, but inept is our laughter;We should weep and weep sore,Who are shattered like glass, and thereafterRe-moulded no more!”
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“Men of acute mind call me an ascetic, but they are wrong in their diagnosis. Although I disciplined my desires, I only abandoned worldly pleasures because the best of these withdrew themselves from me.”
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“The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts:Those with brains, but no religion,And those with religion, but no brains.”
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“This wrong was by my father doneTo me, but ne’er by me to one.”
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0973· 1 entry
Born 0973-12.
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