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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

"He had no sense of how to humor men, And that’s a sin too great to be excused."

Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

"Ibn Ḥamdūn declaimed: I gave my soul to love . . . And she answered on the spot: . . . and love ruled like a tyrant. He continued: So I became a humble slave . . . And she rejoined: . . . and followed where he went."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

“The wise man is not someone who can discern good from evil, but rather someone who can tell the better of two evils.”

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

"I thus declare: certain of our most eminent scholars have said that the woman is more honorable than the man, more imposing, nobler, more clem- ent, more virtuous, and more generous."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

"Let this be a lesson to all who would take heed: Do not be seduced by the world. It will only dupe and deceive you."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

"“Glory,” said she, “lies in change of location. If hopes could be attained through nobility of domicile, the sun would never leave its ovine station.”"

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

"Where are the folly of youth with its excesses so easily excused? Gone. Vanished. Now far away."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

"If you haven't seized what you've missed in life, go for it now and for as long as you can."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

"Blamers of love, go easy; I can never replace my love of him."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

"All people reveal their character when touched by hardship."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

"He said, “Just think, wife—we’ve lived together a goodly span of time.” “That’s all I think of,” she replied. The Fāriyāq resumed his narrative. “I asked her, ‘Hatefully or gratefully?’ and she replied, ‘Half the latter and half the former.’"

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"Worries besiege me in swelling numbers. As I lie awake, my heart bleeds for a reason: what use blaming lovers inflamed by passion?"

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

"Early, when the pink of dawn glows in the dark, I go hunting."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

"A sun, whose approach makes plain that the sun itself need not trouble to rise, You grow, despite your years, in brightness and in beauty as wine grows more delicate in its old age."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

“Whenever her nightly phantom visits me my eyes are hurt, my tear ducts overflow, with tears like pearls let loose—strung on a string, but now the string has let them down.”

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

"My heart is a valley that’s crawling with locusts; at night, they strip every shrub bare of its leaves. It’s as if I’m in a wooden ship tossed by a raging sea, swollen by the storm winds that drive the surging waves,"

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

"Judge with the eye of rationality and judicious calculation, not that of passion and foolish, inconsequential speculation!"

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

"Nothing in existence can be still, not even for a single moment in time,"

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

"Love is one of those things specific to the stage beyond the intellect"

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

“Whoever has love in his mind deserves to have a friend who shares his mind with him and doesn’t hold back his thoughts.”

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

"I’d rather have a slab of rock for a pillow than sleep on a soft carpet in a land of ignominy."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

"While the verses it contains are like bricks in their stacking, and there are learned discussions free for the taking. Gaze on it well and peruse it truly and very soon you’ll find your stomach’s unruly!"

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

"Friendship never prevented him from intervening when someone he cared for behaved badly or wronged anyone else."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

"I wander the palace, but I see no one, no one will answer my plaint, it would seem, I feel as though I’ve committed a sin, one I can repent of but can never redeem."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

"My very separation from people saves me contamination whereas their proximity infects both mind and faith. Just as a line of poetry, if left on its own, cannot be affected by common faults."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

"The measure of their dedication will determine the honor they reap, and the graces they enjoy in this world and the next."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

"Those who most deserve to share your happiness are those who comfort you in adversity."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

"With my right hand I took what I pleased when I saw the sun’s colors burst in full glory, I took from it my desire, with my right hand. But death is preferable to the ignominy of ignorance, living a wretched life, devoid of any certainty." A Hundred and One Nights, translated by Bruce Fudge

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

"Man is but the words that live on after him, so let those be worthy in the eyes of those who take note."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

"The woman is one of those things that, like the sun or the moon, are so much looked at that the mind doesn’t pay them the attention they deserve."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"Don’t hold the hurt in! This much is certain; Pull down the curtain, And feel no shame!"

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

"The Great King is seen in public only every ten months, for he says, “If the people see me more often, they will look on me with less reverence,"

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

"Righteous struggle is of three types: The first to be overcome in this struggle is the hand, next the tongue, and next the heart. If the heart cannot recognize good or decry evil, it is upended and turned topsy-turvy."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

"A man’s roots make for good or bad, as the quality of grain is determined by the seed." Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir, Arabian Satire, translated by Marcel Kurpershoek

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

"Through the night he guards you, risking his very life; in self-giving lies the highest form of generosity. Search out his equal among all mankind and seek what the world does not contain."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

"There is no love till eyes flow with tears, and you’re struck dumb and can’t answer the caller!"

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

"No matter how hard ou strive, success often stems from weakness and ambition often comes to naught."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

"If I were dead and she called to me with her melodious voice, verily I would hurry from my grave to do her bidding."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

"Worldly goods do not constitute wealth—true wealth is the wealth of the soul."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

"Effortless in her slaughter, she seemed from afar like a black maddah drawn by a stylus, exchanging flesh for blood."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

"A garden of roses, all entwined in lush narcissus that surround the blooming chamomile. The one seems to us like cheeks, the other eyes resembles, the last a row of teeth." Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī al-Miṣr, The Sword of Ambition, translated by Luke B. Yarbrough

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

"I won’t be able to outrun Fate when she comes. Cowards run. I stand my ground, despite my comrades my men of honor dead by dusk."

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

"As a young child grows up he learns what he hears from adults and it stays with him forever." Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī, The Epistle of Forgiveness Vol. 2, translated by Geert Jan van Gelder and Gregor Schoeler