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Abu Nuwas (756โ814) was an Arab poet who lived in Baghdad during the Abbasid era. He is known for composing poetry about love, sex and wine.
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โThere are no poems on wine equal to my own, and to my amatory compositions all others must yield.โ
โุฏูุนู ุนููููู ููููู
ูู ููุฅููู ุงููููููู
ู ุฅุบูุฑูุงุกู
• Cease your reproach, for reproach is only temptation.โ
• Cease your reproach, for reproach is only temptation.โ
โSay, then, to whom affects learning in philosophy
Knowing one thing doesnโt comprise an education
Donโt forbid others what you choose to eschew
For prohibition is, in religion, desecrationโ
Knowing one thing doesnโt comprise an education
Donโt forbid others what you choose to eschew
For prohibition is, in religion, desecrationโ
โุฃูุง ูุงุณูููู ุฎู
ุฑุงูุ ููู ูู: ููู ุงูุฎู
ุฑู ููุง ุชุณููู ุณุฑูุงู ุฅุฐุง ุฃู
ูู ุงูุฌูุฑู
• Give me wine, and tell me: 'This is wine!โ Do not be furtive while it is possible to be open.โ
• Give me wine, and tell me: 'This is wine!โ Do not be furtive while it is possible to be open.โ
โO Lord, even though I have committed many sins
I understand that Your forgiveness... is far greater!
If only those whoโre pure can hope for Your mercy:
whom else can one be seeking help, for the sinner?
Lord, Iโm humbly asking You, like You told me to:
who will pity me if of my hand, Youโre not a taker?
There is no other way I have to You, but the hope
that as a Muslim You will be You... the Forgiver!โ
I understand that Your forgiveness... is far greater!
If only those whoโre pure can hope for Your mercy:
whom else can one be seeking help, for the sinner?
Lord, Iโm humbly asking You, like You told me to:
who will pity me if of my hand, Youโre not a taker?
There is no other way I have to You, but the hope
that as a Muslim You will be You... the Forgiver!โ
โAuspicious stars had risen on this night
When drunkard assaulted drunkard
We passed the time kowtowing to the Devil,
Until the monks sounded the bells at dawn
And [a young adolescent] left, dragging delightful robes
Which I had stained with my iniquitous behavior,
Saying, "O woe!" as tears overcame him,
"You have torn away the [dignity] I had preserved."
I replied, "A lion saw a gazelle and lunged at it;
Such is the variety of Fateโs vicissitudes!"โ
When drunkard assaulted drunkard
We passed the time kowtowing to the Devil,
Until the monks sounded the bells at dawn
And [a young adolescent] left, dragging delightful robes
Which I had stained with my iniquitous behavior,
Saying, "O woe!" as tears overcame him,
"You have torn away the [dignity] I had preserved."
I replied, "A lion saw a gazelle and lunged at it;
Such is the variety of Fateโs vicissitudes!"โ
โPoured from the palm of a girl dressed as boy
An intrigue for one of any orientation
She lifts the carafe against the black night
Her face lit with brilliant radiation
Sending from the jugโs lip a stream so bright
That eyes, in its glare, close as in sedation
Wine so fine, so pure and delicate
To add water would be contamination
With light alone may it be mixed
Giving off dazzling illuminationโ
An intrigue for one of any orientation
She lifts the carafe against the black night
Her face lit with brilliant radiation
Sending from the jugโs lip a stream so bright
That eyes, in its glare, close as in sedation
Wine so fine, so pure and delicate
To add water would be contamination
With light alone may it be mixed
Giving off dazzling illuminationโ
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โHe played with sacred formulae, such as the call to prayer: "Come to prayer!" is rendered, in one profane turn, "Come to sleep-together!"โ
About Abu Nuwas
Abu Nuwas (756โ814) was an Arab poet who lived in Baghdad during the Abbasid era. He is known for composing poetry about love, sex and wine.