ARABIC-L: LIT: Filial Afterthoughts for Comparison

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Date: 15 Jan 1999
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Filial Afterthoughts for Comparison

Filial Afterthoughts for Comparison


	(1) Ancient Greek:

		I lie at sixty here in peace,
		Dionysious of Taurus was my name,
		I married not, not children got;
		I wish my father did the same.

				Anonymous [BCE]



	(2) Classical Arabic:


		This wrong was by father done
		to me, but ne'er by me to one.

		[Haadhaa janaahu abii @alayya
		wa maa janaytu @ala aHad.]

				Abu 'l- at Alaa' 'l-Ma at arri (973 - 1057),
				an eminent medieval classical
				poet-philosopher.



	(3) Contemporary Arabic:


		Between Abu 'l- at Alaa' and me,
		there is a conflict on paternal devotion,
		to which I call the attention of all the wise:

		He sees his father's blessing a crime;
		I see my father's crime a blessing.


		[Bayni wa bayna Abi 'l- at Alaa'i qaDiyyatun
		fi 'l-birri astar at ii lahaa 'l-Hukamaa'a:
		huwa qad ra'aa nu at maa abiihi jinaayatan,
		wa ara 'l-jinaayata min abii na at maa'a.]


				Hafiz Ibrahim (1871 - 1932)

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