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| Andalusian Muslim Poets |
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| jannah |
| 08/19/05 at 11:20:25 |
| Look at the beautiful sun. As it rises, it shows one golden eyebrow, plays miser with the other one, but we know that soon it will spread out a radiant veil over all. A marvelous mirror that appears in the East only to hide again at dusk. The sky is saddened when the sun leaves and puts on mourning robes. I believe that falling stars are nothing more than sky's gem-hard tears. - Ibn Abi I-Haytham, Andalusia |
| 08/19/05 at 11:20:47 |
| jannah |
| The Storm |
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| jannah |
| 08/19/05 at 11:21:36 |
| The Storm The sky darkens: flowers open their mouths and search for their udders of the nurturing rain as battalions of black water-laden clouds parade majestically past flashing their golden swords. Ibn Shahayd (992-1034, Cordoba) |
| 08/19/05 at 11:29:58 |
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| jannah |
| 08/19/05 at 11:25:14 |
If white is the colour of mourning in Andalusia, it is a proper custom. Look at me, I dress myself in the white of white hair in mourning for youth. Abu l-Hasan al-Husri (d. 1095) (translated by Emilio Garcia Gomez & Cola Franzen) |
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| thezman |
| 09/08/05 at 00:15:54 |
| [slm] "Farewell" (Ibn Jakh) Regarding the Muslims being expelled from Spain after the fall of Granada... on the morning they left we said goodbye filled with sadness for the absence to come. inside the palanquins on the camel's backs I saw their faces beautiful as moons behind veils of golden cloth. beneath the veils tears crept like scorpions over the fragrant roses of their cheeks. these scorpions do not harm the cheek they mark they save their sting for the heart of the sorrowful lover. |
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| jannah |
| 09/08/05 at 00:29:25 |
| wlm, I've read that poem a number of times and never knew about the meaning behind it... jazakallah khair!! |
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| thezman |
| 09/08/05 at 01:41:27 |
| [slm] wa iyyaky insha allah :) |
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