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1 " And when I think my thinking rouses me to blame he who created me, And I gave peace to my children for they are in the bliss of the abyssWhich surpasses all the pleasures of the world,And had they been born they would’ve endured misery "
― Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī , The Quatrains of Abu'l-ALA: Selected from His Lozum-Ma-La-Yalzam and Sact-Uz-Zind and Now First Translated Into English (Classic Reprint)