My fascination with the old ways
I have this fascination with the old days that most people find pecuilar. I find them pecuilar because they are ignorant of their own history and heritage. How can you not be entranced by the great poetry that has been left behind for us? A rich inheritance that i am grateful for. I embrace it and cherish it.
Here is a sample....
Literal:
Signs of destiny have always beenThose hands inscribed both good and meanWhat was written, came from the unseenThough we tried without and worried within.
Meaning:
One is great
Who faces fateBefore it’s late,
AppreciateThe destined state
No matter how much we debate
Oppose, engage, or calculate
Even try to accelerate
Fate only moves at its own rate.
Futile is worry, anger and hate
Joy is the only worthy mate.
-Omar Khayyam
( Rubaiyat)
posted by Arabized at
1:29 AM
30 Comments:
mabrook on your first blog and first post!
interesting you changed your nick to Arabized yet your first post is about Persian literature :)
good stuff.. looking forward to more!
haha you found me!
I couldnt think of a name :/
I may go threw a few names till i find the one that suits me the most.
Well yea its persian literature, but they are soo connected to who we are. I thought he wrote mostly in arabic though? maybe im wrong. But during that time, most of the scholars perfered to write in arabic.
As the Prophet Muhammad (SWS)
"Being an Arab is not because of your father or mother, but being an Arab is on account of your tongue. Whoever learns Arabic is an Arab."
And as you obviously know i just love omar khayyam's work, so it had to be my first post!
Thanks for the comment!
As the Prophet Muhammad (SWS)
"Being an Arab is not because of your father or mother, but being an Arab is on account of your tongue. Whoever learns Arabic is an Arab."
More Muslims and Arab need to think of that, people here are just so racist (at least I think they are) that they would call other arabs they are not arab because they are not 'pure arabs' so annoying! and does that mean that if we speak English we are not Arab? Lematha? Hasanan, I will speak arabic.
welcome on board -
haha this may get a little complicated if we debate that. I think the prophet(sws) said that because the arabs and muslims were not connected and this made it so that they share a common link. You know how arabs when they leave the middle east they think they are better than the rest because they know arabic therefor more 'knowledgable' which is such B.S.
so much pride and arrogance :/ what can we do?
(jazaks) thanks moryarti!
who is this?
emirati, what do you mean who is this?
".... it is I, King Arthur, and these are my knights of the round table."
haha sorry i just couldn't resist saying that.
Good stuff Biz.. i never heard that 7adeeth before but i know this one for the Prophet (pbuh) :
"there is no difference between an Arab and a 3ajami except with taqwa"
3ajami literally translates to Persian, but in Arabic this word is used where non-Arabs are intended. As for taqwa, well I don't think I can translate that bit it loosely means "fear of God".
As we're on the subject of Khayyam I'm glad to say you're one of the first Arabs I know who has not called him Al-Khayyam. I hate it when we think that all people need an "Al" in their surnames!
last year i started reading some of the ruba3iyaat of Khayyam translated by Mustafa Wahbi Al-Tall (1899-1949), Jordanian born. They are very very heavy, and I don't think I understood many of them. I found it amusing to read the Persian text sometimes as I would understand a few words scattered in the four lines.
I am yet to finish that book.
by the way very typical of emirati to arrogantly ask who is this.. might it not be more polite to introduce yourself rather than ask... unless you're asking the question about the poet, in which case clearer wording of the question would benifit the reader and the writer alike.
True that we have a lot in common with the Persians.. I have pointed that out a few times to my Emirati friends and they are quite sensitive about this.. however I like to think that we're of different origins but have moved slightly closer post-Islam, and now we're probably trying to distance ourselves.
looking forward to post number two.
I dont see us as having much to do with the Persians anymore. And BUJ, I was asking who it was, I speculated she was rana, and was asking briefly, no need for a boring victorian style speech for that. I always have your blog to look at.
baby face....are you living in fear for the day that Iran comes knocking on your door?
Chill man....no one will ever mistake you for an ajami...unless you have a flat head of course....in which case you are doomed.
bah bah bah
>>....no one will ever mistake you for an ajami...unless you have a flat head of course....in which case you are doomed.<<
I missed the joke? fill me in pleaseeeeeeee!
Hahaha. I find it HILARIOUS that everyone keeps calling her RANA!
:/
why is it an insult to call an emirati 3eeemi?
did you know that the iranians themselves hate the arabs?
it's just blind stupid racism. i don't see how racism can come in any other flavour though
Anyone who is for Arab-Iranian reconcilliation is living in a dream world. The Arabs heavily supported the Iraqis for 8 years in the mass butchering known as the Iran-Iraq war. As a result, naturally, the Persian-Arab Grudge has come back. Once the Americans leave it will rekindle. Do you think that we will not suffer the consequences? Again, time to be realistic.
I have nothing against any Emarati of any origin as long as they realise that their loyalty is to the UAE, first foremost.
And CG, I dont have a flat head, but I know that if the Iranians ever come knocking, it will be after they made a landing on yours.
Biz,
I thought you might be interested with this book by our favorite Amin Maalouf, In the Name of Identity.
I've read it. It's a bit short but really good. In this non-fiction book Amin uses his powerful tools of imagery that he's known for in fiction works such as Samarkand .
oh emirati....what a sad thing to say to me. And where exactly do you think they will land? On my what?
Fortunately I consider myself a poor target for any attack, so safe I am, except of course from you.
Leaving Fujariah on the way back to Dubai, we passed by a store with the name OMAR AL KHAYYAM STORE.
I didn't have a chance to take a picture :/
I busted out laughing at pointed out to the others that they put AL in front of KHAYYAM. bwhahaah.
It would have been a kodak moment. khasara.
EXACTLY! the little "AL" really pisses me off when it's added to non Arabic names such as Omar Khayyam's. agggggh..
Just because Omar is an Arabic name it doesn't mean that Khayyam is (even though it derives from "tent").
Trust me there will be more Kodak moments like these. I am sure I spotted a few Al-Khayyam stores in Dubai.
How was the East-Coast?
oh it was GREAT. the weather was nice but no tsunami. Even though we didn't leave the hotel and we only went to the beach 10 minutes before we checked out. :D
and Friday market... -slaps self-
The friday market was awesome! It was like a little festivel, people walking around eating corn and drinking from real coconuts. I had fun! even though I got out of the car 5 mins before we had to leave, but its all good.
oh you didn't mention people eating FISH. or dried fish or whatever that is that smelled so bad!
haha yea, we thought it was sour candy becaue i mean it was orange and people were eating it? when they gave it to us, we were all so happy, but then we realized ONCE THE SMELL OVERCAME US, that it was fish?! and you could hear the shrieks and screams and asking the driver to take it away!
oh u make me homesick both of u..
we used to go to these places every friday when i was a kid.. we used to stop by masafi market.. obviously it was tiny in those days just a few stalls with guys selling grilled corn on the cob, some coconuts and candyfloss (ghazl el banat).. and that's it.. oh yea and some pots from pakistan and iran.
very surreal.. reminded me so vividly of the days of the past..
next time ur in those areas check out the UAE's oldest mosque! it's in that area, not sure where.. but it's so cool with 4 domes and even if it's 40C outside it's always a cool 25C inside.. no a/c of course.
we will probably go back one day... maybe... in a few ... years.
... and check the masjid. I think I passed by it once.
haha in a few years?
and I SAW THAT MASJID ON THE WAY THERE, and i was telling them to take a picture, but of course we didnt catch it in time. :/
one question: whats with all the russians there?
cool! the russians converted and are praying.. and they wanna start with the oldest masjid :)
next time ask your driver to stop (if u can) and get inside the masjid.. it's worth it, trust me.
no, i meant the russians in fujariah?! they are everywhere, and in the hotels things are written in russian...
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