If immortality were offered to me exclusively, I would not … - al-Ma'arri

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If immortality were offered to me exclusively, I would not accept to be its sole beneficiary.
Let the rain refrain from watering me and my land, if its clouds do not cover the entire country.

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Abu al-'Ala Al-Ma'arri (26 December 973 – 9 May 1057) was an Arab philosopher, poet, and writer from Ma'arrat al-Numan (then part of the Abbasid Caliphate, today part of Syria).

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Native Name: أبو العلاء المعرّي

Alternative Names: Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī • al-Maʻarrī

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Fear of death pushed Seven Sleepers into a cave,
Made Noah and his son build a ship;
Nor did Moses and Adam think it pleasant to die
Though they were promised paradise.

How sad that I returned, how sad,
Instead of dying at Baghdad!
I say, whene'er things fall amiss,
"My coming home hath brought me this."

We laugh, but inept is our laughter;
We should weep and weep sore,
Who are shattered like glass, and thereafter
Re-moulded no more!

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