Methink I am thrice-imprisoned—ask not me Of news that need no telling— By loss of sight, confinement in my house, And this vile body for my spirit’s… - al-Ma'arri

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.

Whenever I reflect, my reflecting upon what I suffer only rouses me to blame him that begot me.
And I gave peace to my children, for they are in the bliss of non-existence which surpasses all the pleasures of this world.
Had they come to life, they would have endured a misery casting them to destruction in trackless wildernesses.

The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.