Al-Mutanabbi: Quotes about men

Al-Mutanabbi was Arabic poet from the Abbasid era. Explore interesting quotes on men.

Al-Mutanabbi: 26 quotes14 likes

“The desert knows me well, the night, the mounted men
The battle and the sword, the paper and the pen”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O04oUcNXmdI Context: When the lion bares his teeth, do not fancy that the lion shows to you a smile. I have slain the man that sought my heart's blood many a time, Riding a noble mare whose back none else may climb, Whose hind and fore-legs seem in galloping as one, Nor hand nor foot requireth she to urge her on. And O the days when I have swung my fine-edged glaive Amidst a sea of death where wave was dashed on wave! The desert knows me well, the night, the mounted men The battle and the sword, the paper and the pen

“He asks from men all that he has in himself, though even lions would not claim to match that.”

Al-Mutanabbi

From the poem "To Sayf Al-Dawla" http://web.archive.org/web/20140708175325/http://www.princeton.edu/~arabic/poetry/al_mu_to_sayf.html

“Beautiful women, as experienced men know,
Are but darkness wrapped in dazzling light aglow.
A life of friv'lous youth and worried age,
Its futile course to futile death will flow.”

Al-Mutanabbi

A Young Soul

“If all women were like as the one we have lost,
Then women would be preferred to men.
For the feminine gender is no shame for the sun,
Nor is the masculine gender an honor for the crescent moon”

Al-Mutanabbi