3 Quotes by Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī

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

Humanity follows two world-wide sects:One, man intelligent without religion,The second, religious without intellect.

This crime was by my father done -To me, but never by me to one." (in regards to life and being born)