6 Quotes by Abu Nuwas

Menkää kertomaan tuollejoka pitää itseään filosofina: Jotain sinä tiedät mutta paljosta jäät paitsi.

Auttakaa!Yö on pitkä,koti on kaukana,kumppani etäällä.

Decay spread in me low and high,Organ by organ, I see myself beginning to die,Not a single hour passes bywithout reducing part of me away.In obedience to self-desires all done,My youth fortune and strength all gone,And, only now, when moribund,did I remember to obey Allah!!Indeed we did misbehave, totally misbehavedYet, Ya Allah grant us forgiveness, clemency and pardon

I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.

Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!

You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!