Your hand can seize today,
but not tomorrow;
and thoughts of your tomorrow
are nothing but desire.
Don’t waste this breath,
if your heart isn’t crazy,
since ‘the rest of your life’
won’t last forever.
trans. Juan Cole
from Whinfield 30
Your hand can seize today,
but not tomorrow;
and thoughts of your tomorrow
are nothing but desire.
Don’t waste this breath,
if your heart isn’t crazy,
since ‘the rest of your life’
won’t last forever.
trans. Juan Cole
from Whinfield 30
Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page
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