Khayyam, why do you
beat yourself up
over your lapses?
What’s the profit or loss
in regret?
Whoever hasn’t sinned
can’t be forgiven.
Forgiveness came
for sinning–
why drown in remorse?
Translated by Juan Cole
from Whinfield 46
Khayyam, why do you
beat yourself up
over your lapses?
What’s the profit or loss
in regret?
Whoever hasn’t sinned
can’t be forgiven.
Forgiveness came
for sinning–
why drown in remorse?
Translated by Juan Cole
from Whinfield 46
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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