When will they announce the death of the Arabs? - Nizar Qabbani (excerpt)

[Soulja]

For fifty years, I have been watching the state of the Arabs.
And they thunder, but never rain...
They enter wars, but never leave...
They keep chewing scraps of wisdom
But never digest it...

For fifty years, I have been trying to draw a land
Called - remarkably - the land of the Arabs;
I drew sometimes in the colour of arteries
And sometimes in the colour of anger.
And when the drawing was finished, I asked myself:
If someday they announced the death of the Arabs...
Then where would they be buried?
And who would cry over them?
They have no daughters...
They have no sons...
And there is no grief,
And there is no one to grieve!!
- Nizar Qabbani

[.: Anna :.]

hey we were looking @ that poem the other day in the Arabic forum :)

but as for the poem in ur sig... is that the full poem or is it an extract?? and what's it called?? have u got it in arabic by any chance??

I like Qabbani but I hadnt seen that one before

[AbuMubarak]

hey we were looking @ that poem the other day in the Arabic forum :)

but as for the poem in ur sig... is that the full poem or is it an extract?? and what's it called?? have u got it in arabic by any chance??

I like Qabbani but I hadnt seen that one beforeهسام كباني؟

[Khuzamah]

هسام كباني؟

laa... afkar an ismuhu nizaar qabbaani? :scratch: man hisaam??

[AbuMubarak]

For fifty years, I have been watching the state of the Arabs.
And they thunder, but never rain...
They enter wars, but never leave...
They keep chewing scraps of wisdom
But never digest it...

For fifty years, I have been trying to draw a land
Called - remarkably - the land of the Arabs;
I drew sometimes in the colour of arteries
And sometimes in the colour of anger.
And when the drawing was finished, I asked myself:
If someday they announced the death of the Arabs...
Then where would they be buried?
And who would cry over them?
They have no daughters...
They have no sons...
And there is no grief,
And there is no one to grieve!!
- Nizar Qabbanihttp://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31113&highlight=nationalism

[AbuMubarak]

laa... afkar an ismuhu nizaar qabbaani? :scratch: man hisaam??hishaam is some bigtime naqshbandi sufi sheikh

[.: Anna :.]

hishaam is some bigtime naqshbandi sufi sheikh

oh ok.... nizaar qabbani is he muslim or christian? cos some of his poems he mentioned christmas tree in it, and church bells? but others he mentions islamic stuff? so i was wondering

[AbuMubarak]

maybe they are brothers

[.: Anna :.]

maybe they are brothers

allahu alam :confused:

well I think nizar is qabbani spelt with a qaaf though, on the front on my book its spelt that way... so thts different?

oh well... whatever :p