Note that the first arab thinker, that rejected western abrahamic
religions in favour of indian mystical philosophy, was the ninth
century syrian humanistic poet, abu el 3alay el ma3arri, where he
says in his luzuwm mae lae yalzum:
The holy fights by Moslem heroes fought,
The saintly works by Christian hermits wrought
And those of Jewry or of Sabian creed --
Their valour reaches not the Indian's deed
Whom zeal and awe mystically inspire
To cast his body on the flaming pyre.
Yet is man's death a long, long sleep of lead
And all his life a waking. O'er our dead
The prayers are chanted, hopeless farewells taken;
And there we lie, never to stir again.
Shall I so fear in mother earth to rest?
How soft a cradle is thy mother's breast!
When once the viewless spirit from me is gone,
By rains unfreshed let my bones rot on!
FOR MORE ON THIS HUMANIST-POET GO TO:
http://geocities.com/meta_cognitron/ma3arri.htm
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