why did God - the Creator - give me existence?įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox. given human mortality is is best to guide our lives by the dictates of reason, or sensuality? what is the ultimate benefit derived from human knowledge? In his Rubáiyát, the author ponders the limits of human knowledge and morality: and confronts his readers point-blank with the difficult questions that challenge every generation: Omar's writings are pervaded by the consciousness of the transient quality of life. Fitzgerald's selection loosely groups quatrains by theme rendering quatrains into English as four-line, rhymed stanzas. The best known English translations are those by Edward Fitzgerald: his fifth (and last) translation includes a mere 101 quatrains - a fraction of Omar's original work. Omar's Rubaiyat is a beautiful anthology of Islamic wisdom literature: originally penned in medieval Persian during the late 11th century AD. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is so-named from the Persian word rubáiyát - a Persian word denoting a specific type of two-line stanza. LibriVox recording of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
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