Abu Nuwas Quotes

Abu Nuwas's collection bursts with bold, rebellious musings on freedom, pleasure and choice.

5 quotes

1. Critic, relent! Your hope for repentance Will meet with disapppointment. For this is the life, Not desert tents, Not camel's milk!

2. You, mad to expect repentance, Tear your robe all you want; I will never repent!

3. I bought abandon dear And sold all piety for pleasure. My own free spirit I have followed, And never will I give up lust.

4. “Auttakaa! Yö on pitkä, koti on kaukana, kumppani etäällä.”

5. “Decay spread in me low and high, Organ by organ, I see myself beginning to die, Not a single hour passes by without reducing part of me away. In obedience to self-desires all done, My youth fortune and strength all gone, And, only now, when moribund, did I remember to obey Allah!! Indeed we did misbehave, totally misbehaved Yet, Ya Allah grant us forgiveness, clemency and pardon”