by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġazzālīy (c1058 - 1111)
Translation by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
Afin d’éterniser le mal et la douleur
Language: French (Français) after the Arabic (العربية)
Our translations: ENG
Afin d’éterniser le mal et la douleur, Nous baisons en tremblant la surface et la fleur D’un corps mortel qui loge en lui la pourriture, Tant la surface est tendre et douce l’imposture !
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 60.
Text Authorship:
- by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 97 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Arabic (العربية) by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġazzālīy (c1058 - 1111) [text unavailable]
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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