Neither Belief nor Unbelief by Sona Grigoryan

Author:Sona Grigoryan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2022-11-15T09:16:33.631000+00:00

55.

wa-l-marʾu yaghshāhu l-adhā min ḥaythu lā

yakhshāhu fa-ʿujib min ṣurūfi l-ad’hurī,

wa-Muḥammadun wa-huwa l-munabbaʾu yashtakī

li-makāni aklatihi nqiṭāʿa l-abharī. (Lz1. 397. 11 – 12)

Disaster overtakes man from directions

they do not expect; marvel at the adversities of the fates.

And Muḥammad, although informed, complained of

[his] vein being severed at the place of his meal.

The reference is to the event during which Muḥammad’s prophetic faculty was tested and confirmed by a local woman, Zaynab, who poisoned the Prophet’s food, and the latter, knowing it, spat the food out. However, later the Prophet fell ill because of the food given by Zaynab, thus eventually not meeting the “prophetic test.”565

Prophetic books, the poet tells us, are total lies fabricated by humans. In the following verse, al-Maʿarrī strips Scripture of any divine value:

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