{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp053.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp053.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp053.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Islam\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \nBuy this Book at Amazon.com\n \n \nArabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]\n \n p. 126\n EPIGRAM\n ON\n EBN NAPHTA-WAH.\n BY MOHAMMED BEN ZEID ALMOTAKALAM.\n \n [IN order to understand Ben Zeid's Charade. we must remark that, in Arabic, Naphta signifies a combustible not very much unlike our gunpowder, and that Wah is an exclamation of sorrow.]\n \n BY the former with ruin and death we are curst;\n \u00a0\u00a0In the latter we grieve for the ills of the first;\n And as for the whole where together they meet,\n \u00a0\u00a0It's a drunkard, a liar, a thief, and a cheat.\n \n \n \n Next: Fire: A Riddle","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: Epigram On Ebn Naphta-Wah, by Mohammed Ben Zeid Almotakalam","type":"page"}