{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp081.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp081.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp081.htm","text":"Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]\n[ABU ALI flourished in Egypt about a.h. 530, and was equally celebrated as a mathematician and as a poet. In the following odd composition he seems to have united these two discordant characters.]\nIt is not this or that alone\n \u00a0\u00a0On whom my choice would fall:\n I do not more incline to one\n \u00a0\u00a0Than I incline to all.\nThe circle's bounding line are they;\n \u00a0\u00a0Its centre is my heart;\n My ready love, the equal ray\n \u00a0\u00a0That flows to every part.","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: On Love, by Abu Ali, The Mathematician","type":"page"}