[L]
“Rabbi,” my lord God.
[LVI]
This quatrain is quoted by many of the Biographers of Abu’l-Ala to prove that he is a materialist. Which argument is easily refuted, however, with others quatrains taken at random from the Luzumiyat.
[LVII], [LVIII] and [LIX]
Omar was also a confessed cynical-hypocrite. Thus runs the first line of the 114th quatrain of Heron-Allen’s:
“The world being fleeting I practise naught but artifice.”