Ok. So we were in english and were reading muslim literature and the teachers all like "ok any comments" or w.e and I raise my hand, Giving my opinion on this. (I found this story more of a blind leading the blind type of thing) and She was all like "no no blah blah blah its this way blah blah blah" THEN she turns around and wants me to write one in the way I saw it XD UGH. (this was HW for me only btw >> of course no one else gets it they never talk!)

So, heres what we read:


The marks of the wise man, of the half wise, and of the fool. ( in the Masanavi (Sp?))

The wise man is he who possesses a torch of his own;
He is the guide and leader of the caravan.
That leader is his own director and light;
That illuminated one follows his own lead.
He is his own protector; do ye also seek protection
From that light whereon his soul is nurtured.
The second, he, namely, who is half wise,
Knows the wise man to be the light of his eyes.
He clings to the wise man like a blind man to his guide,
So as to become possessed of the wise man's sight.
But the fool, who has no particle of wisdom,
Has no wisdom of his own, and quits the wise man.
He knows nothing of the way, great or small,
And is ashamed to follow the footsteps of the guide.
He wanders into the boundless desert,
Sometimes halting and despairing, sometimes running.
He has no lamp wherewith to light himself on his way,
Nor half a lamp which might recognize and seek light.
He lacks wisdom, so as to boast of being alive,
And also half wisdom, so as to assume to be dead?
That half wise one became as one utterly dead
In order to rise up out of his degradation.
If you lack perfect wisdom, make yourself as dead
Under the shadow of the wise, whose words give life.
The fool is neither alive so as to companion with 'Isa,
Nor yet dead so as to feel the power of 'Isa's breath.
His blind soul wanders in every direction,
And at last makes a spring, but springs not upwards.

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And~ Here is mine XD >>
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Idk what to call it yet. Untitled:

In a time of questioning and wonder
One who forms an opinion or ideal is exalted
This man is thought to be wise, and he thinks himself to be wise.
But thats all it is, thoughts. And people follow them.
And then there are the followers,
Who adopt and accept beliefes.
Each believe what they are told,
And trust whom they believe in;
The one they call wise.
Who leads them in his way.
And then there are the radicals, the independants, and the abstract,
Who are shunned and classified as fools.
These are the ones percieved to have no purpose,
To have no point or need in existance. Lost and alone because of "pride".
But in the end not the followers, the wiseman, nor the independant
Can see any further than any of the others.
For when the blind search for divine light,
No blind man can find it.

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She wants it longer XD so i'll have to edit it, this is its rough draft stage or w.e

Is it ok? XD opinions? D: tips? idk, discuss~