@jebrilworld: “How astonishing it is how many deficient people claim virtue, And how sorrowful it is how often deficiency appears as excellence.” Abu al-Ala al-Maʿarri often writes from a place of deep, sustained sorrow, and many of his themes—weariness with life, moral exhaustion, and estrangement from society—are consistent with what we might today describe as chronic depression, though expressed through the intellectual and poetic language of his time. #sad #depression #أبو_علاء_المعري #poetry #philosphy