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Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri
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“O Damascus, be strong in the face of hardships / as gold being melted many times but never burns out.”
Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri (1899–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Khaleel, Ahmed (2015) The Poetics of Human Rights: Auden and al-Jawahiri in the 1930s. PhD thesis, University of York, citing as "Dimashq Jabhat al-Majd": 44.
“Do you know or do you not know that the wounds of victims are a mouth?”
Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri (1899–1997) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the poem "My Brother Jaʿfar", as quoted in Thompson, E. F. (2018). The 1948 Wathba Revisited. International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies
“أكلما عصفت بالشعب عاصفة هوجاء نستصرخ القرطاس و القلما هل أنقذ الشام كتاب بما كتبوا أو شاعر صان بغدادا بما نظما”
Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri (1899–1997) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bleeding Palestine (1929)
“سلى الحوادث و التاريخ هل عرفا حقا ورأيا بغير القوة احترما”
Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri (1899–1997) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bleeding Palestine (1929)
“They boast that a towering tyrannical wave has blocked the path to every outlet and escape But they lie, for my verses fill the mouth of time endlessly traversing from the east to the west Tearing them from their youth and dropping them to their fate, destroying their grand palace of lies For I am their death, bringing their houses upon them, inciting even doormen and babies to curse their name!”
Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri (1899–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What further wishes and desires / do you seek from life Have you been offered / to see all your dreams come true And the mighty hands were / willing to satisfy you But you love to suffer / like the pious’ love for adhān.”
Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri (1899–1997) first seen 1353 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the poem "Fī al-Sijn", lines 1– 4, as quoted in Khaleel, A.F. (2016). Suffering and Techniques of Poetic Resistance: Mohammed Mahdi al-Jawahiri's "In Jail" and W. H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts". Journal of Liter…