Who wants a cookie?
See if you can figure out what's wrong with this opening page from a manuscript entitled "Risālah fī al-bawāsīr" from c. 1187 CE composed, here, in the Maghribī style and originally written by Abū ‘Imrān Mūsá ibn ‘Ubayd Allāh Ibn Maymūn al-Qurtūbī (Anglicized: Maimonides). It's kind of amusing, unless I'm tripping out at 3 in the morning. Double points for figuring out what the title means. No cheating - only your brain and other people's brains. No encyclopedias or dictionaries.
Don't answer, Mus'ab.
Don't answer, Mus'ab.
posted by Wanksta at 1:08 AM
13 Comments:
The passage is in inverted Arabic.
Who are you, oh commentator, that we may shower thee with praise?
i am not the original "anonymous" person. nor, do i wanna take away from his/her fame. but, to be honest, it was not as hard as you made it out to be when you originally posted.
nice try.
Taqee, that better not be a monologue!!! Because that would be really cheap bhai.
Did you just liken me to an encyclopedia? Because that is just great.
Cookies are dangerous; showers of praise are deadly.
Would that it were, Samira - because I am indeed cheap.
And no, Mus'ab, you're not a human encyclopedia, you're a human Qur'an, get it right.
And it's okay, anonymous 2 - you don't have to admit to reading this blog - but Hasan beat everyone.
i guess i fail to see the humor. maybe i'm missing something.
i was wondering whether you flipped the pic or found it like that.
and why would you need an encyclopedia or dictionary to figure out what's wrong?
unless, as i posited earlier, i am missing something.
you are missing something.
what's to miss?
that hemorrhoids are brought on by chocolate chips?
Taqee:
Go with tyranny if it's instinctual. For the sake of Allah.
Seriously - see what we're dealing with here, Samira? I'm bout to tyrannize up in this piece.
Either that, or Hasan should stop posting like an anonymous pansy.
Major afterpost:
This was funny because it was on the National Institutes of Health website and those fools didn't even bother to put the page in the correct orientation. That is somewhat insulting and mostly amusing, taken in conjunction with the subject matter contained therein.
Post a Comment
<< Home