Day: July 16, 2021

Thales was a Greek Astronomer from 600BC. As he was looking at the stars he fell into a ditch. He was shouting for help. An old woman said to him: "O Thales, you cannot even see what is under your feet and yo...

It has been reported: قال سليمان بن عبد الملك لعمر بن أبي ربيعة ما يمنعك من مدحنا قال إني لا أمدح الرجال إنما أمدح النساء The Umayyad caliph, Sulaiman bin Abdul-Malik asked the poet Omar bin Abi Rabia: "What stops you from praising me?"...

An Andalusian poet noticed the sun shining on his wife’s face, so he said the following lines of poetry: ‎فَقُلْتُ يَا عَجَبًا الشَّمْسُ فِي القَمَرِ ‎وَالشَّمْسُ لا يَنْبَغِي أنْ تُدْرِكَ القَمَرَا So I said: "How strange! the sun, on the m...