I have no doubt that Abu Al-Alaa was like us, he liked people to know things about him, and he hated them knowing other things about him. The man took various precautions for this, and feared it with forms of piety. He puzzled and enigmatically, invented metaphors and metaphors, and revolved around many meanings, and did not want to delve into them in his poetry or prose for fear that people would appear to agree with his opinion, and that they would learn about him what they should not have been ignorant of, and would learn from his secret what he preferred to remain hidden. It is closed to them, and without them it is muffled. I know that knowledge imposes great burdens upon its possessors, and forces them to do some things that they do not like to be burdened with. Sometimes they are forced to tear curtains, expose secrets, and show people what they should not show about each other's affairs. These are the sacrifices that scientists make in order to reach the truth, and they are only comparable to what those with experimental sciences make by torturing animals for the sake of the pure knowledge they seek, or the knowledge that benefits people by protecting them from ills and pests. Taha Hussien
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