Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Al-Mutanabbi

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a poet Al-Mutanabbi.
Last updated on December 6, 2024.
Al-Mutanabbi

Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī from Kufa, Abbasid Caliphate, was a famous Abbasid-era Arab poet at the court of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo, and for whom he composed 300 folios of poetry. His poetic style earned him great popularity in his time and many of his poems are not only still widely read in today's Arab world but are considered to be proverbial.

Poet | 915 - September 23, 965
If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you. — © Al-Mutanabbi
If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.
If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling at you.
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