Note 14 — PREFACE.
Ameen Fares Rihani translation
We have the following from Adh-Dhahabi:
“One of these critics came one day to Abu’l-Ala and relating the conversation himself said, ‘What is it that is quoted and said about you?’ I asked.
‘It is false; they are jealous of me,’ he replied.
‘And what have you to incite their jealousy? You have left for them both this world and the other.’
‘And the other?’ murmured the poet, questioning, ruminating. ‘And the other, too?’” ↑