If ye unto your sons would prove By act how dearly them ye love, Then every voice of wisdom joins To bid you leave them in your loins. - Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al

If ye unto your sons would prove By act how dearly them ye love, Then every voice of wisdom joins To bid you leave them in your loins. - Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī, Arab poet, 973-1057