Nawal Nasrallah

Of Bread and Flies

Medieval Reflections

Appears in
Delights from the Garden of Eden
Delights from the Garden of Eden

By Nawal Nasrallah

Published 2019

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Life is like a bread smeared with honey.
A fly fell for it, got stuck, and lost its wings and died. Had it been content with plain dry bread, it would have survived.

(al-Dhahabi, Tareekh al-Islam, my translation)

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