The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur
What kind of faith have a rubaiyat
Faith and Religion
Faith and Religion
Throughout the poem, Fitzgerald translates Khayyam's words in a way that clearly distance them from the belief that there is an afterlife. The narrator of the poem urges the audience to not get caught up in thoughts on what might be, but rather live. This is especially vivid in quatrain 25, when scholars thinking about what might be are scorned for their philosophical behavior and reminded that all their efforts will be meaningless in death. The quatrains 44, 45 and 46 further discuss the concept through the lens of the Islamic religion. The narrator states that while Mohammed was a successful warrior, he led the spiritual thinking to others like the narrator. They then concluded that all that is clear is that there is a world, all other thought should be drowned in wine.