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Recently I reread the quatrains of Omar Khayyam. Unfortunately, in the English-speaking countries Ghiyās od-Dīn Abol-Fath Omār ibn Ebrāhīm Khayyām Neyshābūri mostly known through Edward Fitzgerald’s re-created translation of his quatrains (rubaiyat), which is quite far from the true spirit of the rubaiyat and based perhaps only on tenth part of the extant quatrains. In fact, the poetic heritage of this mathematician, philosopher, astrologer and poet of XI-XII cc. contains many true gems for a devotee of the spiritual evolution as well as for an astrologer.

The Lord has judged so, and there is no judgement over Him.
His decision no never turns into yes.
Perhaps, some possible thing is not existing, by chance.
But impossible one will never exist at all.

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