To understand the difference between European and Eastern civilizations, it is enough to listen to what they say in the Arab world about the eternal theme - love. Biologically, Europeans and Semitic peoples are the same species - a reasonable person, but mentally, psychologically, the differences are such that they cannot be overcome, but can only be united, if, of course, there is a desire. Eastern peoples are exceptionally sensual and live, so to speak, in love here and now. They do not understand European daydreaming, just as we do not understand their refined pragmatism in this area of human relations. Eastern wisdom says: to be happy in life, you need to eat meat, ride meat and stick meat into meat with love. In Europe, such a pragmatic image could not have arisen in principle.
Song of Songs and Eastern wisdom with it
This book of the Old Testament was created by Solomon, the wisest man of the wisest. And judging by his texts, it is so. The Song of Songs is a poem that thematically consists of two parts. In the first, the beloved speaks of his beloved, and in the second, the beloved speaks of his beloved. The physical temperament of both characters is amazing. They are each otherdescribe from head to toe, savoring every curve of the body of a loved one. Looking into the eyes in this concentrated wisdom is completely absent. She reports what a bliss it is - "to fall asleep on the shoulder of a loved one, hiding with his left hand, tiring his body with love." These are real quotes. Eastern wisdom gave them to the church, which interprets popular expressions allegorically. But give this book to an ignorant person, he will say that this is sublime erotica, a manifestation of the love of a man and a woman, which are described with the highest art, because no art is noticeable behind the simplicity of presentation. And Solomon does not touch on any moral criteria in his brilliant poem, because his sensual nature knows how to love not in the future, but now, on this bed. Solomon and his consanguineous people do not know other feelings in love.
A woman is a storehouse of pleasure
Arab warriors for faith in Paradise are waiting for the heavenly beauty of the houris. And Eastern wisdom about a woman speaks only from this side. Therefore, it is not surprising that women who have matured and moved away from their dawn 15–28 years cease to interest Arab poets. Even Omar Khayyam dedicates his enthusiasm to the "buds" of roses, on which "dews of tears tremble." And it is not for nothing that God in the Old Testament constantly blesses the Eastern woman with fertility. If she ceases to be a storehouse of pleasures, then she must find happiness in another, in the continuation of her ruler's family. The poet expresses his Arab understanding of love with incredible longing: “Even withtry to part with the most beautiful of dear friends without tears and without torment. All will pass. Beauty is fleeting: no matter how you hold it, it slips out of your hands. How can it be that love transcends time? Neither the Semitic poets nor the Semites themselves understand this. Their pragmatic worldview makes them value youth a hundred times more than Europeans can, who see themselves in their dreams as 40 years old. An Arab sees himself only as a 20-year-old, when “love burns hot” and “night and day” deprives a person. “Love is sinless, pure, because you are young”, - this is how an Arab poet expresses the general idea of his people.
“Like buds, love; like buds, fire"
While the blood burns and seethes, it makes sense to live until then, says Eastern wisdom about love. And he finishes: whoever has not fallen in love before twenty, is unlikely to ever love anyone. Therefore, it is not without reason that associations with the biblical “time to scatter and time to collect” arise. The eastern man perceives the transience of time as a punishment for his fiery desire to live. And in love, he, first of all, sees its transience.
And love is the same
It looks strange from a European point of view that in their folklore, in poetic culture and in worldly wisdom there are no motives for betrayal in love, as if this component in relations between a man and a woman does not exist in nature. But there is nothing strange, if you see love as an all-devouring young and fresh flame, like a rosebud, which only still lives with a premonition that a bumblebee will sit on it. And the conclusion: old age is worthy of wisdom, and youth is worthy of love. How are theymanage to distinguish between old age and youth, it is very difficult for Europeans to understand.
Love is the beginning of adulthood
No, this is not Eastern wisdom. This is the eastern rule about love, or even more than that - the law of life, which is strictly observed. Even stricter than the prescriptions of the Most High Prophet himself, who was one of those few Arabs who are able to love a woman not only sensually. And it is natural that in the Eastern world they discussed all aspects of the life of the prophet, except for this one. It is simply not natural to them. “Being a woman is a big problem. She is only a reward in love,” said the Avar poet Tazhuddin Chanka.
