{"id":4510,"date":"2012-04-10T11:29:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T11:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2014-07-11T15:27:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T15:27:44","slug":"the-arabic-art-of-hinting-with-the-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/the-arabic-art-of-hinting-with-the-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arabic Art of Speaking with the Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tongues have their language.<\/p>\n

But \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0639\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0646\u00a0<\/strong>(the eyes) are endowed with their own kind of language as well.<\/p>\n

Whatever\u00a0\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0650\u0651\u0633\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0627\u0646<\/strong> (the tongue) is denied to express through plain words, the eye is at liberty to convey with the utmost ease, subtlety, and, yes,\u00a0even eloquence!<\/p>\n

To help us decipher the cryptic language of the eyes, we turn to an Andalusian\u00a0Maestero<\/em><\/strong> who elevated this subliminal language to a fine art in its own right.<\/p>\n

The Spanish-born Imam, scientist, and philosopher, whose tongue and eye-sight were so sharp and whose pen was so mighty as to deserve by friends and foes the deferential nickname of “\u0645\u0650\u0646\u062c\u0646\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0642 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628<\/strong>” (“The Catapult of Arabs”) and “\u0645\u0650\u0646\u062c\u0646\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0642 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u063a\u0631\u0628<\/strong>” (“The Catapult of the Maghreb”):<\/p>\n

That, ladies and gents, is the sophisticated “Weapon of Mass Instruction<\/em><\/span><\/strong>” readily found whenever needed:\u00a0\u0627\u0628\u0646 \u062d\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0632\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0646\u062f\u0644\u0633\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u064a\u00a0<\/strong>(Ibn Hazm Al-Andalusi<\/strong>)!<\/strong><\/p>\n

“\u0627\u0644\u0625\u0634\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640<\/strong>\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640<\/strong>\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640<\/strong>\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0627\u0631\u0629 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0639\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640<\/strong>\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640<\/strong>\u0640<\/strong>\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640<\/strong>\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0646”
\n(“Of Hinting with The Eye<\/em>“):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This is the Ninth Chapter of Ibn Hazm’s “\u0637\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0648\u0642 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0645\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0629” (“The Ring of the Dove”), written in 1022 A.D.<\/strong>
\n Coincidentally, 1022 A.D. is the same year Robert II of France, called “The Pious”, would start burning Catharists at the stake in the Southern city of France, Toulouse, located then at not such a great distance from the Muslim-ruled city of\u00a0\u0642\u0631\u0637\u0628\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0629 (C\u00f3rdoba),\u00a0Ibn Hazm’s Spanish hometown, which was by contrast widely famous for its religious tolerance towards Jews and Christians<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2666\u00a0Ibn Hazm<\/strong> says<\/span>:<\/p>\n

\u00ab<\/strong>\u00a0After\u00a0<\/em>\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0639\u0631\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0636<\/strong> (verbal \u0003allusion), once the lover’s advance has been accepted and an accord established, the next following step consists in hinting with<\/em> \u0644\u062d\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0638 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0646<\/strong> (the glance of the eye.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Glances play an honourable part in this phase, and achieve remarkable results.<\/em><\/p>\n

By means of a glance the lover can be dismissed, admitted,<\/em> \u064a\u064f\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0648\u0639\u064e\u062f\u064f \u0648\u064a\u064f\u0647\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u062f\u064e\u0651\u062f\u064f\u00a0<\/strong>(promised and threatened), upbraided, cheered, commanded, forbidden.<\/em><\/p>\n

A glance will lash the ignoble, and give warning of the presence of<\/em> \u0627\u0644\u0631\u064e\u0651\u0642\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0628<\/strong> (the spy.)<\/em><\/p>\n

A glance may convey laughter and sorrow, ask a question and make a response, refuse and give-in short, each, one of these various moods and intentions has its own particular kind of glance, which cannot be precisely realized except by ocular demonstration.<\/em><\/p>\n

Only a small fraction of the entire repertory is capable of being sketched out and described, and I will therefore attempt to describe here no more than the most elementary of these forms of expression.<\/em><\/p>\n