Ape
animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
a qird · al-qird · an ape · ape · qird · the ape · القرد
spoken of as
1 expressionThe ape1 mention
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn (Arabic)
When the jinnī grows fond of an ear-ringed ape — then say to the swine of the Jazīrah:
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The ape, adduced as the animal whose abundant eating would make it happier than man if pleasure were bodily.
if real pleasure were this, the ape would be greater in pleasure than man on account of the abundance of its eating, and the ravening wolf on account of the swiftness of its seizing, and the sparrowhawk (2) on account of the frequency of its coupling.
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The ape, used to insult Bashshār b. Burd's face in two lampoons.
When the jinnī grows fond of an ear-ringed ape — then say to the swine of the Jazīrah:
At that Bashshār grieved a violent grief, because he knew, for all his love-verses, that his face was the face of an ape;
and O uglier than an ape — when the ape has gone blind
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
An ape, figure of mere imitation.
So beware, O man, of being a thicket within your own frame, holding a snake that strikes and a scorpion that stings, a leopard that tears and a camel that nurses rancour, a dog that dodges and a hare that turns coward before the truth, thorns and thistles that hurt, a lion that preys, and an ape with no portion but mimicry.