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Quote by Ibn al-Rumi
عابوا قريضي وما عابوا بمعرفةِ ولن ترى الشمسَ أبصارَ الخفافيشِ
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The speaker says that some people criticized the poem without truly understanding it. The comparison to bats suggests that a person who lacks the ability or willingness to recognize something cannot judge it fairly. Their failure to see the sun does not mean the sun is absent or flawed.
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