To understand how European and Eastern civilizations differ, it is enough to listen to what is said in the Arab world about the eternal theme - about love. Biologically, Europeans and Semitic peoples are one species - a rational person, but mentally, psychologically, the differences are such that they cannot be overcome, but can only be combined, if, of course, there is a desire. Eastern peoples are exceptionally sensual and live, so to speak, with love here and now. They do not understand European daydreaming, just as we do not understand their sophisticated pragmatism in this area of human relations. Eastern wisdom says: to be happy in life, you need to eat meat, ride meat and lovingly stick meat into meat. In Europe, such a pragmatic image could not have arisen in principle.
"Song of Songs" and Eastern wisdom with her
This book of the Old Testament was created by Solomon, the wisest man of the wisest. And judging by his texts, the way it is. "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 heroes is amazing. They describe each other from head to toe, savoring every bend in the body of a loved one. Looking into the eyes in this concentrated wisdom is completely absent. She reports on what bliss it is “to fall asleep on the beloved’s shoulder, hiding with his left hand, wearying his body with love.” These are real quotes. Eastern wisdom presented them to the church, which interprets winged 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 who are described with the highest art, because no art is noticeable behind the simplicity of presentation. And Solomon does not touch upon any moral criteria in his ingenious poem, because his sensual nature knows how to love not in the future, but now, on this bed. Solomon and his half-hearted people do not know other feelings in love.
Woman is a storehouse of pleasure
Arab warriors for their faith in Paradise expect the heavenly beauty of the guria. And oriental wisdom about a woman speaks only from this side. Therefore, it is not surprising that women who have matured and left their dawn 15–28 years old are no longer interested in Arab poets. Even Omar Khayyam devotes his enthusiasm to the "buds" of roses, on which "the dew of tears tremble." And it is not for nothing that God in the Old Testament constantly blesses the eastern woman with fertility. If it ceases to be a storehouse of pleasures, then it must find happiness in another, in the continuation of the kind of its master. The poet expresses his Arab understanding of love with incredible longing: “Even with the most beautiful of dear friends, try to part without tears and without torment. All will pass. Beauty is fleeting: slip away from your hands. How can it be that love overcomes time? Neither the Semitic poets nor the Semites themselves understand this. Their pragmatic worldview makes them appreciate youth a hundred times stronger than the Europeans who can see themselves in their dreams as 40-year-olds. The Arab sees himself only 20 years old, when “love burns hot” and “deprives a person of the“ night and day ”. “Love is sinless, pure, because you are young, ” the Arab poet expresses the general idea of his people.
“Like buds, love; like buds, fire ”
While blood is burning and seething, until then it makes sense to live, - Eastern wisdom about love considers. And he agrees: who, before twenty, has not fallen in love, is unlikely to ever love someone. Therefore, it is not without reason that associations with the biblical “time to scatter and time to collect” arise. Oriental 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 - without betrayal!
What is strange from the European point of view is that in their folklore, in poetic culture and in everyday wisdom there are no motives for betrayal of love, as if this component in the relationship between a man and a woman are not in nature. But there is nothing strange, if you see love as an all-consuming young and fresh flame, like a rosebud, which only lives on 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 they manage to distinguish between old age and youth is very difficult for Europeans to understand.
