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    This poem is an allegory about assigning blame when something goes wrong. It describes a pen, ink, paper, and hand arguing about who is responsible for an unsavory scribble on the paper. Each tries to deflect blame to the other until they realize the true author is a higher power beyond the physical world. In 3 sentences, the poem uses personification to depict a pen, ink, paper, and hand debating who is at fault for an unwanted scribble, until they determine the real cause comes from a higher authority outside of the physical world.

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    POEM ON IMAM GHAZALI'S ALLEGORY

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    This poem is an allegory about assigning blame when something goes wrong. It describes a pen, ink, paper, and hand arguing about who is responsible for an unsavory scribble on the paper. Each tries to deflect blame to the other until they realize the true author is a higher power beyond the physical world. In 3 sentences, the poem uses personification to depict a pen, ink, paper, and hand debating who is at fault for an unwanted scribble, until they determine the real cause comes from a higher authority outside of the physical world.

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    Allegory of Pen

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    This poem is an allegory about assigning blame when something goes wrong. It describes a pen, ink, paper, and hand arguing about who is responsible for an unsavory scribble on the paper. Each tries to deflect blame to the other until they realize the true author is a higher power beyond the physical world. In 3 sentences, the poem uses personification to depict a pen, ink, paper, and hand debating who is at fault for an unwanted scribble, until they determine the real cause comes from a higher authority outside of the physical world.

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    A poem based on Imam Ghazali’s allegory of the pen – by Faiz Jardine

    The Pen

    Who transformed to ghastly sight,

    with scribbled stains on paper white?

    The page denounced the shameful matter,

    ask the ink that caused the splatter!

    Nay, not me, the ink’s objection

    Blame on pen for imperfection.

    I was dormant in a wooden flask

    When soaked up for this messy task

    The pen is swift in its reply

    It’s the hand that raised me high.

    It found me naked, but a reed

    And shaped me for this dreadful deed.

    The hand denied and did not cower

    I am mere mass and have no power

    You fail to see me by my bland reality

    A grip but formed by consent of Life's vitality.

    Life itself denied the claim

    It’s Will that has to take the blame.

    It woke me from my hibernation

    And stirred in me an inclination.

    Will was quick to interject

    and named the culprit – Intellect! Knowledge clearly prompted me

    To spark the hand’s activity.

    My Knowledge is not self-imbibed,

    For Reason found it pre-inscribed

    Such was the minds contention.

    A lamp was lit by hidden hand through Higher intervention.

    To find true cause I do suggest you start your quest again

    But search beyond the worldly realm for THE AUTHOR and THE PEN

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