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A Monkey Is a Gazelle in His Mother's Eye

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Originally published on Mafaateeh Al-Hamdani | The Veteran blog
A bonnet macaque sitting on a rock
A bonnet macaque sitting on a rock.

A monkey is a gazelle in his mother's eye.

What is this racism rooted in monkeys? Do they not know that monkeys needed millions of years (not "million of years" — it is an iḍāfa construction, so the second noun is genitive, and the genitive takes a kasra or a yā')?

I mean, suppose we take Darwin's theory seriously — of course, many of us talk about Darwin's theory without having read about him, reviewed his research, or reflected on what he said (and the author of this post is among them) — so we must verify everything we transmit, whether it is information, news, or anything else.

Well, let us continue the post: with natural selection, the monkey evolves and evolves until it becomes a man. And this means, through integration by compensation, that a man is a gazelle in his mother's eye. If we drop the "gh" from "ghazal" it becomes "zal", so it becomes "a monkey is a zal in his mother's eye" — and "zal" is pronounced in the Arab Republic of Egypt (even though when they get angry at Arabs, they say "we are Pharaohs") with the letter "dhal".

Of course, what was written above contains deliberate misdirection and deception, the aim of which is to push the reader away from benefiting from the topic and into endless arguments with no beginning or end. Therefore, one must forgive if a person wrongs you without knowing — for it is a trait of the Arabs that if one of them asks another for forgiveness, he forgives him.

Until we meet with another post, God willing, titled "The Sayyid and the Butcher".

The original article was published on the blog Mafaateeh Al-Hamdani | The Veteran by Mohammed Taher Al-Hamdani.