Omar Khayyám was a Persian polymath, sufi mystic, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy and music. He is well know for his Rubáiyát (quatrains).
As the most most courageous intellect of all times once preferred and quoted the translation by Richard Le Gallienne
I humbly quote the following, which I find true to nature and to us as humans without neither man’s hypocrisy nor mockery of mother nature.
How sad to be a woman–not to know
Aught of the glory of this breast of snow,
All unconcerned to comb this mighty hair;
To be a woman and yet never know!
Were I a woman, I would all day long
Sing my own beauty in some holy song,
Bend low before it, hushed and half afraid,
And say “I am a woman” all day long.
mowafag 