"My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives."

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They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!

— Al-Maʿarri