rubáiyát

The section is therefore to a great extent a poetical reflection upon this phase of the philosophy of the ruba'iyat.

Omar uses it here referring to the generally antinomian tendency of his ruba'iyat.

This quatrain is translated from two ruba'iyat in the Ouseley MS., 13 and 80.

There are some scores of ruba'iyat that may be said to have contributed their imageries to the quatrain.