Arts and Arts letter to Mustafa Sadiq Al-Rafii and Muhammad Iqbal

The first purpose of literature and the arts is to create for the soul the meanings appropriate to that constant tendency in it to the unknown and to the metaphor of the truth and to throw secrets in open matters in which he imagines and responds a little from life sufficiently to multiply its meanings and leave the past from it fixed by what immortalizes its description and makes the painful Including a delightful delight, which proves in it a passion and complacency, a sweet pleasure, in which it reveals the beauty and wisdom in it, and all of that is related to the delivery of the soul, the pleasure of the unknown, which is in itself an unknown pleasure, as this soul is a capricious countenance that does not seek pure anonymity or a pure knowledge, as if it were aware of its nature. Is not explicit in the universe is absolute and absolutely invisible, but, seeking an appropriate case arises between these two lives or where the concern of which concern