The “opportunists” were the first to put them in his hell in his immortal work, “The Divine Comedy,” and the worst thing about the opportunists is that they combine lies, exploitation, and hypocrisy, and because they are the trio of error and sin, the owner of the comedy sent them to hell.
Hanna Abboud transferred the “Divine Comedy” into Arabic through an intermediary language, which is English, and Dante had written this live work, literary, cultural and philosophical to today in about the year 1300, and he was a young man of about thirty-five years of age, and yet the king of that young man who was He holds many religious and political stances.. He possesses wisdom, thought and philosophy, and above all, daring.
In any case, the comedy was transferred to Arabic with many translations, as everyone knows, but the advantage of Hanna Abboud’s translation includes a broad narrative; Rather, it is a sprawling array of explanations, information, stories, and situations that together make us read the comedy this time with a comprehensive cultural vision, so that we know, for example, why the first to put Dante in his hell were the opportunists, and we will also know why philosophers were put in hell like them, such as the gluttonous, the hypocritical, and the people with heavy sins.
As for the story of the opportunists, Hanna Abboud sums it up as follows: The two poets pass by “and by the two poets he means: Dante and Virgil, for Virgil is the one who guides Dante on his legendary journey to paradise, hell and purgatory.” Once again, the two poets pass through the gate of hell and reach the entrance, and at the entrance they witness the opportunists and their torment They are a people who losers refuse to move them, so they will not enter hell, nor will they be accepted into heaven, for they will never be lost.. Hanna Abboud goes back to explaining the nature of the opportunists once again, as they have no decision, they tend towards their interest, so they were rejected from heaven..
But what does Dante himself say about the opportunists in the text of the comedy: He says: “Heaven rejected them in order to preserve the perfection of its splendor../..and Hell rejected them so that the sinners would not be proud of them../..the horror of their sins…” Dante says: “Their lives were despicable and mean../..they lived their lives and no one mentioned them. Justice rejected them../..and mercy departed from them…”
You see how much faith in Dante’s heart, who used to say: The torment of pride is anger.
And he used to say: “I guided you thanks to reason and art, so the love of goodness in you now will be your guide.” Dante also knows loyalty, abhors denial, and preserves the beautiful, like any great and noble moralist at the same time.
See what he says about Virgil’s Aeneid.. Virgil is his teacher and guide. “The Aeneid, the mother who provided breast-feeding milk for my songs, and without her I would not have been worth a penny.”
And after.. who learns? And how? And when?
