* Omar Khayyám ( غیاث الدین ابو الفتح عمر بن, براهیم خیام نیشابوری), Anti-religion, Agnostic, Poet, Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer

*Allah, perchance, the secret word might spell;
If Allah be, He keeps His secret well;
What He hath hidden, who shall hope to find?
Shall God His secret to a maggot tell?
…

The Koran! well, come put me to the test—

Lovely old book in hideous error drest—

Believe me, I can quote the Koran too,

The unbeliever knows his Koran best.

 

And do you think that unto such as you,

A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew,

God gave the secret, and denied it me?—

Well, well, what matters it! believe that too.

Khayyám (Nishapur, Persia, May 18, 1048 - December 4, 1131) "describing those who claim to receive God's word as maggot-minded fanatics (via Le Gallienne's translation):^[10]"

*RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM