Without a name, how shall we differentiate
Between sand, stone, earth and wood?
Sand needs no name
Stone requests for no name
Earth does not ask for a name
Wood knows not its name
These are problems for human beings
Who crave names.
What difference would it make if we change names
Wood become stone, stone becomes sand and sand becomes earth?
Nothing significant will happen
Wood will still remain wood,
Stone still stone,
Sand still sand and earth still earth,
It's human beings who are faced with a problem
Their understanding blurs
Not being able to differentiate between a name and a thing.
- Baharuddin Zainul (Baha Zain 2008)

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