Episode 7 Discussion [rewatch]

[Nixie]

The moment when Ruth realises that Andrew is the hacker goes like this:

A: (quoting) "Ready am I to go, the sails of my eagerness await the wind."
R: "And then I will come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean" Don't you just love Abu Nuwas?

The problem with this is that they are NOT quoting Abu Nawas, but Kahlil Gibran from the beginning of The Prophet. It puzzles me as to why this 'mistake' was made? Abu Nuwas is a great classical Arab poet and lived in the 8th & 9th centuries, mainly in what is today Iraq/Iran. He was Muslim, but the Islamic connection has already been discounted in the storyline. Gibran (1883-1931) was a Lebanese-American and a Christian, who wrote in both Arabic and English.

Is Ruth testing Andrew by deliberately mentioning the wrong poet? Does this link to Ruth's comments about the writer merely copying Arabic writing, without really knowing the language? I can't believe the scriptwriters wouldn't have done this deliberately, as The Prophet is so well known.

Any thoughts?