@3The "All-Compelling! golden is that verse, Which doth His title—Al-Jabbâr—rehearse@1. Sura the nine and fiftieth: "Fear ye God, Oh, true believers! and let every soul Heed what it doth to-day, because to-morrow The same thing it shall find gone forward there To meet and make and judge it. Fear ye God, For He knows whatsoever deeds ye do. Be not as those who have forgotten Him, For they are those who have forgot themselves; They are the evil-doers: not for such, And for the heritors of Paradise, Shall it be equal; Paradise is kept For those thrice blessed who have ears to hear. Lo! had we sent "the Book" unto Our Hills, Our hills had bowed their crests in reverence, And opened to the heart their breasts of rock To take Heaven's message. Fear ye Him who knows Present, and Past, and Future; fear ye Him Who is the Only, Holy, Faithful Lord, Glorious and good, compelling to His will All things, for all things He hath made and rules. @3So rules, Al-Jabbâr; make our ills Bend, though more stubborn than the hills@1. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MAHMOUD by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT BY THE STATUE OF KING CHARLES AT CHARING CROSS by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON THE YOUNG THAT DIED IN BEAUTY by WILLIAM BARNES CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 1. TRUE AND CHASTE LOVE by WILLIAM BASSE PSALM 95 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |