@3Ar-Râfi! the "Exalter!" laud him so Who loves the humble and lifts up the low@1. Whom hath He chosen for His priests and preachers, Lords who were eminent, or men of might? Nay, but consider how He seeks His teachers, Hidden, like rubies unaware of light. Ur of the Chaldees! What chance to discover Th' elect of Heaven in Azar's leathern tent? But Allah saw His child, and friend, and lover, And Abraham was born, and sealed, and sent. The babe committed to th' Egyptian water! Knew any that the tide of Nilus laved The hope of Israel there? Yet Pharaoh's daughter Found the frail ark, and so was Moses saved. Low lies the Syrian town behind the mountain Where Mary, meek and spotless, knelt that morn, And saw the splendid Angel by the fountain, And heard his voice, "Lord Isa shall be born!" Nay, and Muhammad (blessèd may he be!), Abdallah's and Amînah's holy son, Whom black Halîmah nursed, the Bedawee, Where lived a lonelier or a humbler one? Think how @3he@1 led the camels of Khadijah, Poor, but illumined by the light of Heaven; Mightier than Noah, or Enoch, or Elijah, Our holy Prophet, to Arabia given. Man knew him not, wrapped in his cloth, and weeping Lonely on Hirâ all that wondrous night; But Allah for His own our Lord was keeping:— "Rise, thou enwrapped one!" Gabriel spake, "and write." @3Save God there is none high at all, Nor any low whom He doth call@1. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MEADOW STREAM by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN ACROSS THE PAMPAS by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT SONG AND SINGER by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON RELEASE by ADA CLARKE CARMICHIEL BUT TODAY by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN A LOVE-LETTER TO FOLLY by GEORGE S. CHAPPELL THE CANTERBURY TALES: THE PARSON'S PROLOGUE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER |