@3Allah-al-Karîm! Bountiful Lord! we bless By this good name Thy loving kindnesses@1. Oh, man! what hath beguiled, That thou shouldst stray From the plain easy way Of Allah's service, being Allah's child? When thou wert not, And when thou wast a clot, He did foresee thee, and did fashion thee From heel to nape, Giving thee this fair shape, Composing thee in wondrous symmetry— More than thy mother—in the form thou wearest; Nearer to thee than what on earth is nearest. Kinder than kin is He— Wilt thou forgetful be? @3Ya Karîm! since Thou lovest thus, Quicken, ah, quicken love in us@1. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A THOUGHT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES LIFE'S MIRROR by MARY AINGE DE VERE THE ANNIVERSARY [ANNIVERSARIE] by JOHN DONNE EPIGRAM: 101 by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS THE OLD MAN AND JIM by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY FRIENDSHIP [OR, THE TRUE FRIEND] by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE SIX TOWN ECLOGUES: SATURDAY; THE SMALL-POX by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU |