@3Inheritor! all things proceed from Thee, And re-committed to Thy hands shall be@1. The chapter of Al-Hajar: There is nought But from the treasury of God was brought; Such and so much He lends-them; winds and waters; Have @3ye@1 the store of these things, or of aught? Did @3ye@1 set in the sky the starry band, Or pile the mountain peaks upon the land? Verily He hath made and will unmake them, And all these shall return into His hand. "Oh, Rose!" the Dewdrop said, "whence didst thou spring, That art so sweet and proud and fair a thing?" "From dust I sprang," she said, "and ere to-morrow Back to the dust I shall be moldering." "Oh, Dewdrop!" said the Rose, "where didst thou gain This light, that like a gem on me hath lain?" "A cloud," he said, "uplifted me from ocean, And I must trickle to the deep again." The Bulbul heard. "Oh, Allah's rose!" it said, "The air is fragrant with thee, being dead; Oh, Allah's Dewdrop! ere the sea did suck thee, She was the fairer; be thou comforted!" For saith the chapter of Al-Hajar: "Tell My servants I have made the heavens well, And the earth well, and with a steadfast purpose; And Paradise is Mine, and Mine is Hell." @3Inheritor! all things are Thine; Al-Warith! Oh, Thou might Divine!@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE NIGHT MAIL NORTH (EUSTON SQUARE, 1840) by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL THE WIDOW'S MITE by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON AMORETTI: 64 by EDMUND SPENSER MYRRHA by VITTORIO AMEDEO ALFIERI WINDOW TRIMMER by MARGARET LEE ASHLEY |