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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 12. THE CREATOR, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the glorious book we have sent! Do they wonder a warner has come Last Line: Finish thy work and make us thine! Subject(s): God; Islam | |||
Praise the "Creator!" He who made us live, Life everlasting unto us can give. By the glorious Book We have sent! do they wonder a warner is come Out from among themselves? Do the misbelievers say "This is a marvelous thing! What! when we are dead and dust, To live! to arise! See now, this hope is a hope far away!" But what the grave shall consume, and what of the man it shall leave, We know, for a roll is with Us where each soul's order is set. Will they call the truth a lie when it cometh to them, and dwell Wrangling and foolish and fearful, confounding the matter? But yet The heaven is above them to see how fair We have builded its arch, Painted it golden and blue, finished it perfect and clear; And the earth how We spread it forth, and planted the mountains thereon; And made all the manifold trees and the beautiful blossoms appear. Memorials are these to the wise, and a message to him who repents; Moreover We drop from the clouds the blessing of water, the rain, Whereby the cool gardens do grow, and the palms soaring up to the sky With their date-laden branches and boughs, one over the other; and grain To nourish the children of men. Lo! thus We have quickened dead clay On the bosom of earth, and beneath her: so, too, shall a quickening be. What! deem they it wearied God to create?that His power was spent? They are fools, and they darken their eyes to that which He willeth them see. We have fashioned man, and we know the thoughts of his innermost heart; We are closer to him than his blood, more near than the vein of his throat; At the right of ye all sits a watcher, a watcher sits at your left; And whatso each speaketh or thinketh, those two have known it and note. Al-Khâlik! Fashioner Divine! Finish Thy work and make us Thine! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 1. ALLAH by EDWIN ARNOLD PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 10. AL-JABBAR by EDWIN ARNOLD PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 11. AL-MUTAKABBIR by EDWIN ARNOLD PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 13. AL-BARI by EDWIN ARNOLD PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 14. AL-MUZAWWIR by EDWIN ARNOLD PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 15. AL-GHAFFAR by EDWIN ARNOLD PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 16. AL-KAHHAR by EDWIN ARNOLD |
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