The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad — John Shaqi
The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet MohammadMuhammad, Prophet
Islamic
The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad
Muhammad, Prophet
Muhammad, Prophet, -632 -- Teachings; Religious life -- Islam
By the SPLENDOUR OF MORNING,
And the still of night!
Thy Lord hath not forsaken thee nor hated thee;
And the future will surely be better for thee than the present,
And thy Lord will surely give to thee and thou wilt be well pleased.
Did He not find thee an orphan and sheltered thee,
And found thee erring and guided thee,
And found thee poor and enriched thee?
Then as for the orphan, oppress him not,
And as for him who asketh of thee, chide him not away,
And as for the bounty of thy Lord, tell of it.
(xciii.)
THE MOST HIGH.
_In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful._
Magnify the name of thy LORD, THE MOST HIGH,
Who created, and fashioned,
And decreed, and guided,
Who bringeth forth the pasturage,
Then turneth it dry and brown.
We will make thee cry aloud, and thou shalt not forget,
Except what God pleaseth; verily He knoweth the plain and the
hidden.
And we will speed thee to ease.
Admonish, therefore,--verily admonishing profiteth,--
Whoso feareth God will mind;
And there will turn away from it only the wretch
Who shall broil upon the mighty fire;
And then shall neither die therein, nor live.
Happy is he who purifieth himself,
And remembereth the name of his Lord, and prayeth.
But ye prefer the life of this world,
Though the life to come is better and more enduring.
Truly this is in the books of eld,
The books of Abraham and Moses.
(lxxxvii.)
THE WRAPPING.
_In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful._
When the sun shall be WRAPPED UP,
And when the stars shall fall down,
And when the mountains shall be removed,
And when the ten-month camels shall be neglected,
And when the wild beasts shall be huddled together,
And when the seas shall boil over,
And when souls shall be joined to their bodies,
And when the child that was buried alive shall be asked
For what crime she was slain;
And when the Books shall be laid open,
And when the sky shall be peeled off,
And when Hell shall be set a-blaze,
And when Paradise shall be brought near,--
The soul shall know what it hath wrought.
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