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Pearls of the Faith or Islam's Rosary

Being The Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of Allah (Asmca-El-Husnca): With Comments in Verse from Various Oriental Sources (As Made by an Indian Mussulman): By Edwin Arnold
  

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Al-Muzîl

O, Al-Muzîl! what if it be Thy will,
Having made man, to lead him unto ill?
Saith the Perspicuous Book:“All things which be are of God;
Neither, except by His word, falleth a leaf to the ground;
If He will open He openeth, and whom He hath blinded He blindeth,
Leading, misleading; to none liable, blameable, bound.”

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Saith the Perspicuous Book:“Tied on the neck of a man
Hangeth the scroll of his fate, not a line to be gainsaid or grudged;
When the trumpet of Israfil thunders, the Angels will show it and say,
Read there what thine own deeds have written;
thyself by thyself shall be judged.”
Wilt thou be wiser than God Who knoweth beginning and end?
Wilt thou be juster than He whose balance is turned by a sigh?

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He sayeth,“It shall not be equal for the doers of right and of wrong.”
“It shall not be equal,”He sayeth,“for them that accept and deny.”
Al-Muzîl! lead us not astray!
Teach us to find the perfect way.
 

Cf. Korân, iii. chapter “Of Imran's Family.”

Cf. Korân, xvii. chapter “Of the Night Journey.”

Cf. Korân, eodem loce.