الشُّعَرَاء

"Who will cause me to die, and then to life (again);

"And who, I hope, will forgive me my faults on the day of Judgment.

"O my Lord! bestow wisdom on me, and join me with the righteous;

"Grant me honourable mention on the tongue of truth among the latest (generations);

"Make me one of the inheritors of the Garden of Bliss;

"Forgive my father, for that he is among those astray;

"And let me not be in disgrace on the Day when (men) will be raised up;-

"The Day whereon neither wealth nor sons will avail,

"But only he (will prosper) that brings to Allah a sound heart;

"To the righteous, the Garden will be brought near,

"And to those straying in Evil, the Fire will be placed in full view;

"And it shall be said to them: ´Where are the (gods) ye worshipped-

"´Besides Allah? Can they help you or help themselves?´

"Then they will be thrown headlong into the (Fire),- they and those straying in Evil,

"And the whole hosts of Iblis together.

"They will say there in their mutual bickerings:

"´By Allah, we were truly in an error manifest,

"´When we held you as equals with the Lord of the Worlds;

"´And our seducers were only those who were steeped in guilt.

"´Now, then, we have none to intercede (for us),