Qur’án 2:203.

Qur’án 42:36.

Qur’án 3:153.

Qur’án 17:14.

Qur’án 59:9.

Qur’án 23:14: “Blessed therefore be God, the most excellent of Makers.”

Qur’án 17:31; 110.

Rúmí, The Mathnaví, II 2:277. The next line is:

A garden close, if that thought be a rose,

But if it be a thorn, then only fit to burn.