“To let go a flea is a more virtuous act than to give a dirham to a beggar.”—Abu’l-Ala.
[XCIII] and [XCIV]
Omar too, in the 157th quatrain of Heron-Allen’s—
“Had I charge of the matter I would not have come,
And likewise could I control my going, where could I go?”
[XCV]
“Thy two soul-devouring angels,” the angels of death and resurrection.