We have no breath, no speech to pray for aid in want.”
The Qur’ān ponder this my verse to understand.[110]
There God hath said: “Thou threwst not, when thou threwst” the sand.[111]
Although we shoot an arrow swiftly to its mark,
The bow, the arrow, we ourselves, are from God’s ark.
There’s no compulsion here, though God can all compel.
’Tis not complaint, if I of God’s compulsion tell.
All our complaints of our felt needs are indices.305
If shame we feel, of our freewill a sign it is.
Without choice were we, there ’d be no pretext for shame.