And has become a parcel of some living elf.
Alas for him, who, living, sits among the dead.
He’s dead himself, his life from out of him has fled.
If thou take refuge in the Qur’ān, God’s own book,
With spirit of Muhammed thou’lt soon exchange look.
The Qur’ān is the essence of all prophets right.
They were the whales who swam in ocean of God’s might.170
If thou canst read or not, the Qur’ān take to heart,
The saints and prophets study; they were as thou art.
Read thou it carefully; read, mark, digest its tales;