“What offerings have you brought to meet your Maker? Say!
‘Alone, and empty-handed? Is it thus you come?
E’en as We first created you? Gifts left at home?’[341]
What have you brought as timely offerings in your hands?
What are the gifts with which you’d grace your new life’s lands?25
Or, was it that you’d no belief in this return?
Our promise of this day by you was laughed to scorn?
If you denied thus the hope to be My guest,
Then dust and ashes wait you in My realm, at best.
If you did not deny it, whence your empty hands?