The water’s stimulus compelled them to give back.
When Luqmān’s turn was come to cast up his accounts,
Clear water was the only issue from his founts.
Luqmān’s philosophy this trial could evolve;
God’s wisdom far abstruser riddles will resolve.100
“The day when our hearts’ secrets shall be all revealed,”
Man’s secret foe in ambush shall not lie concealed.
Hell’s victims, then, shall taste of scalding water’s pang;
And all veils be torn off from sins they overhang.
Hell-fire’s decreed to be the lot of misbelief;