THE SPEECHES AT MEKKA
I. THE POETIC PERIOD
Aet. 40-44
a.d. 609-613
THE NIGHT.
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
By the Night when she spreadeth her veil,
By the Day when it is manifested,
By what made the male and the female:
Verily your aims are diverse.
Then as for him who giveth alms and feareth God,