SAY: Truly my Lord sendeth forth the Truth:-Knower of things unseen!
SAY: Truth is come, and falsehood shall vanish and return no more.
SAY: If I err, verily to my own cost only shall I err: but if I have guidance, it will be of my Lord's revealing, for He is the Hearer, the near at hand.
Couldst thou see how they shall tremble and find no escape, and be taken forth from the place that is so near;9
And shall say, "We believe in Him!" But how, in their present distance, shall they receive the faith,
When they had before denied it, and aimed their shafts at the mysteries from afar?10
And a gulf shall be between them and that which they shall desire-
As was done unto their likes of old, who were lost in the questionings of doubt.
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1 In Arabia Felix, three days' journey from Sanaa.