A MOHAMMEDAN’S PRAYER.
Thou art Allah, God divine,
And we bow before Thy shrine.
Humbly bend to Thee in prayer.
Thou my God art everywhere.
Thou hast willed th’ stars into space,
Everywhere we see Thy face.
In sidereal spaces grand
Worlds were fashioned by Thy hand.
Thou art Maker, Ruler, King;
Of Thy praises we will sing.
Allah great, O Allah good!
By Thy side we once have stood.
We are part of Thee, O Lord,
Though we sprang from ’neath the sod.
By Thy side we still would stand,
Guided by Thy loving hand.
There couldst never heaven be
But for immortality.
Thou dost need our helping hand
Even in Thy heavenly land.
Man was fashioned from the dust,
But his soul doth in Thee trust;
And will rise to Thee at last,
Not forgetting though, its past.
Man, from ages hath come down,
And in future Thou wilt crown
Him immortal, part of Thee;
Absorbed in Love, in Deity.