Perspective

By Timothy Bowes

“Then He lifted Himself to heaven
when it was smoke,
and said to it and to the earth,
“Come willingly, or unwillingly!”
They said, “We come willingly.”

The Qur’an

From the translation by the non-Muslim, Arthur J. Arberry (1905-69), Verse 10, page 491, The World’s Classics Series: The Koran Intepreted, Oxford Univisity Press, 1964

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