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If Allah wills me not to will aright, How can I frame my will to will aright? Each single act I will must needs be wrong, Since none but He has power to will aright.

"For once, while roses are in bloom," I said, "I'll break the law, and please myself instead,   With blooming youths, and maidens' tulip cheeks The plain shall blossom like a tulip-bed."

Think not I am existent of myself, Or walk this blood-stained pathway of myself; This being is not I, it is of Him. Pray what, and where, and whence is this 'myself?'