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 "Why do good since thou art to be forgiven for thy sins?" he asks.

"Kaaba Stone," the sacred black stone in the Kaaba at Meccah.

The American poet, Lowell, in "The Crisis," utters the same cry:

"To let go a flea is a more virtuous act than to give a dirham to a beggar."—Abu'l-Ala.

Omar too, in the 157th quatrain of Heron-Allen's—

"Thy two soul-devouring angels," the angels of death and resurrection.