The Convivial Book: Can the Koran from Eternity be?
CAN the Koran from Eternity be?
'Tis worth not a thought!
Can the Koran a creation, then, be?
Of that, I know nought!
Yet that the book of all books it must be,
I believe, as a Mussulman ought.
That from Eternity wine, though, must be,
I ever have thought;
That 'twas ordain'd, ere the Angels, to be,
As a truth may be taught.
Drinkers, however these matters may be,
Gaze on God's face, fearing nought.
1815.
Content of IX. The Convivial Book: Can the Koran from Eternity be? [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem collection: West-Eastern Divan]