‘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.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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