The forms he used during his call

He said: "O Lord, I called my people night and day,

But the more I called, they only ran the farther away.

And every time I called them that You may forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, and covered themselves with their garments, and became wayward, and behaved with downright insolence.

Then I called them loudly and more openly,

And declared to them in public and in private,

And I told them: 'Ask your Lord to forgive you. He is verily forgiving.

He will send you abundant rain from the sky,

And will give you increase of wealth and sons, and give you gardens and springs of water.

What has come upon you that you do not fear the majesty of God,

Knowing that He has created you by various stages?

Do you not see how God has fashioned seven skies one above the other,

And has placed the moon therein, an illumination, and has placed the sun, a lighted lamp?

God produced you from the earth like a vegetable growth;

He will then return you back to it, and bring you out again.

God has made the earth for you a spreading,

So that you may walk upon its spacious paths.'