Translations:Yirmi Altıncı Lem'a/101/en

I did not yet consider myself old, but those who had experienced the Great War were old. For those were days that, as though manifesting the verse:A day that will turn the hair of children grey,(73:17) made even children old. While I was forty years old, I felt myself to be eighty. In those long, dark nights and sorrowful exile and melancholic state, I despaired of life and of my homeland. I looked at my powerlessness and aloneness, and my hope failed. Then, while in that state, succour arrived from the All-Wise Qur’an; my tongue said: