24 Preface إِلّا أَن يَشاءَ اللَّهُ ۚ وَاذكُر رَبَّكَ إِذا نَسيتَ وَقُل عَسىٰ أَن يَهدِيَنِ رَبّي لِأَقرَبَ مِن هٰذا رَشَدًاYusuf AliWithout adding, “So please God.”1 and call thy Lord to mind when thou forgettest, and say, “I hope that my Lord will guide me ever closer (even) than this to the right road.”2Verses 23 and 24 are parenthetical. We must never rely upon our own resources so much as to forget God. If by any chance we so forget, we must come back to Him and keep Him in remembrance, as did the Companions of the Cave.In geometry, the perfect circle is an ideal. Any given circle that we draw is not so perfect that we cannot draw one closer to the ideal. So in our life, there is always the hope of drawing closer and closer to God.