128 Preface أَتَبنونَ بِكُلِّ ريعٍ آيَةً تَعبَثونَYusuf Ali“Do ye build a landmark on every high place to amuse yourselves?1Any merely material civilisation prides itself on show and parade. Its votaries scatter monuments for all sorts of things in conspicuous places-monuments which commemorate deeds and events which are forgotten in a few generations! Cf. Shelley’s poem on Ozymandias: “I am Ozymandias. King of Kings! Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!...Boundless and bare the lonely and level sands stretch far away!”