• When nothing was, then God was there, Had nothing been God would have been; My being has defeated me, Had I not been, what would have been.

    Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib: When nothing was, then God was there, 
 Had nothing been God would have been; 
 My being has defeated me, 
 Had I not been, what would have been.
    Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Ralph Russell (2000). “The Famous Ghalib”