Has the Koran existed for all eternity?

Has the Koran existed for all eternity?

On that I shall not inquire!

Was the Koran created?

That I do not know!

That it is the Book of Books,

I believe as is my Muslim duty.

But that wine has existed for all eternity,

That I do not doubt;

Or that it was created before the angels

perhaps is also no myth.

The man who drinks, as it always has been,

looks God in the face afresh.