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meaning 'killing,' then souls would also have to die." In his
commentary on the Qur'an, the Islamic scholar Mawlana
Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi makes the following statement
about mutawaffeeka, which appears in Surah Al 'Imran:55
(the same word is also used in Surat al-Ma'ida:117):
The word mutawaffeeka, in the Arabic text comes from the
word tawaffaa, meaning "to take the surrender of" and
"take the soul," although here it is used in a figurative
sense. Here, it means "relieving from duty." 30
