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Egypt and Armenia, which had earlier
belonged to Byzantium, were invaded
by the idolater Persians. 20

In short, everyone was expecting
the Byzantine Empire to be destroyed.
But right at that moment, the first
verses of Sura Rum were revealed,
announcing that Byzantium would
triumph in a few years' time. This
victory seemed so impossible that Arab

polytheists had gone so far as to make
fun of these verses. They thought that
the victory announced in the Qur'an
would never come true.
Around seven years after the
revelation of the first verses of Sura
Rum, in December 627 AD, a decisive
battle between Byzantium and the
Persian Empire was fought at Nineveh.

And this time the Byzantine army
unexpectedly defeated the Persians. A
few months later, the Persians had to
make an agreement with Byzantium,
which obliged them to return the
territories they had taken from it. 21
At the end, "the victory of the

Romans," proclaimed by God in the
Qur'an, miraculously came true.
Another miracle revealed in these
verses is the announcement of a
geographical fact that could not have
been known by anyone at that time.
In the third verse of Sura Rum, we
are informed that the Romans had been
defeated in the lowest region of the

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