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445                The Wrapped One              73:4
                                    16  If they had followed the messages.’  For those who
                                  right path, We would have disobey God and His Messenger
                                  provided them with abundant there is the fire of hell, wherein
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                                  rain— so that We may test them they will abide forever.
                                  by it—whoever turns away from  24 When they are confronted
                                  the remembrance of his Lord by what they have been promised,
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                                  shall be sternly punished.  The they will realize who is weaker
                                  mosques are for God’s worship— in helpers and fewer in numbers.
                                  so do not invoke anyone else  25  Say, ‘I do not know whether
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                                  along with God— when God’s what you are promised is
                                  servant stood up to pray to Him, imminent, or whether my Lord
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                                  they pressed close to him in has set for it a far-off day.’  He
                                  great numbers, almost stifling alone has knowledge of what is
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                                  him.  Say, ‘I call only upon my hidden. He reveals this to none,
                                  Lord and do not associate anyone  27  except the messenger whom
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                                  else with Him.’  Say, ‘It is not He has chosen. He sends down
                                  in my power to cause you either guardians who walk before them
                                  harm or good?’  22  Say, ‘Surely and behind them,  28 so that He
                                  no one can protect me against may know that the messengers
                                  God, nor can I find besides Him have delivered the messages of
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                                  any place of refuge.  My duty their Lord. He encompasses all
                                  is only to convey that which I that is with them and He keeps
                                  receive from Him and His count of all things.
                                             73.  THE   WRAPPED       ONE
                                                 (AL-MUZZAMMIL)
                                      In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
                                  1  O you who are wrapped up in half the night or a little less than
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                                  your mantle,  stand up to pray that  or a little more, but recite
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                                  for much of the night.  It may be the Quran slowly and distinctly.
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