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and Hostility Abu Background: Historical The Opposition Lahab’s
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Interpretation and Explanation Verse-by-Verse
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of [twisted] and final punishment. completes image of a rope her “Around fiber,” the humiliation neck The verse, is and the palm-fiber lowliness. Arabs as Traditionally, viewed coarse—symbolizing rough ropes of being due of her message a verse disgraced high Islam. the woman Hereafter antagonizing to depicts the role in status This social of in
Literary Brilliance Power Rhetorical and
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Lessons Contemporary Universal and Relevance
Surah lessons Though a tied are to is figure, historical closely universal. Al-Masad its It offer us lineage, protection teaches that justice. no wealth divine status, and against What faith, to and the is truly matters truth. humility, submission directed It are at highlights calling destructive especially when others of and nature mockery, toward arrogance, also people who righteousness. the hatred,
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of Wisdom and Warning A Conclusion: Surah
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