Al-Jalalayn

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Say ‘I seek refuge in the Lord of the Daybreak the morning

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from the evil of what He has created of obligated animate beings and non-obligated ones and from all inanimates such as poison and so on;

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and from the evil of darkness when it gathers that is from night when it becomes dark and the moon when it is absent

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and from the evil of the women-blowers sorceresses who blow on knots which they knot into strings blowing into them certain words but without spittle; however al-Zamakhsharī says ‘with this spittle’ — sorceresses such as the daughters of the said Labīd —

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and from the evil of an envier when he envies’ when he manifests his envy and behaves in accordance with it — such as the mentioned Labīd from among the Jews who were envious of the Prophet s; the mention of these three elements of evil which are already subsumed by the statement ‘of what He has created’ is because of the severity of their evil.