Al-Jalalayn

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By the heaven of the constellations the twelve constellations of the planets — as explained in sūrat al-Furqān Q. 2561;

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and by the promised day the Day of Resurrection;

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and by the witness Friday and the witnessed the day of ‘Arafa — that is how these three elements have been explained in hadīth for the first one is ‘promised’ the second one is ‘a witness’ that testifies to deeds performed in it while the third is ‘witnessed’ by mankind and angels the introductory particle of the response to the oath has been omitted but is implied to be laqad ‘verily’ sc. laqad qutila ashābu’l-ukhdūd

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perish accursed be the men of the ditch! the pit in the ground

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of the fire al-nāri is an inclusive substitution of it al-ukhdūdi ‘of the ditch’ abounding in fuel by which it was fuelled