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Now, gather together in your mind's eye all the Lights, Rays, Flashes, Beams, and Gleams from the start of this treatise up to here and consider them all together! As a decisive conclusion, they recite and proclaim in resounding tones the claim made at the beginning, that is,

Say: If all mankind and the Jinn were to gather together to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other with help and support,192

Glory be unto You! We have no knowledge save that which You have taught us; indeed, You are All-Knowing, All-Wise.193

O our Sustainer! Do not call us to task if we forget or do wrong.194 * O my Sustainer! Expand for me my breast, * And make easy for me my task, * And remove the impediment from my speech, * So that they may understand what I say.195

O God! Grant blessings to our master Muhammad that will be pleasing to You and will be fulfdment to his truth, and to his Family, his Companions, and his brothers, and grant them peace.

O our Sustainer! Let not our hearts deviate after you have guided us, and grant us mercy from Your Presence, for You are the Granter of bounties without measure ,196 * And the close of their prayer will be, All praise be to God, the Sustainer of All the Worlds.197 Amen. Amen. Amen.

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192. Qur'an. 17:88.

193. Qur'an, 2:32.

194. Qur'an, 2:286.

195. Qur'an, 20:25-28.

196. Qur'an, 3:8.

197. Qur'an, 10:10.



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