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Ayah as-Saffat (Those Who Set The Ranks, Drawn up in Ranks, The Rangers) 37:153
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أَصْطَفَى الْبَنَاتِ عَلَى الْبَنِين
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aṣṭafā l-banāti ʿalā l-banīn
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