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344 His wealth shall not avail him, nor what he has earned !

He shall broil in a fire that flames, and his wife carrying faggots ! — on her neck a cord of palm fibres.

. (CXII. Place of origin doubtful.)

In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.

Say, ' He is God alone !

God the Eternal !

He begets not and is not begotten !

Nor is there like unto Him any one !'

. (CXIII. Place of origin doubtful.)

In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.

Say, ' I seek refuge in the Lord of the daybreak, from the evil of what He has created ; and from the evil of the night when it cometh on; and from the evil of the blowers upon knots; and from the  evil of the envious when he envies.'

was the nickname of 'Abd el 'Huzza, uncle of Mohammed, and a bitter opponent of Islam.