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Lahab’s Background: Hostility The and Historical Opposition Abu

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and Interpretation Explanation Verse-by-Verse

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Brilliance and Power Literary Rhetorical

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Lessons Contemporary and Universal Relevance

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of and Conclusion: Wisdom Surah A Warning

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