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Jan 2021
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53. Surah al-Najem | سورة النجم

Hashem Nabil, هاشم نبيل
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Revealed in Mecca, the chapter has 62 verses.  The title is taken from the invocation in the first verse, ‘By the star as it sets.’ This is the first chapter that the Prophet publicly recited in which both the believers and disbelievers prostrated at the end. 
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