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Say: 'O People of the Scripture!, Jews and Christians, come now to a word agreed upon (sawā', is the verbal noun, meaning mustawin amruhā, '[a word] regarding which the matter is upright') between us and you, and it is, that we worship none but Allahu ta’ālā (allā is [made up of] an-lā, 'that…not') and that we do not associate anything with Him, and do not take each other for lords, beside Allahu ta’ālā', as you have taken rabbis and monks; and if they turn their backs, in rejection of Allah’s Oneness, say, you to them: 'Bear witness that we have submitted', [that we are of] those who affirm the Oneness of Allahu ta’ālā.