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Said he, 'Now, because You have sent me astray (fa-bi-mā aghwaytanī means bi-ighwā'ik, 'for Your sending me astray': the bā' is for oaths, and the response of the oath is [the following]) verily I shall sit in ambush for them, that is, for the Children of Adam, on Your straight path, that is, on the path that leads to You.