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Has it not been shown, [has it not] become clear, to those who inherit the earth, as a [place of] habitation, after, the destruction of, those who inhabited it that, (an is the softened form and constitutes the subject [of the verb], its noun having been omitted, in other words [understand it as] annahu) if We will, We could smite them, with chastisement, for their sins?, as We smote those before them? (the hamza in the four instances are meant to indicate rebuke,¹⁰ and the [particles] fa, 'so', and wa, 'and', which have been inserted in two instances [each], are meant to indicate a supplement; a variant reading [for a-wa-amina] has aw amina, 'or do [they] feel secure', in the [second] instance,¹¹ as a supplement). And, We, seal up their hearts so that they do not hear, the admonition, in a way so as to reflect.