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And, mention, when We wrenched the mountain above them, We lifted it up [unearthing it] from its root, as if it were a canopy, and they thought, they were certain, that it was about to fall upon them, because of Allah’s threat to them that it would fall upon them if they refused to accept the rulings contained in the Torah - they had [initially] refused [to accept] them because of their being burdensome, but then accepted them - and We said to them: 'Take firmly, seriously and earnestly, what We have given you, and remember what is in it, by acting in accordance with it, that you might be Allahu ta’ālā-fearing'.