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Our Rabb, indeed I have made some of my seed, that is, Ishmael and his mother Hagar, to dwell in a valley where there is no sown land, namely, Mecca, by Your Sacred House, which had been there since before the Flood, our Rabb, that they may establish prayer. So make some of the hearts of men yearn, incline and long, towards them - Ibn ‘Abbās said, 'Had He said: “Make [all] the hearts of men …”, assuredly the Persians, the Byzantines and all of mankind would have yearned towards them'. And provide them with fruits, that they might be thankful: and this [petition] was granted, for [the town of] al-Tā'if was transferred to that [land].⁴