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who may inherit from me (read yarithnī in apocopated form as a response to the imperative statement [fa-hab lī, 'grant me'], or read yarithunī as an adjectival qualification of waliyyan, 'a successor') and inherit (also read in both ways [mentioned]),³ from the House of Jacob, my forefather, [inherit] knowledge and prophethood, and make him, my Rabb, acceptable', that is, pleasing to you.