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And if they deny you - these [words] to the end [of the statement] are meant to comfort the Prophet "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" - the people of Noah denied before them (kadhdhabat, in the feminine person on the basis of the [overall] import),¹⁰ and 'ād, the people of Hūd, and Thamūd, the people of Sālih,