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And [We said to him], 'Take in your hand a bunch of twigs, or some blades of grass, and smite therewith, your wife - for he had sworn to smite her a hundred times on one occasion when she was late in coming to him - and do not break [your] oath', by not smiting her: so he took a hundred rushes and smote her with them once [and that sufficed to fulfil his oath]. Truly We found him to be steadfast. What an excellent servant!, [was] Job. Indeed he was a penitent [soul], always returning to Allahu ta’ālā, exalted be He.