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who has set up alongside Allahu ta’ālā another god! (alladhī ja'ala ma'a'llāhi ilāhan ākhara is the subject, with an implicitly conditional import,⁵ the predicate of which is [the following]). Cast him then into the severe chastisement' (the explanation of this [dual form of the verb alqiyāhu, 'cast him'] is as above).