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Say: 'O you of Jewry, if you claim that you are the [favoured] friends of Allahu ta’ālā, to the exclusion of other people, then long for death, if you are truthful' (in kuntum sādiqīna is semantically connected to tamannū, 'long for'; as for the two conditions, the first is dependent on the second, that is to say, if you are truthful in your claim that you are the [favoured] friends of Allahu ta’ālā, and given that [such] a friend would prefer the Hereafter [to this world] and that it [the Hereafter] begins at death, then long for it).