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Or do you have oaths, pledges, binding, secured, on Us until the Day of Resurrection (ilā yawmi'l-qiyāmati is semantically connected to 'alaynā, 'on Us'; these words ['alaynā bālighatun, 'binding on Us'] contain the sense of an oath [given], in other words, 'Did We swear to you?', the response to which is [what follows]) that you will indeed have whatever you decide?, to have for yourselves.