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My authority, my strength, my argument, has gone from me' (the [final] hā' in kitābiyah, 'my book', hisābiyah, 'my account', and sultāniyah, 'my authority', is for [consonantal] quiescence; and it is retained [when reciting] with a pause as well as without a pause, in accordance with the authoritative [version of the] Qur'ānic text and the transmitted reports; some elide it when reciting without a pause).