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Surah An-Najm — 53:15

عِندَهَا جَنَّةُ ٱلْمَأْوَىٰٓ

'Indahaa jannatul maawaa

near it is the garden of refuge.

Reflection

The account of the vision stops here to state a position, and it is the one piece of geography this passage supplies. Ma'wā is a word of shelter, from the verb for taking someone in, and both destinations receive the name: in surah al-Nazi'at the fire is a ma'wā and two lines later the garden is a ma'wā. What the word settles is that someone is taken in, and the surrounding words decide by whom.

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