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Surah An-Najm — 53:42

وَأَنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ ٱلْمُنتَهَىٰ

Wa anna ilaa rabbikal muntahaa

and that to your Lord is the final return,

Reflection

Everything from verse 38 onward is offered as a summary of what already stood in the scrolls of Ibrahim and Musa, so the claims arrive presented as old rather than new. The word here, muntaha, means a furthest limit, the point past which nothing continues, and it closes the running list of accounting by naming where all of it stops.

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