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Surah At-Takwir — 81:28

لِمَن شَآءَ مِنكُمْ أَن يَسْتَقِيمَ

Liman shaaa'a minkum ai yastaqeem

for whoever among you wills to walk straight.

Reflection

The same construction turns up in 74:37, where the one who wills is offered two directions, forward or back. Here a single direction is named, and it arrives as istiqāma, the verb behind the straight road asked for in every prayer, which makes straightness something a person does instead of a place they stand.

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