around
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fire sheds light around it

for if thou hadst been stern and fierce of heart 
they would have dispersed from round about thee
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And this is a blessed Scripture which We have
revealed, confirming that which (was revealed)
before it, that thou mayst warn the Mother of
Villages and those around her
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And among those around you of the wandering Arabs
there are hypocrites, and among the townspeople
of Al-Mad'inah( there are some who) persist in
hypocrisy whom thou (O Muhammad) knowest not.
We, We know them, and We shall chastise them
twice; then they will be relegated to a painful doom.
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It is not for the townsfolk of Al-Madinah and for
those around them of the wandering Arabs to stay
behind the messenger of Allah and prefer their
lives to his life
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