The Ant
27. An-Naml
النمل
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وَتَفَقَّدَ
الطَّيْرَ
فَقَالَ
مَا
لِيَ
لَا
أَرَى
الْهُدْهُدَ
أَمْ
كَانَ
مِنَ
الْغَائِبِينَ
wa-tafaqqada ṭ-ṭayra fa-qāla mā liya lā ʾarā l-hudhuda ʾam kāna mina l-ghāʾibīna
And he took a muster of the Birds; and he said: "Why is it I see not the Hoopoe? Or is he among the absentees?
— Abdullah Yusufali
[One day] he reviewed the birds, and said, ‘Why do I not see the hoopoe? Or is he absent?’
