The Smoke
44. Ad-Dukhān
الدخان
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وَمَا
خَلَقْنَا
السَّمَاوَاتِ
وَالْأَرْضَ
وَمَا
بَيْنَهُمَا
لَاعِبِينَ
wa-mā khalaqnā s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa wa-mā baynahumā lāʿibīna
We did not create the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them for play.
— Ali Quli Qarai
We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, merely in (idle) sport:
