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Servants of the Merciful Walking Gently on the Earth

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Servants of the Merciful Walking Gently on the Earth

Hizb 37 closes Al-Furqan with a description of the guilty on the Day of Judgment regretting the companions who led them astray in life, wishing they had taken a different path entirely, before closing with one of the Quran's most admired ethical portraits, the servants of the Merciful: people who walk gently upon the earth, answer ignorance with peace rather than argument, spend without extravagance or miserliness, and avoid false witness, a closing passage often set apart from the sura's earlier, sharper polemic against disbelief.

The hizb then opens Ash-Shuara, the Poets, beginning with the same declaration several suras share, that these are verses of a clear Book, before launching into an extended retelling of Moses and Pharaoh: the contest with Pharaoh's magicians, their sudden conversion despite Pharaoh's threats, and the pursuit that ends at the sea, told here in a distinctive poetic, refrain-driven style rather than as continuous narrative prose.

Each prophetic account in this sura is built to close on an identical closing refrain affirming that a sign lies in the story just told, though most people do not believe it, and that God remains exalted in might and merciful regardless.

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