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Then it is said: "They are standing before God," meaning that they are standing in the service of God, and educating the creatures of God, such as the barbarous nomad Arab tribes of the Arabian peninsula, whom they educated in such a way that in those days they reached the highest degree of civilization, and their fame and renown became worldwide (49:2) "And if any man would hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies."2 That is to say, that no one would be able to withstand them, that if a person wished to belittle their teachings and their law, he would be surrounded and exterminated by this same law which proceedeth out of their mouth; and everyone who attempted to injure, to antagonize and to hate them would be destroyed by a command which would come out of their mouth and thus it happened: all their enemies were vanquished, put to flight and annihilated. In this most evident way God assisted them
(49:3)
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