e themselves to
suffer loss.

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Y: So We listened to him: and delivered him from distress: and thus do
We deliver those who have faith.

P: Then we heard his prayer and saved him from the anguish. Thus we save
believers.

S: So We responded to him and delivered him from the grief and thus do
We deliver the believers.

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Y: And (remember) Zakariya, when he cried to his Lord: "O my Lord! leave
me not without offspring, though thou art the best of inheritors."

P: And Zachariah, when he cried unto his Lord: My Lord! Leave me not
childless, though Thou art the Best of inheritors.

S: And Zakariya, when he cried to his Lord: O my Lord leave me not
alone; and Thou art the best of inheritors.

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Y: So We listened to him: and We granted him Yahya: We cured his wife's
(Barrenness) for him. These (three) were ever quick in emulation in
good works; they used to call on Us with love and reverence, and humble
themselves before Us.

P: Then We heard his prayer, and bestowed upon him John, and adjusted
his wife (to bear a child) for him. Lo! they used to vie one with the
other in good deeds, and they cried unto Us in longing and in fear, and
were submissive unto Us.

S: So We responded to him and gave him Yahya and made his wife fit for
him; surely they used to hasten, one with another, in deeds of goodness
and to call upon Us, hoping and fearing; and they were humble before Us.

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Y: And (remember) her who guarded her chastity: We breathed into her of
Our spirit, and We made her and her son a sign for all peoples.

P: And she who was chaste, therefor We breathed into her (something) of
Our Spirit and made her and her son a token for (all) peoples.

S: And she who guarded her chastity, so We breathed into her of Our
inspiration and made her and her son a sign for the nations.

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Y: Verily, this brotherhood of yours is a single brotherhood, and I am
your Lord and Cherisher: therefore serve Me (and no other).

P: Lo! this, your religion, is one religion, and I am your Lord, so
worship Me.

S: Surely this Islam is your religion, one religion (only), and I am
your Lord, therefore serve Me.

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Y: But (later generations) cut off their affair (of unity), one from
another: (yet) will they all return to Us.

P: And they have broken their religion (into fragments) among them,
(yet) all are returning unto Us.

S: And they broke their religion (into sects) between them: to Us shall