Al-Hijr
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[15:10]
AND, INDEED, [O Prophet,] even before thy time did We send [Our apostles] unto communities of old

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* v.10 : The term shī‘ah denotes a distinct group of people having in common the same persuasion or adhering to the same principles of behaviour, and is sometimes (though not here) used in the sense of “sect.”