The Poets
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[26:9]
But, verily, thy Sustainer – He alone – is almighty, a dispenser of grace!

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* v.9 : The above two verses appear eight times in this sūrah. Apart from the present instance, they conclude, like a refrain, each of the subsequent seven stories of earlier prophets, which – by means of their, in places, almost identical phrasing – are meant to stress the essential identity of the ethical teachings of all the prophets, as well as to illustrate the statement, in verse 5, that a rejection of God’s messages is a recurrent phenomenon in the history of mankind despite the fact that His existence is clearly manifested in all living creation.