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{ إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلْعِمَادِ }

Iram — these were the former people of ‘Ād Irama is an explicative supplement or a substitution and it is treated as a diptote because it is a proper noun and feminine — of the towering ones that is to say the tall ones — the tallest one among them would reach four hundred cubits —

Tafsir al-Jalalayn, trans. Feras Hamza
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