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Surah 108 - Everything

For sure, we have given you everything you could need.
So: pray to your Lord and give thanks.
Even your enemy has been dealt with!

Commentary

A little gem of encouragement. Rather than follow later commentators and concretize al-kauthar as a river in Paradise, I try to keep it simpler...

Each of the three verses ends with an '-r' sound. There is also a modicum of internal rhyme (give you / your enemy) and a repetition in first and third lines of a word often translated 'indeed'. The whole creates a certain sense of security.

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