1 The name of a bitter, thorny shrub.
SURA LXXXIX.-THE DAYBREAK [XXXIX.]
MECCA.-30 Verses
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the DAYBREAK and ten nights.1
By that which is double and that which is single,
By the night when it pursues its course!
Is there not in this an oath becoming a man of sense?
Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with Ad,
At Irem adorned with pillars,