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Thereafter Adam received certain words from his Rabb, which He inspired him with (a variant reading [of ādamu] has accusative ādama and nominative kalimātu, meaning they [the words] came to him, and these were [those of] the verse Rabb, we have wronged ourselves [Q. 7:23], with which he supplicated, and He relented to him, that is, He accepted his repentance; truly He is the Relenting, to His servants, the Merciful, to them.