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So to Allah belongs [all] praise, the attribution to Him of what is beautiful [in words] for fulfilling His promise regarding the deniers; rabb of the heavens and rabb of the earth, the rabb of the Worlds, the Creator of all that has been mentioned (‘ālam, ‘world’, denotes everything other than Allah; it is in the plural [‘ālamīn] because of the different types [of beings] in them; rabbi, ‘Lord’, [in the last clause] is a substitution [for the previous ones]).