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«مَا لِلظَّالِمِينَ مِنْ حَمِيمٍ وَلَا شَفِيعٍ يُطَاعُ»
Wrongdoers will have no close friend and no intercessor whose intercession is obeyed.

The wording belongs to Qur'an 40:18. Part of a familiar Qur'anic passage may be embedded in a poem or prose composition in a new setting. Iqtibas is recognized when such scriptural phrasing becomes part of the speaker's own discourse.

The verse's original meaning and context should be understood before interpreting its function in a later composition.

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Conclusion: Literary Borrowing, Iqtibas, Tadmeen, and the Final Arts of Composition

«مَا لِلظَّالِمِينَ مِنْ حَمِيمٍ وَلَا شَفِيعٍ يُطَاعُ»
Wrongdoers will have no close friend and no intercessor whose intercession is obeyed.

The wording belongs to Qur'an 40:18. Part of a familiar Qur'anic passage may be embedded in a poem or prose composition in a new setting. Iqtibas is recognized when such scriptural phrasing becomes part of the speaker's own discourse.

The verse's original meaning and context should be understood before interpreting its function in a later composition.