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Sura 2
Aya 104
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يا أَيُّهَا الَّذينَ آمَنوا لا تَقولوا راعِنا وَقولُوا انظُرنا وَاسمَعوا ۗ وَلِلكافِرينَ عَذابٌ أَليمٌ

N. J. Dawood

Believers, do not say Rā‘inā; but say Unẓurnā.1 Take heed; woeful punishment awaits the unbelievers.
  • These words mean ‘Listen to us’ and ‘Look upon us’ respectively; but in Judaeo-Arabic the sound of the first conveys the sense, ‘Our evil one’. Arabian Jews used the expression as a derisive pun.