9وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَهُوَ العَزيزُ الرَّحيمُMuhammad AsadBut, verily, thy Sustainer - He alone - is almighty, a dispenser of grace!1The above two verses appear eight times in this surah. Apart from the present instance, they conclude, like a refrain, each of the subsequent seven stories of earlier prophets, which - by means of their, in places, almost identical phrasing - are meant to stress the essential identity of the ethical teachings of all the prophets, as well as to illustrate the statement, in verse 5, that a rejection of God's messages is a recurrent phenomenon in the history of mankind despite the fact that His existence is clearly manifested in all living creation.