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Surah The Ascending stairways [Al-Maarij] Ayah 44 Location Maccah Number 70
تَدۡعُواْ مَنۡ أَدۡبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ [١٧]
17. Calling[2] (all) such as turn their backs and turn away their faces (from Faith) [picking and swallowing them up from that great gathering of mankind on the Day of Resurrection just as a bird picks up a food-grain from the earth with its beak and swallows it up] (Tafsir Al-Qurtubî)