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Which was revealed in Makkahبِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.The Qur'an and the Disbelievers turning away;They could be compelled to believe if Allah so willed At the beginning of the explanation of Surat Al-Baqarah we discussed the letters which appear at the beginning of some Surahs. Allah's saying:تِلْكَ ءايَاتُ الْكِتَـبِ الْمُبِينِ(These are the Ayat of the Book Mubin.) means, these are the verses of the Clear Qur'an, i.e.

Source: Tafsir Ibn Kathir — abridged excerpt