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| سورة الروم Sūrat al-Rūm The Romans | |
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| Classification | Meccan |
| Other names | The Byzantines, The Greeks |
| Position | Juzʼ 21 |
| No. of verses | 60 |
| No. of Rukus | 6 |
- See Rûm for the Arabic term for the Byzantine Empire itself.
Surat Ar-Rum (Arabic: سورة الروم, "Sura of the Romans", referring to the Byzantine Empire)[1] is the 30th sura of the Qur'an with 60 ayat. It calls Muslims to look forward to the victory it prophesies of the Emperor Heraclius' Christians over the Persian Zoroastrians. In it, Christianity is shown preference over non-Abrahamic faiths.
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