۩ Sajdah Ayah
يَخَافُونَ رَبَّهُم مِّن فَوْقِهِمْ وَيَفْعَلُونَ مَا يُؤْمَرُونَ ۩
yakhaafoona Rabbahum min fawqihim wa yaf'aloona maa yu'maroon
They fear their Lord above them, and they do what they are commanded.
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God-consciousness
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6 ayahs in An-Nahl are strongly about God-consciousness. This is one of them.
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They that is the angels fear yakhāfūna is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the person governing the verb yastakbirūna ‘they are not arrogant’ their Lord from above them min fawqihim is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the suffixed pronoun -hum of fawqihim in other words they fear their Lord being High above them with the power to subjugate and they do what they are commanded to do.
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