بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخٌۭ لَّا يَبْغِيَانِ
Bainahumaa barzakhul laa yabghiyaan
Between them is a barrier [so] neither of them transgresses.
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Signs in creation
55:20Ayah 178
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Between them there is a barrier by His power exalted be He. They do not overstep neither of the two encroaches upon the other to become mixed with it.
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