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La 'ilaha 'illal-lahu Muhammadur rasulu llahi

لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله

‘There in no Allah, but Allah; Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’

La'nat (لعنة)

Curse

Lailat-al-Qadr ليلةالقدر

The Night of Power, towards the end of Ramadan, when Prophet Muhammad received the first revelation of the Qur'aan.