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Salât: support & mercy

5 verses

In these verses صلو is not “ritual prayer”; with Allah/angels as subject it means support, mercy and blessing. From lexicon and translation sources: Lane’s Lexicon gives the root’s range as “prayer, praise, mercy/benediction, to keep close / support”; Mehmet Okuyan renders these as “support”; the Quranic Arabic Corpus glosses “blessings”. (Meanings are given with their lexical and translation sources.)