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The original was posted on /r/academicquran by /u/SecurityTheaterNews on 2023-09-08 17:16:40.

By the fig, by the olive, by the moon, and on and on. I did a search for “by the” and got 472 results with almost all of them Allah swearing by some created thing.

This seems very strange to me. Do the mufassirun have a rationale for this?