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On the very page, in Surah Al-Bakara,

that Allah SWT commands us to fast the month of Ramadan

and within those very contexts to verses,

Allah SWT says,

if my servants ask you about me,

then tell them, I am Qarib, I am ever near to them.

This is the only time in the Qur'an

that Allah Azza Wajal uses al-Qarib

and it is one of his names.

So inni Qarib, I am the one who is the closest to them

and then Allah SWT is from the third person to the first person

and he speaks to us directly

ujibu dawata da'i iida da'an

I respond to the du'a of the one who makes du'a

when he makes du'a

three times the noun and adjective occurs

three times ujibu dawata da'i iida da'an

three times Allah Azza Wajal mentions

in the context of Ramadan

and in the context of the Siyam of Ramadan

that I am ever close to the believer

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