Mutashabihat Pairs
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An-Najm · Al-Qalam
Part of a three-way set (see 16:125/68:7 batch 5 and 16:125/53:30 this batch): 'your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His way and He knows best the rightly guided'; 53:30 closes a passage on those who avoid major sins, 68:7 follows a command not to obey disbelievers.
Yusuf · An-Najm
Both dismiss false deities as 'nothing but names you and your forefathers invented; Allah sent down no authority for them'; 12:40 is Yusuf's argument to his fellow prisoners, 53:23 addresses the pagan goddesses al-Lat, al-Uzza, and Manat.
An-Nahl · An-Najm
Completes the three-way set (see 16:125/68:7 batch 5 and 53:30/68:7 this batch): 'your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His way and He knows best the rightly guided'; 16:125 is in the call-to-wisdom context, 53:30 closes a description of those who turn away.