We placed other prominent towns between them, the towns that We had blessed and had set well-measured stages between them.1 Move back and forth between them, night and day, in perfect security.
Footnotes
[1]Qira’at: Hamza, Al-Kesa’i and Khalaf read it as: “. . . who could barely make others comprehend any word.”
[2]
“Towns which We had blessed”: The lands of Syria and Palestine, which have been generally mentioned in the Quran by this title. For instance, in (Surah Al-Aaraf, Atyat 137), (Surah Bani-Israil, Ayat 1), (Surah Al-Anbiya, Ayats 71, 81).