Plaque on the western wall of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad_Mosque" class="extiw" title="w:Umayyad Mosque">Umayyad Mosque</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus" class="extiw" title="w:Damascus">Damascus</a>. The text is from the 36th and 37th verses of the <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Holy_Qur%27an_(Maulana_Muhammad_Ali)/24._The_Light" class="extiw" title="wikisource:The Holy Qur'an (Maulana Muhammad Ali)/24. The Light">surah of the Light</a> (النور):<blockquote class="templatequote language">
<p>36. (It is) in houses which Allah has permitted to be exalted and His name to be remembered therein. Therein do glorify Him, in the mornings and the evenings,<br>
37. Men whom neither merchandise nor selling diverts -- from the remembrance of Allah and the keeping up -- of prayer and the paying of the poor-rate. [...]
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Follows a mention of the restoration of the mosque by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez_al-Assad" class="extiw" title="w:Hafez al-Assad">Hafez al-Assad</a> in 1414 AH, that is 1993.
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1993
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