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 The verse is NOT a palindrome.
+==Apologetic mental gymnastics==
+===Dropping the first letter===
+The "reason" is that maybe in this verse و (''wa'') doesn't mean "and" and it is only an indicator for starting a sentence. Even if this was true, it would still not be a palindrome:
+{{Quote|a non-palindrome|
+r '''a''' b b a k a f a k a b b '''i''' r (spelled forwards)
+r '''i''' b b a k a f a k a b b '''a''' r (spelled backwards)
+}}
+This failed on the second letter.
+===Dropping diacritics===
+The "problematic" vowels '''a''' and '''i''' are indicated by diacritics. If we now, after deleting the letter و ignored the diacritics we would have only the Arabic letters:
+{{Quote||
+وربك فكبر
+ر ب ك ف ك ب ر
+}}
+But this is no longer a word. Every Arabic word has diacritics and when they are not written the reader is supposed to know them by heart.
+And this is the supposed "miraculous" palindrome. Three letters r-b-k-f-k-b-r. So it's similar to the example "rotator" except that the word rotator is a real palindrome and doesn't require mental gymnastics.
+==Real palindromes==
+There are many websites which contain long palindromic sentences. For example:
+* [https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/oddsends/palinsen.htm Palindromic sentences collected by Ralph Griswold.]
+==Conclusion==
+* Non-Muslims can make long palindromic sentences
+* Author of the Quran managed to make a three-letter (or four if we count the middle letter) palindrome
+** He actually didn't