Āyah
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An āyah (
تِلْكَ آيَاتُ ٱللَّٰهِ نَتْلُوهَا عَلَيْكَ بِٱلْحَقِّۖ فَبِأَيِّ حَدِيثٍۭ بَعْدَ ٱللَّٰهِ وَآيَاتِهِۦ يُؤْمِنُونَ
"These are the āyahs ofQuran 45:6[2]
Overview of the meaning
Although meaning "verse" when using the Quran, it is doubtful whether āyah means anything other than "sign", "proof", or "remarkable event" in the Quran's text. The "signs" refer to various phenomena, ranging from the universe, its creation, the alternation between day and night, rainfall, and the life and growth of plants. Other references are to miracles or to the rewards of belief and the fate of unbelievers.[3] For example:
- "And of his signs is the creation of the heavens and earth and what He has dispersed throughout them of creatures." (Q42:29)
- "And a sign for them is the dead earth. We have brought it to life and brought forth from it grain, and from it, they eat." (Q36:33)
- "... and they denied him; therefore we destroyed them. Herein is indeed a sign yet most of them are not believers." (Q26:139)
- "... you are but a mortal like us. So bring some sign if you are of the truthful." (Q26:154)
Chapters (surah) in the Quran consist of several verses, varying in number from 3 to 286. Within a long chapter, the verses may be further grouped into thematic sequences or passages.
For the purpose of interpretation, the verses are separated into two groups: those that are clear and unambiguous (
An incorrect anti-Islamic claim is that the number of verses in the Quran is 6,666.[6][7] In fact, the total number of verses in the Quran is 6,236 excluding Bismillah and 6348 including Bismillah. (There are 114 chapters in the Quran, however there are only 112 unnumbered Bismillah's because Surah At-Tawbah does not have one at the beginning and fatiha's is numbered,
there is another Bismillah in the middle of āyah 30 of Surah An-Naml but does not include because it is already add as a ayat.
The Unicode symbols for a Quran verse, including U+06DD (),[Note 2] and U+08E2 ().
The first āyah in the Quran from a chronological order is Read [O Muhammad!] in the name of your Lord who created (
See also
References
Notes
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- ^ A (scanned) example of the Unicode ayah character is on page 3 of this Proposal for additional Unicode characters.
Citations
- ^ Mohammed, Khaleel. "Muhammad Al-Ghazali's View on Abrogation in the Qur'an". forpeoplewhothink.org. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- ^ Quran 45:6
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