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This is a sub-article to Qur'an and Islamic view of miracles.

People are known to have attributed several miracles to the Qur'an[1], some claiming the Qu'ran itself to be a miracle.

Contents

[edit] Claims

[edit] Historical

Some claim historical miracles [2]

[edit] Pharao versus King

Some claim the Qur'an differentiates between the word "Pharao" and "King" in a historically accurate way[3].

[edit] Predictions

Some claim miraculous predictions [4].

[edit] Mathematical

Some claim mathematical miracles [6]

[edit] Statistical miracles

Claims of statistical miracles:

It includes the following warning:

Since the Qur'aan is in Arabic language, it is necessary to know that this study cannot be fully understood except in Arabic, and due to the lack of vocabulary in English, many single words in Arabic appear as sentences! [7]

Equilibrium:

Al-Salihat (Righteous deeds) * 167 Al-Sayi'at (Evil deeds) * 167 [7]
Al-Hayat (Life) 145 Al-Maout (Death) 145 [8][7]
Hardship 114 Patience 114[8]
Al-Shiddah (Hardship) 102 Al-Sabr (Patience) 102 [7]
Al-Dunya (This world) 115 Al-Akhira (The hereafter) 115 [8][7]
Al-Mala'ikah (Angles) 88 Al-Shayateen (Satan) 88 [8] [7]
Al-Mahabbah (Love) * 83 Al-Ta'ah (Obedience) * 83 [7]
Al-Huda (Right Guidance) * 79 Al-Rahma (Mercy) * 79 [7]
Al-Musibah (Disaster/calamity) 75 Al-Shukr (Thank) 75 [7][8]
Spending (Sadaqah) 73 Satisfaction 73 [8]
Magic 60 Fitnah (dissuasion, misleading) 60 [8]
Benefi't 50 Corrupt 50 [8]
People 50 Messengers 50 [8]
Al-Salaam (Peace) 50 Al-Tayibaat (Delicacies) 50 [7]
Mind 49 Noor 49 [8]
Muslimeen 41 Jihad 41 [8]
Zakat (Taxes Muslims pay to the poor) 32 Barakah (Increasing or blessings of wealth) 32 [8]
Tongue 25 Sermon 25 [8]
Al-Rajul (Man) 24 Al-Mar'ha (Women) 24 [8][7]
Speaking publicly 18 Publicising 18 [8]
People who are mislead 17 Dead people 17 [8]
Al-Jahr (Saying Aloud) * 16 Al-'Alaniyah (in public) * 16 [7]
Iblees (Satan/Lucifer/king of devils) 11 Al-Isti'azah Billah (seek God's refugee/Seek refuge from Eblees) 11 [7][8]
Muhammed 4 Sharee'ah (Muhammed's teachings) 4 [8]

Theological relation:

Al-Jazaa' (Reward) 117 Al-Maghfirah (Forgiveness) 234 (117*2) [7]
Al-Raheem (the All-Merciful), 114 times Al-Rahman (The Almighty), 57 =114/2 times [9]
Al-Abraar (The Righteous) * 6 Al-Fujjaar (The Wicked) 3 [7]
Al-Yisr (Facility, Relief) * 36 Al-'Usr (Difficulty) * 12 [7]

Factual relation:

Al-Shahr (Month) 12 Al-Yahom (Day) 365 [7][8]
Al-bahar (Sea) 32 Al-bar (Land) 13 [7] [8]

If we add up the total words of both "sea" and "land" we get 45. A calculation:

  • 32/45 X 100% = 71% = percentages of Water (Sea) in the world [10]
  • 13/45 X 100% = 29% = percentages of Land in the world

[edit] Criticism

Apart the possibility of finding these statistics in every book of more than 200 pages -as has proven by some scientists to contradict the supposed miracles of the bible- the methodology of these statistics are suspicious:

  • The word al yawm (day) appears 372 times in its singular form to express a single day, 3 times to express multiple days of ten and more, and 3 times in its plural form of two. (the plural form from three to ten is excluded) [7], those who made these statistics may have excluded the word "day" when it is followed by a possessive adjective, 'your day' "yawmakum" is thus excluded. Also, the word "month" (shahr) is found 9 times in its singular form to express a singule month and three times (3) to express the plural of more than 10, the plural form from three to ten is excluded. In this example of Day/Month, the methodology seems to be different.
  • Aside from the suspicious methodology, Some words are chosen because they match what is attempted to reach, for example the duality between Sea/Land could be translated into Bah'r/Ard' instead of Bah'r/Birr. And many of the dualities are too vague, Muhammed/sharia or Right Guidance/Mercy, and don't really correspond to a duality.

[edit] Number 19

Several of the claimed miracles are centered around the number 19 [11].

[edit] Criticism

Some have criticism of the number 19 claim [12]

[edit] Perfection

Some claim miracles in its literacy [13]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/
  2. ^ http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/historical_index.html
  3. ^ http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/historical_05.html
  4. ^ http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/predictions_index.html
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i [1]
  6. ^ http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/mathematical_index.html, http://www.submission.org/miracle/
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Study conducted by Dr. Tariq Al-Suwaidan [2]
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t http://www.islamawareness.net/Miq/stat.html
  9. ^ http://www.free-minds.org/articles/gods_system/rahman.htm
  10. ^ [3] [4] [5] [6]
  11. ^ http://www.submission.org/why-19.html
  12. ^ http://answering-islam.org.uk/Religions/Numerics/
  13. ^ http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/perfection_index.html

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