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And that's it. There are no more occurrences of this word in the Qur'an although it is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar. So the Qur'an is not very consistent in these word count "miracles". | And that's it. There are no more occurrences of this word in the Qur'an although it is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar. So the Qur'an is not very consistent in these word count "miracles". | ||
=="Gold" and "luxury" both mentioned 8 times== | |||
The word for "gold" is ذَّهَبِ (''dhahab''). All occurrences in the Qur'an are singular nouns: | |||
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" class= "wikitable sortable" | |||
!Total count | |||
!Verse | |||
!Word in Arabic | |||
!Translation | |||
|- | |||
|1||3:14||ٱلذَّهَبِ||the gold | |||
|- | |||
|2||3:91||ذَهَبًا||of gold | |||
|- | |||
|3||9:34||ٱلذَّهَبَ||the gold | |||
|- | |||
|4||18:31||ذَهَبٍ||a gold | |||
|- | |||
|5||22:23||ذَهَبٍ||a gold | |||
|- | |||
|6||35:33||ذَهَبٍ||a gold | |||
|- | |||
|7||43:53||ذَهَبٍ||a gold | |||
|- | |||
|8||43:71||ذَهَبٍ||a gold | |||
|} | |||
So this word does occur 8 times, if we count all forms. | |||
The word for "luxury" is تَرَف (''taraf''), derived from the root ترف (t-r-f). | |||
This is the list of all occurrences of words derived from the root ترف in the Qur'an: | |||
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" class= "wikitable sortable" | |||
!Total count | |||
!Verse | |||
!Word in Arabic | |||
!Transliteration | |||
!Translation | |||
!Word class | |||
|- | |||
|1||11:116||أُتْرِفُوا۟||''otrifoo''||they were enriched||verb | |||
|- | |||
|2||17:16||مُتْرَفِيهَا||''mutrafeeha''||her wealthy people||noun | |||
|- | |||
|3||21:13||أُتْرِفْتُمْ||''otriftum''||you were enriched||verb | |||
|- | |||
|4||23:33||وَأَتْرَفْنَٰهُمْ||''waatrafnahum''||while we enriched them||verb | |||
|- | |||
|5||23:64||مُتْرَفِيهِم||''mutrafeehim''||their wealthy people||noun | |||
|- | |||
|6||34:34||مُتْرَفُوهَآ||''mutrafooha''||her wealthy people||noun | |||
|- | |||
|7||43:23||مُتْرَفُوهَآ||''mutrafooha''||her wealthy people||noun | |||
|- | |||
|8||56:45||مُتْرَفِينَ||''mutrafeen''||wealthy people||noun | |||
|} | |||
* The word "city" (قَرْيَةٍ, ''qaryatin'') is feminine in Arabic. So "her" wealthy people refers to city. | |||
So, the word "wealth" itself appears exactly '''0 times'''. | |||
In conclusion: | |||
* The word "gold" appears 8 times, the word "wealth" appears 0 times. | |||
* Apologists got number 8 for "wealth" by counting verbs and nouns together. 5 of the 8 occurrences is the word for "wealthy people". | |||
==="Silver" mentioned 6 times non-miracle=== | |||
If the Qur'an is full of word count miracles, then we would expect the word "silver" (فضة, ''fidda'') to be also mentioned 8 times: | |||
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" class= "wikitable sortable" | |||
!Total count | |||
!Verse | |||
!Word in Arabic | |||
!Translation | |||
|- | |||
|1||3:14||وَٱلْفِضَّةِ||and the silver | |||
|- | |||
|2||9:34||وَٱلْفِضَّةَ||and the silver | |||
|- | |||
|3||43:33||فِضَّةٍ||[of] silver | |||
|- | |||
|4||76:15||فِضَّةٍ||[of] silver | |||
|- | |||
|5||76:16||فِضَّةٍ||[of] silver | |||
|- | |||
|6||76:21||فِضَّةٍ||[of] silver | |||
|} | |||
But it is not, although gold and silver are mentioned together in verses 3:14 and 9:34 as a property of wealthy people. So the Qur'an is not very consistent with its word count "miracles". | |||
=="Fear" and "wish" both mentioned 8 times== | =="Fear" and "wish" both mentioned 8 times== | ||