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This article contains a list of all occurrences of the words "zakah" (tax) and "blessing" in the Qur'an. The purpose is to analyze the claim that they both appear 32 times and that means Allah put a hidden message "taxes are blessings" into the Qur'an via the equality in word count.

Zakah

The zakah is a tax that Muslims should pay in Islam. The Arabic word زكاة (zakah) ends on the letter ة (ta marbuta), that means the "t" at the end is pronounced when reading the word in a context of an Arabic text, but it is not read when reading the word alone. So when using this Arabic word in English, it is sometimes transliterated as zakah and sometimes zakat, due to the letter ta marbuta at the end.

The word is derived from the root زكو (z-k-w) and this is the list of all the words derived from this root in the Qur'an. We will see that from this root, there are also other words derived, which have a different meaning.

Total count Verse Word in Arabic Translation Word class
1 2:43
2 2:83
3 2:110
4 2:129
5 2:151
6 2:174
7 2:177
8 2:232
9 2:277
10 3:77
11 3:164
12 4:49
13 4:49
14 4:77
15 4:162
16 5:12
17 5:55
18 7:156
19 9:5
20 9:11
21 9:18
22 9:71
23 9:103
24 18:19
25 18:74
26 18:81
27 19:13
28 19:19
29 19:31
30 19:55
31 20:76
32 21:73
33 22:41
34 22:78
35 23:4
36 24:21
37 24:21
38 24:28
39 24:30
40 24:37
41 24:56
42 27:3
43 30:39
44 31:4
45 33:33
46 35:18
47 35:18
48 41:7
49 53:32
50 58:13
51 62:2
52 73:20
53 79:18
54 80:3
55 80:7
56 87:14
57 91:9
58 92:18
59 98:5


Blessing

This is the list of all the occurrences of the word blessing (بركة‎‎, barakah) in the Qur'an. The difference here is, that all the words derived from the root برك (b-r-k) have the something to do with "blessing". There are no words with a completely different meaning derived from this root.

Total count Verse Word in Arabic Translation Word class
1 3:96
2 6:92
3 6:155
4 7:54
5 7:96
6 7:137
7 11:48
8 11:73
9 17:1
10 19:31
11 21:50
12 21:71
13 21:81
14 23:14
15 23:29
16 24:35
17 24:61
18 25:1
19 25:10
20 25:61
21 27:8
22 28:30
23 34:18
24 37:113
25 38:29
26 40:64
27 41:10
28 43:85
29 44:3
30 50:9
31 55:78
32 67:1


Conclusions

d

See also

d

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