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This article contains a list of all the occurrences of the word "month" (شهر - transliterated as "shahr") in all its forms in the Qur'an. It also counts the total number of occurrences, number of occurrences in singular/plural/dual separately and the number of occurrences, where the word consists only of the three arabic letters شهر (regardless of diacritics). The purpose is to refute the apologist argument, that:
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The word appears 12 times in the Qur'an, just like there are 12 months in a year, which "cannot be a coincidence" (although it could be a coincidence even if it was true), and therefore the Qur'an must be from god.
 
A common argument for the miraculous nature of the Quran states that the singular form of the Arabic word for "month" (شهر, ''shahr'') appears exactly 12 times in the book, mirroring the number of months in a year.<ref>Like here [http://masjidtucson.org/quran/miracle/word_month_occurs_Quran_12_times.html]</ref> This argument depends on three instances of the word where the meaning is plural but the singular form of the word is written, due to the way Arabic handles plural nouns greater than ten. When plural and dual forms of the word are included in the count, the number of occurrences rises to 21. This article lists all occurrences of the word in the Qur'an in its singular, dual, and plural forms.


== List ==
== List ==
Apologists often (always) don't show the words and their context<ref>Like here [http://masjidtucson.org/quran/miracle/word_month_occurs_Quran_12_times.html]</ref>, but there it is:
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!Total count
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|13||9:5||ٱلْأَشْهُرُ ||months [sacred]||plural 5
|13||9:5||ٱلْأَشْهُرُ ||months [sacred]||plural 5
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|14||9:36||ٱلشُّهُورِ ||(of) months||plural 4
|14||9:36||ٱلشُّهُورِ ||(of) months||plural 6
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|15||9:36||شَهْرًا ||[twelve] months||plural 5 *
|15||9:36||شَهْرًا ||[twelve] months||plural 7 *
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|16||34:12||شَهْرٌ 2||a month||singular 8
|16||34:12||شَهْرٌ 2||a month||singular 8
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|17||34:12||شَهْرٌ 3||a month||'''singular 9'''
|17||34:12||شَهْرٌ 3||a month||'''singular 9'''
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|18||46:15||شَهْرًا ||[thirty] months||plural 6 *
|18||46:15||شَهْرًا ||[thirty] months||plural 8 *
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|19||58:4||شَهْرَيْنِ ||two months||dual 2
|19||58:4||شَهْرَيْنِ ||two months||dual 2
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|20||65:4||أَشْهُرٍ ||[three] months||plural 7
|20||65:4||أَشْهُرٍ ||[three] months||plural 9
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|21||97:3||شَهْرٍ 4||[thousand] months||plural 8 *
|21||97:3||شَهْرٍ 4||[thousand] months||plural 10 *
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* (*) In these 3 cases the word itself seems to be in the singular and that is how apologists get to the number 12, but the arabic language allows to construct the plural with a singular word and from the context we can clearly see that it is meant to be plural.  
* *In these verses, the meaning is plural, but Arabic renders plural nouns greater than ten in their singular forms. This is the origin of the claim that the singular word appears exactly 12 times.  
** 9:36 - .. ٱثْنَا عَشَرَ شَهْرًا .. - ..tweleve months..
** 9:36 - .. ٱثْنَا عَشَرَ شَهْرًا .. - .. twelve months ..
** 46:15 - .. ثَلَٰثُونَ شَهْرًا .. - thirty months ..
** 46:15 - .. ثَلَٰثُونَ شَهْرًا .. - .. thirty months ..
** 97:3 - .. أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ .. - thousand months ..
** 97:3 - .. أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ .. - .. thousand months ..


== Conclusions ==
==See also==
=== Main ===
* [[365 days miracle in the Quran]]
* The word شهر does not appear in the Qur'an 12 times, but 21 times.
* [[Word Count Miracles in the Qur'an]]
* The word شهر appears 9 times in the singular.
* [[Dunya and akhira word count in the Qur'an]]
* The word شهر in its basic form (consisting only of the trilateral root ش - ه - ر (ra - ha - shin) without any suffix/prefix letters and while ignoring the differences in diacritics) appears 4 times in the Qur'an.
* [[Iman and kufr word count in the Qur'an]]
* [[Land to water ratio miracle in the Qur'an]]
* [[Man and woman word count in the Qur'an]]
* [[Paradise and hell word count in the Qur'an]]


=== Other ===
* Apologists used a different method of word counting for the "12 months miracle", then for the "[[365 days miracle in the Quran|365 days miracle]]", because otherwise they wouldn't get those "miraculous" numbers.
** They didn't count the word day with ب ("bi-") prefix in the days miracle, but now they do count the word month with the bi- prefix
** They didn't count the word day with و ("waw-") prefix in the days miracle, but now they do count the word month with the waw- prefix.


{{Translation-links-english|[[Zázrak 12 měsíců v Koránu|Czech]]}}


== References ==
== References ==
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