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This article analyzes the claim that the words "tongue" and "sermon" both appear 25 times in the Qur'an.
==Tongue==
==Tongue==



Revision as of 10:56, 22 November 2016

This article analyzes the claim that the words "tongue" and "sermon" both appear 25 times in the Qur'an.

Tongue

Count Verse Word in Arabic Translation
1 3:78
2 4:46
3 5:78
4 14:4
5 16:62
6 16:103
7 16:103
8 16:116
9 19:50
10 19:97
11 20:27
12 24:15
13 24:24
14 26:13
15 26:84
16 26:195
17 28:34
18 30:22
19 33:19
20 44:58
21 46:12
22 48:11
23 60:2
24 75:16
25 90:9

Sermon

The Arabic word for "sermon" is خطبة (khutbah) [1]. When you search for the word "sermon" in the English translations, you will find exactly 0 occurrences [2]. And when you search through the Arabic Qur'an it doesn't get any better. The word is derived from the root خطب (kh-t-b). When we search for all words derived from this root, we get this list:

Count Verse Word in Arabic Translation
1 2:235 خِطْبَةِ marriage proposal
2 11:37 تُخَٰطِبْنِى address me
3 12:51 خَطْبُكُنَّ your affair
4 15:57 خَطْبُكُمْ your business
5 20:95 خَطْبُكَ your case
6 23:27 تُخَٰطِبْنِى address me
7 25:63 خَاطَبَهُمُ address them
8 28:23 خَطْبُكُمَا matter of you
9 38:20 ٱلْخِطَابِ the speech
10 38:23 ٱلْخِطَابِ the speech
11 51:31 خَطْبُكُمْ your mission
12 78:37 خِطَابًا addressing

There are nouns and verbs together and only two cases which are close to the meaning of "sermon". These are the verses 38:20 and 38:23, but in the context, they are not talking about a sermon. And even if we counted all the words from this root we would get max 12 occurrences.

Admonition

If you want to know the Arabic word for this miracle, you will probably have to search through the Arabic internet for the word repetition miracles in the Qur'an and you will find that the two words are "tongue" and "admonishment" [3] (not "sermon").

Count Verse Word in Arabic Translation
1 2:66
2 2:231
3 2:232
4 2:275
5 3:138
6 4:34
7 4:58
8 4:63
9 4:66
10 5:46
11 7:145
12 7:164
13 10:57
14 11:46
15 11:120
16 16:90
17 16:125
18 24:17
19 24:34
20 26:136
21 26:136
22 31:13
23 34:46
24 58:3
25 65:2

Conclusions

a

See Also

a

References

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khutbah
  2. http://www.searchtruth.com/search.php?keyword=sermon&chapter=&translator=2&search=1&start=0&records_display=10&search_word=all
  3. http://vb.tafsir.net/tafsir2551/#.WDLqkn30eCQ
    • "اللسان تكررت 25 مره والموعظه تكررت 25 مره"
    • "The "tongue" (اللسان) is repeated 25 times and the "admonition" (الموعظه) is repeated 25 times."