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 ** No. Occurrences of the word ''noor'' (نور) were already listed in the article [[Sun and light word count in the Qur'an]]. This word appears 43 times. There are also 6 occurrences of the word ''muneer'' (منير), which is however translated as "enlightening" or "illuminating" most of the time.
 ** This word count is in contradiction with the "''Sun'' and ''light'' both appear 33 times" miracle.
+* The word "payment" or "reward" (الجزاء, ''al-jaza'u'') is repeated 117 times and the word "forgiveness" (المغفرة, ''al-mughfira'') is repeated 234 times (a double word count).
+** The word ''al-jaza'u'' is derived from the root جزي (j-z-y). When we search for all occurrences of words derived from this root in the Qur'an, we get '''118 occurrences''' <ref>http://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=jzy</ref>. Most of these occurrences are verbs. So apologists not only counted it wrong, but also counted nouns and verbs together to get the result. The words like "jizya" or "punishment" or "penalty" share the meaning of "payment", "reward" or "recompense" with the other words, so there it no reason to exclude them. And if we should exclude them, then we should exclude them all.
+** Does this word count mean that all payments should be forgiven? Is it just to forgive payments? Shouldn't the message be that ''bad deeds'' should be forgiven? The words "payment" and "forgiveness" don't seem to be related so even if there was a double word count for "forgiveness" it wouldn't mean anything.
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