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===The word count=== | ===The word count=== | ||
The list showed that the word "garden" appears '''71 times''' in the context of "gardens in paradise". If we add the | The list showed that the word "garden" appears '''71 times''' in the context of "gardens in paradise" including '''10 singular forms'''. If we count the (plural) occurrence the verse 71:12, then we get 72 occurrences. | ||
If we count | If we add the numbers 52 from "paradise" word count and the 71 from the "gardens in paradise" word count, we get the number 123. | ||
If we add the numbers 52 from "paradise" word count and the 10 from the singular "garden in paradise" word count, we get the number 62. | |||
It seems that there is no way of getting the number 77, so how did apologists get to the number 77? They took the 57 occurrences of الجنة, regardless if it is the word paradise (al-jannah) or jinn (al-jinnah). Then they took the 24 singular forms of جنة, regardless if it is the word garden (jannah), madness (jinnah) or cover (junnah). So now they have 57 + 24 = 81 words. And now comes the biggest absurdity. They excluded 4 clearly singular forms in these verses, because they appear with a suffix: | It seems that there is no way of getting the number 77, so how did apologists get to the number 77? They took the 57 occurrences of the Arabic word الجنة, regardless if it is the word paradise (''al-jannah'') or jinn (''al-jinnah''). Then they took the 24 singular forms of جنة, regardless if it is the word garden (''jannah''), madness (''jinnah'') or cover (''junnah''). So now they have 57 + 24 = 81 words. And now comes the biggest absurdity. They excluded 4 clearly singular forms in these verses, because they appear with a suffix: | ||
* 1) 18:35 (جَنَّتَهُۥ) - his garden | * 1) 18:35 (جَنَّتَهُۥ) - his garden | ||
* 2) 18:39 (جَنَّتَكَ) - your garden | * 2) 18:39 (جَنَّتَكَ) - your garden | ||
* 3) 18:40 (جَنَّتِكَ) - your garden | * 3) 18:40 (جَنَّتِكَ) - your garden | ||
* 4) 89:30 (جَنَّتِى) - my garden | * 4) 89:30 (جَنَّتِى) - my garden | ||
The suffixes just make the form possessive. But it is still garden. A singular form of the word garden! | |||
The suffixes just make the form possessive. But it is still garden. A singular form of the word garden! The words with a prefix are counted and the words with a suffix are not counted! | |||
==Hell - جهنم (''jahannam'')== | ==Hell - جهنم (''jahannam'')== | ||