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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" (ٱلْجَنَّةِ, ''al-jannah'') or "jinn" (ٱلْجِنَّةِ, ''al-jinnah''). Without the diacritics, it can be both. Then they took the 24 singular forms of جنة, regardless if it is the word garden (جَنَّة, ''jannah''), madness (جِنَّة, ''jinnah'') or cover (جُنَّة, ''junnah''). So now they have 57 + 24 = 81 words. And they get 77 by excluding 4 clearly singular forms, 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" (ٱلْجَنَّةِ, ''al-jannah'') or "jinn" (ٱلْجِنَّةِ, ''al-jinnah''). Without the diacritics, it can be both. Then they took the 24 singular forms of جنة, regardless if it is the word garden (جَنَّة, ''jannah''), madness (جِنَّة, ''jinnah'') or cover (جُنَّة, ''junnah''). So now they have 57 + 24 = 81 words. And they get 77 by excluding 4 clearly singular forms, because they appear with a suffix: | ||
* 1) 18:35 (جَنَّتَهُۥ) - his garden | * 1) 18:35 (جَنَّتَهُۥ, ''jannata'''hu''''') - his garden | ||
* 2) 18:39 (جَنَّتَكَ) - your garden | * 2) 18:39 (جَنَّتَكَ, ''jannata'''ka''''') - your garden | ||
* 3) 18:40 (جَنَّتِكَ) - your garden | * 3) 18:40 (جَنَّتِكَ, ''jannati'''ka''''') - your garden | ||
* 4) 89:30 (جَنَّتِى) - my garden | * 4) 89:30 (جَنَّتِى, ''jannate'''e''''') - 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! What makes it even stranger is that occurrences with a prefix are counted. | ||
It seems however that they used a completely different tactic for this word count, they just searched through the whole Qur'an without diacritics for "جنة". From this search they got 78 occurrences and they excluded the occurrence of أَجِنَّةٌ (''ajinnatun''), which means "fetuses" in the verse 53:32. By this search all plural forms got excluded, because plural forms don't end with a ة (''ta marbuta''), but a regular ت (''ta''). And it also explains why the words with suffixes were not counted, because ة appears only at the end of words and when a suffix is added, the ة changes into ت. Apologists were not worried, that many words which end on the sequence جنة have a different meaning than "paradise" or "garden". Not only do they count occurrences, where the garden is somewhere on earth, but also words like "madness", "jinns", "cover".. also they were not worried that by this harsh method, they excluded clearly singular forms of the word "garden". | |||
==Hell - جهنم (''jahannam'')== | ==Hell - جهنم (''jahannam'')== | ||