Word Count Miracles in the Qur'an: Difference between revisions

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===Ignoring the Meaning of the Arabic Words===
===Ignoring the Meaning of the Arabic Words===
====Including words with other meanings====
Some Arabic words have more than one meaning. For example the word الجنة means "paradise", but it can also mean "jinn" (like in the last verse of the Qur'an <ref>Quran 114:6
Some Arabic words have more than one meaning. For example the word الجنة means "paradise", but it can also mean "jinn" (like in the last verse of the Qur'an <ref>Quran 114:6
* "From among the jinn and the men."
* "From among the jinn and the men."
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Or in other cases, when the word count is not interesting, they start excluding the words with other meanings to get a more interesting number.
Or in other cases, when the word count is not interesting, they start excluding the words with other meanings to get a more interesting number.


====Presenting the list only in Arabic====
=====Presenting the list only in Arabic=====
When the word has other meanings, then it is misleading to show the list just in Arabic and let people who don't understand Arabic think that this word has always the same meaning.
When the word has other meanings, then it is misleading to show the list just in Arabic and let people who don't understand Arabic think that this word has always the same meaning.
====Mistranslations====
When apologists find two words which occur the same number of time, but they are not very related, then they translate them a little differently.
* In the "tongue"-"sermon" word count they actually counted the word "admonition", not "sermon". But "sermon" sounded better with the word "tongue"
* In the "hardship"-"patience" they ignored the word "hardship" and counted the word "severe" instead, because they couldn't get equal word count with the word "hardship".


===Selective Choice of the Form of the Miracle===
===Selective Choice of the Form of the Miracle===
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