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{{Core Miracles}}
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=="Freedom" mentioned zero times==
The word "freedom" (حرية, ''huriya'') doesn't appear anywhere in the Qur'an.
The word عبد ('abd) meaning "slave" appears more than one hundred times throughout the Qur'an <ref>http://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=Ebd</ref>, while the word "free man" (الحر, ''al-hurr'') appears only in one verse <ref>http://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=Hrr</ref> in the context of killing him although he may be innocent:
* ''"O you who have believed, prescribed for you is legal '''retribution for those murdered - the free for the free''', the slave for the slave, and the female for the female. But whoever overlooks from his brother anything, then there should be a suitable follow-up and payment to him with good conduct. This is an alleviation from your Lord and a mercy. But whoever transgresses after that will have a painful punishment."'' (verse 2:178)
** The Tafsir Al-Jalalayn further explains: ''"O you who believe prescribed made obligatory for you is retaliation on equal terms regarding the slain both in the attributes of the one slain and in the action involved; a free man is killed for a free man and not for a slave; and a slave for a slave and a female for a female. The Sunna makes it clear that a male may be killed in retaliation for a female and that religious affiliation should be taken into account also so that a Muslim cannot be killed in return for an disbeliever even if the former be a slave and the latter a free man."'' <ref>http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=2&tAyahNo=178&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2</ref>
That means for example, if a slave from group A kills a free man from group B, then according to the Qur'an, the murderer from group A should be living happily, but someone from group B should kill an innocent free man from group A.


==Other miracles==
==Other miracles==
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