Internal Rhymes as Evidence for Old Hijazi: Difference between revisions

In 2014, Pierre Larcher was the first to note this sort of internal rhymes in the Quran. He provided two examples. One of them is verse Q96:16 <ref>Previous source, p.12</ref>

 

<span dir="rtl" lang="en">﴿‌نَاصِيَةٍ كَاذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ ۝﴾</span>

)(A lying, sinning forelock.)

 

Arab grammarians claim that this spelling is the result of the rule that every word is spelled in its pausal form. But what if these words were pronounced the same way they were spelled? In other words, what if each of these words was pronounced in the pausal form? The result is that the three words would rhyme with each other:

 

nāṣiyah kādhibah khāṭiyah.

 

The internal rhyme is clear as all of the three words follow the same scheme:

 

Marijn Van Putten discovered a few more internal rhymes, including this general rhyming scheme:

 

{{Quote|Case in the Quranic Consonantal By Marijn Van Putten, p.13|the epithets of Allah which generally form verse-final internal rhymes in the shape CaC(ī/ū)C in pairs of two, e.g. Q2:173, 182, 192 ġafūrun raḥīm /ġafūr raḥīm/ ‘forgiving, merciful’ Q4:26; Q8:71; Q9:15 ˁalīmun ḥakīm /ˁalīm ḥakīm/ ‘knowing, wise’ Q64:18 al-ˁazīzu l-ḥakīm /al-ˁazīz al-ḥakīm/ ‘the powerful, the wise’ Q35:30, 34; 42:23 ġafūrun šakūr /ġafūr šakūr/ ‘forgiving, appreciative}}

 

Based on the evidence of internal rhymes in the Quran, Van Putten concludes that the original language of the Quran had the following features that sets it apart from classical Arabic<ref>(Case in the Quranic Consonantal Text, p.13</ref>:

Besides the above mentioned rhymes, Idris Al-Arabi discovered a huge number of Old Hijazi internal rhymes that you can sea here.

These internal rhymes can be classified into two categories:  

 

1-Individual instances.  

 

2-Verse-final attributes of Allah, which were already noted by Van Putten but without laying out every unique case of them. There are 32 unique Old Hijazi internal rhymes of this type, 284 with repetition.