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This article lists all occurrences of the words "life" and "death" in the Qur'an. The purpose is to analyze the claim that they both appear 145 times. It can also serve as a reference for people who want to know where the Qur'an speaks about life or death. | This article lists all occurrences of the words "life" and "death" in the Qur'an. The purpose is to analyze the claim that they both appear 145 times. It can also serve as a reference for people who want to know where the Qur'an speaks about life or death. | ||
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*There is no way to get 145 occurrences of the words "life" nor "death", because there are less than 145 derived nouns. So in order to get 145, nouns and verbs would have to be counted together. This still would not change the fact that the words "life" and "death" do not appear the same number of times. | *There is no way to get 145 occurrences of the words "life" nor "death", because there are less than 145 derived nouns. So in order to get 145, nouns and verbs would have to be counted together. This still would not change the fact that the words "life" and "death" do not appear the same number of times. | ||
**Using a | **Using a consistent method of counting for this "meaning word count miracle", that is counting words with a similar meaning, would produce 165 occurrences for "death" because all the words from the root موت have something to do with death or dying. | ||
*Given the diversity of word forms for either of the two words, there perhaps exist hundreds of possible arbitrary permutations one could choose from to do the word count. That some count definitions produce interesting results is thus unremarkable. This is because with a greater number of permutations to pick from, the chance that an interesting outcome becomes possible increases (and is thus a less impressive, rare, or unlikely finding) | *Given the diversity of word forms for either of the two words, there perhaps exist hundreds of possible arbitrary permutations one could choose from to do the word count. That some count definitions produce interesting results is thus unremarkable. This is because with a greater number of permutations to pick from, the chance that an interesting outcome becomes possible increases (and is thus a less impressive, rare, or unlikely finding) | ||