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A tree diagram of the Qur'anic initial letters, labelled with the respective numbers of occurrences. To be read right to left. There are 14 distinct combinations; the most frequent are ʾAlif Lām Mīm and Ḥāʾ Mīm, occurring six times each. Of the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet, exactly one half appear as muqatta'at, either singly or in ...
The Opening, the Opening of the Divine Writ, The Essence of the Divine Writ, The Surah of Praise, The Foundation of the Qur'an, and The Seven Oft-Repeated [Verses] [6] 7 (1) Makkah: 5: 48: Whole Surah [6] The fundamental principles of the Qur'an in a condensed form. [6] It reads: “(1) In the name of God (Allah), the Compassionate and Merciful ...
Chronologically, this was the first appearance of any of the "disjointed" [i.e., single] letters which precede a number of the surahs of the Qur'an, [2] while in Quranic order this is the last surah to have the appearance of muqattaat.
The Arabic Sun consonants in White and Moon consonants in Black The Maltese moon consonants highlighted in black, the sun consonants in white, and the vowels in gray. In Arabic and Maltese, all consonants are classified into two distinct groups known as sun letters (Arabic: حروف شمسية ḥurūf shamsiyyah, Maltese: konsonanti xemxin) and moon letters (Arabic: حروف قمرية ...
Most of these ten recitations are known by the scholars and people who have received them, and their number is due to their spreading in the Islamic world. [5] [6]However, the general population of Muslims dispersed in most countries of the Islamic world, their number estimated in the millions, read Hafs's narration on the authority of Aasim, which is more simply known as the Hafs' an Aasim ...
ʿIlm al-Ḥurūf (Arabic: عِلْم الْحُرُوف) or the science of letters, also called Islamic letterism, is a process of Arabic numerology whereby numerical values assigned to Arabic letters are added up to provide total values for words in the Quran, similar to Hebrew gematria. Used to infer meanings and reveal secret or hidden ...
The Quran itself talks about it being recorded in the preserved tablet in heaven (al-lawh al-mahfooz), [9] but makes no mention of there being any variant modes/forms/readings of it. However, there are numerous references to the seven ahruf in Sunni hadith literature.
Meccan surahs are typically shorter than Medinan surahs, with relatively short verses , and mostly come near the end of the Qur'an. (As a general rule, the chapters of the Qur'an are ordered from longest to shortest.) Most of the chapters containing Muqatta'at are Meccan, [a] Except 2, 3 and 13. [2]