Quranic Terms
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Iltifat — The Sudden Style Shift
Definition: Shifting from one style to another in speech — third person to second person, or vice versa.
Example in Al-Fatiha…
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Ijaz and Itnab — Eloquent Brevity and Purposeful Elaboration
Ijaz (brevity): Much meaning in few words — highest eloquence level.
Example: "In retribution there is life for you" — four wor…
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Quranic Verse-End — Divine Rhythm
Definition: The word ending each verse — not poetic rhyme but magnificent prose rhythm.
Types: Same ending letter, matching …
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Legislative Inimitability — The Complete Legal System
Definition:
Legislative Inimitability is humanity's inability to devise a legal and moral system matching the Quran in comprehe…
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Iltifat (Rhetorical Shift) — Definition, Types, and Benefits
Definition:
Iltifat is the shift from one grammatical person to another — from first to third person, or from third to second, …
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Uslub al-Hakim (The Sage's Style) — Definition and Quranic Example
Definition:
Uslub al-Hakim is when a speaker responds to a questioner with other than what was expected — either because the wi…
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Tadmin (Semantic Inclusion) in the Quran — Meaning and Examples
Definition:
Tadmin is when a verb or noun carries the meaning of another word and therefore follows that word's grammatical pat…
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Abrogation (Naskh) — Conditions for Abrogating and Abrogated Texts
Definition:
Legal abrogation (Naskh): the lifting of an established Sharia ruling by a later Sharia evidence — proof of divinel…
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Isra'iliyyat (Judeo-Christian Narrations)
Definition: Narrations transmitted from the People of the Book — Jews and Christians — that entered Quranic exegesis and hadith …
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Shādhdhah (Irregular) Qira'at
Definition: A reading that lacks one of the conditions required for an accepted qira'a, even if its chain of transmission is sou…
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Narration by Meaning (Riwaya bil-Ma'na)
Definition: When a narrator conveys the content of a Prophetic hadith in his own words rather than the Prophet's exact wording, …
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Scientific Interpretation of the Quran (Al-Tafsir al-'Ilmi)
Definition: Directing Quranic verses toward modern empirical scientific discoveries — deriving cosmological, medical, and physic…
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Ruh and Nafs in the Quran — The Precise Distinction Between the Two Terms
First: Nafs (Soul/Self)
Used in the Quran with multiple meanings:
The person/individual: "Every soul shall taste death" (3…
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Al-Huruf al-Muqattaah — Schools of Thought and Most Notable Opinions
Definition:
Al-Huruf al-Muqattaah (disconnected letters / fawatih): the alphabetic letters that open some surahs — like Alif-La…
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Quranic Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence — Agreed-Upon Foundations
Meaning:
The Quran is the primary source of Islamic legislation. Scholars of usul al-fiqh derived near-universally agreed-upon …
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Numerical Inimitability — Its Limits and Accepted Criteria Among Scholars
Meaning:
Numerical inimitability: using the proportionality of word, letter, and verse counts in the Quran as evidence of its m…
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Medical and Scientific Inimitability — Accepted Examples and Prohibitions
Meaning:
Scientific inimitability: correspondence between Quranic allusions and recently discovered scientific facts — used as …
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Thematic Unity of the Surah — Does Each Surah Have a Central Theme?
The question:
Does each Quranic surah have a unifying central theme that connects all its verses? — A contested issue among sch…
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Prepositions in the Quran — "Fi", "Ala", "Min" and the Secrets of Their Selection
Prepositions and the secret of selection:
Scholars of balaghah pay close attention to why one preposition was chosen over anothe…
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The Parenthetical Clause (Al-Jumla Al-Itiradhiyya) — Definition, Quranic Examples, and Function
Definition:
The parenthetical clause (jumla itiradhiyya): a clause inserted between two parts of another clause for a rhetorical…
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Al-Tadhjil — The Independent Concluding Clause for Emphasis
Definition:
Al-Tadhjil: adding an independent-meaning clause after a preceding clause to reinforce and confirm it — like a prove…
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Singular and Plural in the Quran — When Each Is Used for Rhetorical Effect
Plural where singular is expected:
"My Lord, send me back" (23:99) — the speaker addresses one Lord but uses the plural for maje…
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