Talk:Muqattaʿat

Discrepancy
"Additionally, all but 3 of these suras are Makkan suras (the exceptions are suras 2, 3, 13.)"

but according to the artcile for sura 13, it is a Makkan sura.

Bias
I removed the biased paragraph;

''It is said that the letter A.L.M. are borrowed from Hinduism's A.U.M. Both are pronounced the same. Furthermore, the Hindus also begin their prayers with this chant and the mohamadhans at the time had borrowed this highly religious chat to validate and give legitimacy to their newly formed imperialist dogma.''

As well as being completely unverified it's totally POV.

Hebrew
Ani Lo Meamin —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.252.254.29 (talk) 02:10, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

And that means...? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.203.222.74 (talk) 04:24, 14 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Nun (ن) symbolizing "fish" identifying the sura dedicated to Jonah, or Ta (ط) representing "serpent"


 * These are the meanings of the names of the same letters (Nun and Teth) in the original Phoenician alphabet.


 * Nuttyskin (talk) 23:36, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * The mumbled alphabet rather. No th so have to do with t (TA). See proto-semitic inventory. 128.206.16.115 (talk) 06:02, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Layton, in a translation of the new Nag Hammadi text about Nun the twisted serpent, writes that Nun is a primordial entity with Symbol N and serpent. [The Gnostic Scriptures/ Bentley Layton, David Brakke/ 2021/ pp. 220, 225-6.] The fish is an incomplete meaning for Nun and if we accept the sea serpent then the letter N in the first verse of Al-Qalam will be deciphered clearly, which correlates Ibn Abbas's narrations. There is more pieces of evidence that attest Nun as a sea serpent, and links it to clear meanings about the first stage of creation, if you are interested just inform us. Keturah.Nun (talk) 20:49, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Muhammad-Baqir
I have read that the fifth Imam composed a commentary on the disconnected letters, and that he performed arithmetic on their numerical values; can anyone add to this? J S Ayer (talk) 14:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

meaningful word
''In the Arabic language, these letters are written together like a word, but each letter is pronounced separately. None of these combinations actually form a meaningful Arabic word.''

alam? (like surat al fil) --99.245.206.188 (talk) 03:31, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

One letter is written in two styles. [Refer 19:01 and 20:01]
Please tell us: which letter (and where) and what the difference in "style" is

or delete the mysterious statement.--85.178.69.199 (talk) 04:24, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Modern Research
I've no problem with having a paragraph on Christoph Luxenberg's theory but only if someone actually describes what it is. Since no explanation of the theory is given on the page such a link should not be presented as a part of the body of the article. M-Henry (talk) 23:05, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Can it be that the letters were monograms of the persons accordind to whom the surahs were compiled? Since there were many ways and opinions to arrange verses into chapters, the scholars who wrote the first Koran added references that indicated the version of each surah that was then considered to be the best version. There is an evident Biblical comparison, i.e. "This gospel is according to james..." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.136.44.107 (talk) 08:18, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

Mathematical Structure based on 19 [74:30] within Initialled Suras (Chapter with Muqatta'at)
Peace be upon you all,

God Willing I intend adding following within the "Modern Research" section, further substantiating the understanding on Muqatta'at as presented by Dr. Rashad Khalifa.

1. The total of the 29 sura numbers where the Quranic Initials occur is 2+3+7+...+50+68 = 822, and 822+14 (14 sets of initials) equals 836, or 19 x 44.

2. 14 different Arabic letters, form 14 different sets of "Quranic Initials" (such as A.L.M. of 2:1), and prefix 29 suras. These numbers add up to 14+14+29 = 57= 19 x 3.

3. Between the first initialed sura (Sura 2) and the last initialed sura (Sura 68) there are 38 un-initialed suras 19 x 2.

4. Between the first and last initialed sura there are 19 sets of alternating “initialed” and “uninitialed” suras.

Let me know if there are any concerns, else will include these in another 36 hours time God Willing.

(DukhanSmoke (talk) 14:46, 14 December 2011 (UTC))

God Willing more in this section I intend adding,

TABLE 1: Mathematical Coding of the Number of Verses with Initials

TABLE 2: Multiplying the First Two Columns of Table 1, Instead of Adding

TABLE 3: Mathematical Properties of the Initialed Suras

There are few more tables that are equally profound, however at the moment if you all are OK I will include these God Willing in another 36 hours time on the main page.

Peace

(DukhanSmoke (talk) 18:35, 17 December 2011 (UTC))


 * > DukhanSmoke ... Yes, there are indeed some interesting and quite impressive examples, in particular -

Sura "Al-Qalam" (no. 68) [carrying the Qur'anic initial "Noon", which occurs exactly 133 (=19 x 7) times in that sura], and Sura "Al-Shoora" (no. 42) [carrying the Qur'anic initial "Qaf", which occurs exactly 57 (=19 x 3) times in that sura]. --DLMcN (talk) 17:44, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Last section
Who put the section linking alif-lam-mim to aum? It cites no sources and sounds rather like pure opinion. I'm removing the section unless anyone can give a good reason why it should stay. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.48.57.148 (talk) 01:11, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

It is the most famous Muqatta'at!--79.69.96.179 (talk) 17:37, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Nonsense
From the article:

"This apparent lack of inquisitiveness is cited as proof that such abbreviations were well known to the Arabs of the time and were in vogue long before the advent of Islam."

We have no other texts from the time that uses or mentions these abbreviations, so that cannot be true.

There are only two likely explanations:

1) The letters were taken to be mystic names / codes or something similar and the followers were afraid to question them, perhaps fearing such questions to betray lack of faith on their part. Or perhaps they simply didn't care, much the same as most people react to e.g. buzzwords nowadays.

2) The letters weren't in the Koran when it was originally authored and only inserted later when it was transcribed. Note that we don't have an original Koran. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.81.0 (talk) 01:30, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

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Taha name of Prophet Muhammad
It is mentioned that these can be references to names of God, but in one case, Taha is a recognized name of Prophet Muhammad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:1C0:6A00:6C80:C9CA:8690:39DA:FEF (talk) 03:14, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Translation
Would these be better translated as "disjointed" or "disjoined"? Why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:20c0:f600:ed23:89b:cef9:7c07 (talk • contribs)


 * It isn't a matter of translation, rather one of description. The intention is to say that the letters are written separated from the text that follows. For this meaning, "disjoined" is correct and "disjointed" is incorrect. I'm not entirely happy about this because "disjoined" is a rare word that many readers will not know. Zerotalk 03:58, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Chants
Hocuspocus abracadabra? Grow up, is any conjecture thought up by some crypto polemicist added now? Go back to the catholic encyclopedia. 128.206.16.115 (talk) 04:58, 1 November 2022 (UTC)