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Numerical Miracles in the Qur'an : 365 days in a Quranic Year?
How many days are there in a year according to the Qur'an?
In many Muslim lists of miracles of the Qur'an intended to prove
the divine origin of the book, one item regarding the occurance
of certain words in the Arabic text of the Qur'an occurs again
and again:
These are really amazing statistics in Quran -
contributed by Hasnain Jaffery.
...
el-shahr (the month) 12 times
el-youm (the day) 365 times
...
At first sight, this looks impressive. But there are at least
two problems with this claim.
1. What has been counted? The word for "day" actually occurs
475
times in the Qur'an!
2. What is a "month" and a "year"? The Islamic calendar is not the same as
the generally used solar calendar. In the Qur'an a month is a lunar month of 29
or 30 days, and the Qur'an explicitly defines the length of a year to be 12 lunar
months which is 354 days long, not 365 days.
Why then would Muslims be so eager to prove that the number of occurrences
of the word "day" in the Qur'an corresponds to the Western calendar and
not to the "divinely mandated" Islamic calendar?
More thoughts on this topic will be added shortly, but this should
be sufficient to dampen some of the unfounded enthusiasm around
this issue.
The Qur'an and Numerics
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