Is all the miracle found in every verse of the Quran? What is the secret of the disconnected letters?

 

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,

the Most Merciful, and prayers and peace be upon the Seal of the Messengers of Allah, his pure family, his righteous companions, and those who followed with goodness and followed in the footsteps of the Chosen One. After that,

the topic is copied for its benefit and great utility.
It was written by my virtuous brother ayoop2 {Khattab Al-Masry}
in the Followers of the Messengers Forum.
May Allah reward him well for it and benefit him with it
on the Day when neither wealth nor children will be of any benefit, except for he who comes to Allah with a sound heart.

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is in the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Praise be to Allah, the Mover of the clouds, the Revealer of the Book, the Defeater of the Confederates, who opened the Book with His praise, and prayers and peace be upon the One who brought the truth and the decisive word, when a star rises and a meteor sets. After that,

recently, I received several questions from Christians about the Qur’an and the aspects of its miraculous nature . Among his questions was: What is the aspect of the miraculous nature in each verse of the Qur’an ? What is the secret of the separate letters in the Qur’an ? The whole of his dialogue revolved around this matter, taking verse by verse from the Quran, trying to understand the chapter of the miracle . In fact, I realize the suffering of Christians in trying to refute the miracle of the Holy Quran. It is a difficult and exhausting matter that always and forever ends in failure and its owner suffers and then his effort goes in vain. This is not new, and in order not to prolong it, I have placed this small research in the hands of the reader, calling upon God to benefit from it everyone who reads it. So I begin, seeking help from the Lord of the Worlds, like this: The Quran is the speech of God Almighty, a miracle by all standards. It is a miraculous system and structure built with letters, meanings, ideas, and legislation, with suggestions and sounds, with sentences and verses, with pauses and connection, and the permissibility and prohibition of pauses, with extension and assimilation, with numbers, signs, pronouns, and names, with news and information, with threats and intimidation, with encouragement and intimidation, with description and clarification, with suspense and repulsion. Yes, every letter in the Quran was placed according to a perfect divine system and a high, sublime, delicate, wise arrangement, far removed from any error. What I am referring to here is that the miracle is present in every letter, every verse, and every surah. Therefore, the Prophet of Allah addressed the infidels and polytheists in public, challenging them and asking them to produce even one surah from the Quran. They were unable to do so and chose war, sword, spear, and loss of money, children, and lives rather than produce a surah like it. If they were able to, they would have done so, but the matter is greater than that for them to do . This will be referred to in its proper place, God willing. If this is the case, then referring to the miracle of every letter in the Quran is obligatory and necessary, as will come. However, since the Holy Quran is a miraculous system, as we have mentioned, it is not necessary to cut it up or separate one of its letters. The question is: What is the miracle in this letter and not the rest of the letters? All the letters of the Arabic language are the same, they are letters in their entirety and their combinations form words and sentences from which meanings and ideas are understood. So it is not necessary to ask: What is the miracle in the letter (ص)? The letter (ص) that appears in


The Quran is the same letter that appears in other books, but this letter became miraculous because it appears within a system that is itself a miracle as a whole. This does not negate the fact that the parts of that system are also miraculous, provided that the part is not divided and loses its meaning or goes outside that system, as we will also explain, God willing. Points that must be noted: * We have never claimed, and will never claim, thatthe Quranis miraculous linguistically only, meaning that language and its existence are the reason forthe Quranmiraculous. We have not limited the aspects ofthe miraculousness in it at all, nor have we specified them in some areas rather than others. * If we point out a miracle in one of the arts, this miracle will not be understood and perceived except by those who are experts in that art and know it so that they can perceive the aspect ofthe miraculousness in it. * We can explain the reason for the miraculousness of each verse to whoever wants. * It is known that what is considered in every art is the statement of its experts. Therefore, Allah, the Almighty, did not send a prophet or messenger with a miracle that his people did not understand or comprehend and understand the aspect ofthe miracle in it. And He did not send a prophet or messenger with a miracle unless his people were the most skilled in it at that time or the most in need of it, so it would be more deserving and clearer to establish the argument against the people of that time.However, there is a difference between the miracle of every prophet in the past and the miracle of the Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace. The miracle of every prophet is used to establish the argument against his people, and the miracle of the previous prophets is more eloquent and clearer to establish the argument against his people at that time, while the Qur’an is an eternal miracle that establishes the argument against the people of every time.If this is the case, then we have not and will not claim that non-Arabs or those who do not know the Arabic language are able to understand the aspect ofthe miracle inthe Qur’anfrom this aspect. If someone were to ask, how can the argument be established against non-Arabs or those who do not know the Arabic language? I say: With the help of Allah, there are aspects to this. The first, as we have previously indicated, is that what is considered in every art is the statement of its people. It is sufficient for anyone who is not knowledgeable in the Arabic language to know the statement of the people of the language and the people of that art regardingthe Qur’anand what they said about it. The opinion of the scholars is binding on the common people, and what I will mention here is sufficient as a testimony for you. I will mention examples here as follows:










* It was narrated that Al-Walid bin Al-Mughira heard from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, the statement of Allah (Indeed, Allah commands justice and doing good and giving to kith and kin and forbids immorality and bad deeds and oppression. He instructs you that you may remember. [An-Nahl: 90]
), so he said: By Allah, it has sweetness and there is freshness upon it (i.e. beauty, joy, acceptance, and charm), and its lower part is… Lavish (i.e. very generous, like a palm tree with a strong root and good fruit) and its top is fruitful. No human being would say this. It was also narrated that when he heard the Qur’an , his heart softened, so Abu Jahl, who was his nephew, came to him and denounced him. He said, “By God, there is no one among you who is more knowledgeable about poetry than me!” By God, the one who says this does not resemble anything like it.
* It was also narrated that he (i.e. Al-Walid) gathered the Quraysh when the season came and said: The Arab delegations will come, so agree on an opinion about him so that you do not lie to each other. They said: We say he is a soothsayer. He said: By God, he is not a soothsayer, neither in his murmuring nor in his rhyming. They said: We say he is crazy. He said: He is not crazy, nor in his choking nor in his whispering. They said: We say he is a poet. He said: He is not a poet, we know all poetry, its rajaz and hazaj and verse, its mabsut and maqbouda. They said: We say he is a magician. He said: He is not a magician, nor in his spitting nor in his knots. They said: So what should we say? He said, “You would not say anything of this except that I know that it is false, and the most likely statement is that he is a magician.” Then he said, “It is magic that separates a man from his son, a man from his brother, a man from his wife, and a man from his clan.” So they dispersed and sat on the roads warning people against following the Prophet. Then God Almighty revealed about Al-Walid, “Leave Me and he whom I created alone.” [Al-Muddaththir: 11]) and the verses.
* It was narrated that Utbah spoke to the Prophet about what he had brought of his people’s disagreement, so he recited to him (Ha Meem, the Book of Fussilat) until His saying (But if they turn away, then say, “I have warned you of a thunderbolt like the thunderbolt of ‘Aad and Thamud” [Fussilat: 13]), so Utbah covered his mouth with his hand and asked him to stop, and in another narration the Prophet began to recite while Utbah was listening, placing his hands behind his back and leaning on them until he reached the prostration, so the Prophet prostrated, and Utbah stood up not knowing how to go back to his people until they came to him and he apologized to them, and he said, “By God, he spoke to me with words that my ears have never heard the like of, so I did not know what to say to him.”
* Abu Ubaidah mentioned that a Bedouin heard a man reciting (So proclaim what you are commanded) so he prostrated, and he said, “ I prostrated because of his eloquence .”
* Another polytheist heard a Muslim reciting (And when they despaired of him, they conferred privately), so he said: I bear witness that no creature is capable of such speech.
* Al-Asma'i narrated that he heard a slave girl speaking in an eloquent and suggestive manner, and it was a five- or six-letter word, saying: I seek forgiveness from Allah for all my sins, so he said to her: What are you seeking forgiveness for, while no pen has written on you? She said:
I killed a man unlawfully ..... like a soft gazelle in its bucket ..... It is the middle of the night and I have not prayed,
so he said to her: May Allah kill you, how eloquent you are!
She said: Is this considered eloquence after the Almighty’s saying: {And We inspired the mother of Moses, “Suckle him; but when you fear for him, cast him into the river and do not fear and do not grieve. Indeed, We will return him to you and will make him one of the messengers.” [Al-Qasas: 7]} So He
combined in one verse two commands and two prohibitions, two pieces of news and two pieces of glad tidings.
* In the hadith of the conversion to Islam of Abu Dharr: He described his brother Unais and said: By God, I have not heard of anyone more eloquent than my brother Unais. He contradicted twelve poets in the pre-Islamic era, and I was one of them. He went to Mecca and came to me. I said: What does a poet, soothsayer, or magician say? Then he said: I heard what the soothsayers said, but it is not what they say. I put it in the readings of poetry (i.e. its methods and types) and it did not agree, and it will not agree on the tongue of anyone after me that it is poetry, and that he is truthful and that they are liars.
* It was narrated in the two Sahihs on the authority of Jubayr ibn Mut’im, may God be pleased with him, who said: I heard the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, recite Surat At-Tur in the Maghrib prayer. When he reached the words of God, “Or were they created by nothing, or were they the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they are not certain. Or do they have the treasures of your Lord, or are they the controllers?” My heart almost flew to Islam.
* It was narrated that Ibn Al-Muqaffa’ asked to oppose the Qur’an.And he started to do it, and he passed by a boy who was reciting (And it was said, "O earth, swallow your water!"), so he went back and erased what he had written, and said, "I bear witness that this cannot be contradicted, and it is not the speech of a human being.
" Yahya bin Hakam al-Ghazal was the most eloquent man in Andalusia in his time, and it was said that he wanted to do something like this (i.e. contradict the Qur'an ), so he looked at Surat al-Ikhlas to come up with its style, and organize the speech in its manner. He said: I was overcome by a fear and tenderness from him that made me repent and return.
I said: This is from the testimony of the Arabs, ancient and modern, from the people of eloquence, poetry, fluency, literature and art in speech, and from the testimony of the infidels and those who oppose the Qur'an, and they are the most knowledgeable people on earth in language and rhetoric, and they were not able to produce anything like it, and not even one of them adhered to it, but they testified without a doubt that it is not the speech of a human being, and what was said about a book like this is the sayings of people of knowledge as was said about the Qur'an .
From this perspective, it is sufficient to establish an argument against those who are not knowledgeable in the Arabic language, since these testimonies were given by the most knowledgeable people on earth in the language, and they are opponents of the Qur’an .
Some of them, who are not Arabs, have previously said that they do not accept the miracle of the Qur’an because their language is not Arabic.
To these and those, I say that it would have been sufficient for non-Arabic speakers to have the admission of the masters of the Arabic language, its giants and scholars from the time of the revelation of the Qur’an until this time, that not a single man among them dared to produce anything like the Qur’an and failed in this challenge that has been ongoing for more than a thousand and four hundred years until the end of time, even though he was not challenging the Muslims, but his challenge was to every opposing opponent from the infidels, polytheists and atheists, so it is more eloquent.
If this is the case, then the testimony of the people of the art of speech is valid, and the people of the Arabic language were unable to argue with the Qur’an or accept the challenge, so it is binding on every non-Arab on the face of the earth, knowing that the Arabic language is not limited to Muslims, as is known, as there are those who speak Arabic from every race and color.
If the argument is that he does not know Arabic, then we have brought proof from the people of the Arabic language. Is he more knowledgeable than these people? And if he was more knowledgeable, by God, he would not have been able to produce anything like it, nor would he have said what he said, nor would he have reached its eloquence, nor its miraculousness, nor its sublimity, nor its tenderness and sweetness, nor its charm, nor its organization, art, and melody, nor the arrangement of his words, nor would he have attained certainty in what he said, nor would he have been truthful in it, nor would he have informed of the ancient unseen, nor the future unseen, nor the present unseen, nor would he have reached what the Qur’an reaches , nor would his speech be worthy of recitation, nor would hearts be reassured by it, nor would skins shudder at it, nor would he have mentioned what the Qur’an mentioned, nor warned of what the Qur’an warned against, nor threatened nor promised what it threatened, and the Qur’an promised, so the promise is what you possess, not what others possess. And all praise is due to God, Lord of the Worlds, for this blessing. This is an obligation for everyone who says, “I do not know,” for I have explained this to him. Let him oppose it if he is able, or bring something similar to it, or bring a book that contains something similar to this, if he is truthful, or let him testify that this is not contradicted and is not the words of a human being.
May God have mercy on our scholars and sheikhs, and may God reward them well on our behalf and place it in the balance of their good deeds. The one who said among them was truthful:

A sign of a man's ignorance of Arabic is that he says, "I will bring something like the Qur'an ."

The second aspect is the challenge that has existed since the time of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, until God inherits the earth and those on it, and I explain it thus:
God Almighty said, challenging the people of language and knowledge of Arabic from the polytheists at that time, in order to establish proof against them in Surat At-Tur thus:
((” Rather, they do not believe. (33) So let them produce a statement like it, if they should be truthful. (34)) At-Tur.
Then He challenged them with ten surahs, so God Almighty said in Surat Hud, the two verses:
((Or do they say, “He has fabricated it?” Say, “Then produce ten surahs like it that have been fabricated, and call upon whomever you can besides God.” If you are truthful (13) then if they do not respond to you, then know that it has been revealed with the knowledge of Allah and that there is no god except Him. So will you be Muslims? (14)
Then He challenged them with a single surah, saying in Surat Al-Baqarah:
((And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our servant, then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah, if you should be truthful. (23) So if you are not (You do, and you will never do. So fear the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.) (24)
But they did not and will not do as is their case and the case of others. Rather, they and their likes are as the Lord of Glory, the Most High, said about them, and He informed us of their condition and the condition of those who resembled them more than one thousand and four hundred years ago.
God Almighty said in Surat Yunus:
((Rather, they denied that of which they had no knowledge, and its interpretation had not yet come to them. Thus did those before them deny. So see how was the end of the wrongdoers.)) (39)
So all of them were unable to The creation to oppose what the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, brought.
Then the miracle in itself was the result of the challenge in advance, so it alone was a miracle, and the inability of all creation was recorded until the Day of Resurrection by the words of Surat Al-Isra thus:

Say, "If mankind and the jinn gathered together to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could not produce the like of it, even if they were to each other assistants." (88)

It was reported from that time that if mankind and jinn gathered together, they would not be able to oppose the Quran with anything like it. The miracle of its wording, meaning, knowledge and sciences is the most complete miracle and the greatest in importance. The matter is thus, because no one from the Arabs or others, despite the strength of their enmity and their eagerness to invalidate his command by every means and their ability to use various types of speech, was able to produce anything like it. Can anyone else be able to? Let us see what they have, if they are truthful.
We say that any book other than the Quran can be produced by humans, or even better in all aspects. There is no book that encompasses all worldly, otherworldly and legislative matters from all aspects as the Quran is . This was more thorough in establishing the argument against all the people of the earth, from humans and jinn, Arabs and non-Arabs.
The third aspect necessary to establish proof against the people of the time, other than the Arabs and all of creation, is that the Qur’an is not only miraculous in language, but the miraculousness of the Qur’an is in every field that the Qur’an addresses. There has never been a day since the revelation of the Qur’an when something appeared that contradicted the Qur’an, and it was proven to people that the Qur’an contradicted science, reason, and sound nature. Rather, it spoke of future matters that the people of that time did not know because their knowledge was limited to what they had, so its correctness was proven after dozens and hundreds of years. This is a wide door and a great field in which those who are more knowledgeable than me wrote, so we read to them and benefited from them, and because of it many scholars, doctors, and various fields converted to Islam

From the above, it becomes certain that the Qur’an is an everlasting, lasting miracle, and it is an established truth by which proof is established against the people of every time and place, white and black, Arab and non-Arab. I have indicated that the miracle of every verse and letter in the Qur’an is the result of it falling within the framework of the miraculous Qur’an as a whole and in its parts, so it is a component part of a miraculous system in its composition.
To clarify this, I will give an example of it and say:
The disconnected letters
appeared at the beginnings of some of the chapters of the Qur’an, and the number of letters that appear without repetition is fourteen letters (14). They appeared in the openings of the chapters in this manner:
the openings composed of one letter: and that is in three chapters: (Surat Sad), Qaf (Surat Qaf), and Nun (Surat Al-Qalam).
The openings consisting of two letters: This is in nine surahs, which are: Ta-Ha (Surat Ta-Ha), Ta-Sin (An-Naml), Ya-Sin (Surat Ya-Sin), Ha-Meem (Ghafir), Ha-Meem (Fussilat), Ha-Meem (Az-Zukhruf), Ha-Meem (Ad-Dukhan), Ha-Meem (Al-Jathiyah), and Ha-Meem (Al-Ahqaf).
The openings consisting of three letters: This is in thirteen surahs, which are: Alif-Lam-Meem (Al-Baqarah), Alif-Lam-Meem (Al-Imran), Alif-Lam-Meem (Yunus), Alif-Lam-Meem (Hud), Alif-Lam-Meem (Yusuf), Alif-Lam-Meem (Ibrahim), Alif-Lam-Meem (Al-Hijr), Ta-Shin-Min (Ash-Shu'ara), Ta-Shin-Min (Al-Qasas), Alif-Lam-Meem (Al-Ankabut), Alif-Lam-Meem (Ar-Rum), Luqman, and Alif-Lam-Meem (As-Sajdah).
The openings consisting of more than three letters: This is in two surahs, which are: Ka-Ha-Ya-Ain-Sad (Maryam) and Ha-Meem-Ain-Qaf (Ash-Shura).
Let us see the opinion of the commentators on this matter. I will cite an example of what Ibn Kathir, may God have mercy on him, said in his commentary at the beginning of Surat Al-Baqarah, as follows:
Others said: These letters were mentioned at the beginning of the surahs in which they were mentioned as a clarification of the “miraculousness of the Qur’an” and that creation is incapable of opposing it with anything like it, even though it is composed of these separate letters with which they communicate. Al-Razi narrated this from Al-Mubarrad and a group of scholars, and Al-Qurtubi narrated this from Al-Farra’, and Al-Zamakhshari confirmed it and supported it with the utmost support, and Imam (Ibn Taymiyyah) and our Sheikh, the hafiz (Abu Al-Hajjaj Al-Mizzi) agreed with it.
Al-Zamakhshari said: Not all of them came together at the beginning of the Qur’an, but they were repeated to be more eloquent in the challenge and rebuke, as many stories were repeated, and the explicit challenge was repeated in places, and some of them came with one letter like {Sad} and two letters like {Ha Meem} and three like {Alif, Lam, Meem} and four like {Alif, Lam, Meem} and five like {Kaf, Ha, Ya, Ain, Sad} because their speech styles include what is with one letter, two letters, three letters, four letters, and five letters, no more than that.
Ibn Kathir said: For this reason, every surah that begins with letters must mention the victory of the Qur’an, and the statement of its miraculousness and greatness, and this is known by induction in twenty-nine surahs, such as: {Alif, Lam, Meem. This is the Book about which there is no doubt} {Alif, Lam, Meem. Allah - there is no god but He, the Ever-Living, the Self-Sustaining. He has sent down to you the Book in truth} {Alif, Lam, Meem. A Book which has been revealed to you} {Alif, Lam, Meem. A Book which We have revealed to you} {Alif, Lam, Meem. A revelation from the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful} and other verses that indicate the correctness of what these people have gone to for those who look closely ( see footnote ). End quote.
I said: This is one of the aspects of the miracle of these letters. Ibn Kathir transmitted it from those who came before him. It is clearly indicative and clear in explaining the miracle of those letters, while they remain letters, not words or sentences. Their occurrence in the Qur’an as a result of a sublime, perfect arrangement and a high, subtle kindness made them a miracle. So ponder.
There is another aspect of the miracle of those letters, which I will transmit thus:
The number of letters at the beginning of some Surahs of the Qur’an is 14 letters, excluding the repeated ones, and the number of openings that begin these Surahs is also 14, excluding the repeated ones. The number 14 equals seven times two, and this indicates the existence of a solid structure for these letters based on the number seven and its multiples.
As an example of this, we turn to the first verse of the Qur’an, which is: (In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful). If we count the letters Alif, Lam, and Meem in it, we find:
Alif, Lam, Meem
3 4 3.
The number that represents the repetition of these letters in the Basmalah is 343, and this number equals seven times seven times seven!! That is:
343 = 7 x 7 x 7. Glory be to Him who has counted everything in number.
There is another beautiful aspect that I see the right to pay attention to, which is what phonetics scientists have said in the modern era after the emergence of this science, including what “Monsieur Blanchot” referred to in some places in
( Chansons de geste ), meaning: the hymn of movement.
What is noticeable about these letters together, other than the repeated ones; They represent all the phonetic phenomena found in the Arabic language - the language that the Qur’an chose as its tongue - because if we look at these letters themselves, we find that they include the voiceless and the abandoned letters, the stressed and the soft, the closed and the open and the labial.
To clarify this point a little, I say that if you look at these fourteen, you will find that they include half of the types of letters, the explanation of that is that among them:
half of the voiceless letters are : (Ṣād, Kāf, Hā, Sīn, and Hā). And half of the voiced letters
are : (Alīf, Lām, Mīm, Rā, Ayn, Tā, Qāf, Yā, and Nūn).
And half of the stressed letters are : (Alīf, Kāf, Tā, and Qāf).
And half of the soft letters are: (Lām, Mīm, Rā, Sād, Hā, Ayn, Sīn, Hā, Yā, and Nūn).
And half of the closed letters are : (Ṣād, and Tā).
Among the open letters, half of them are: (alif, lam, meem, ra, kaf, ha, ain, seen, ha, qaf, ya, and nun).
Among the elevated letters, half of them are: (qaf, sad, and ta).
Among the low letters, half of them are: (alif, lam, meem, ra, kaf, ha, ya, ain, seen, ha, and nun).
Among the letters of Qalqalah, half of them are: (qaf, and ta).
I said: This is another clear aspect that does not need criticism, and the more we contemplate, the more we become certain of its miraculousness. If these letters were combined in a sentence, its pronunciation would be like this:

A wise text with a decisive secret

God Almighty said in His Holy Book in the form of (S) thus:

{This is a blessed Book which We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], that they may ponder its verses and that those of understanding may be reminded.} [Sad: 29]

How could Muhammad (PBUH) have known all this when he could neither read nor write? How was it agreed that he would bring something like this in the Quran if it was the work of a human being, for phoneticians to discover hundreds of years later that these letters were not placed arbitrarily and were not chosen haphazardly, but rather they are (( a wise text with a decisive secret )) whose letters constitute half of the letters of each type, without any increase or decrease?!
What I would like to point out is that this manner, this arrangement, and this eloquent and wise choice did not come in a music book or a book of puzzles, but rather came within the Book of God, which contains everything, as He, the Almighty, says:

There is no creature on earth or bird that flies with its wings except that they are communities like you. We have neglected nothing in the Book. Then unto their Lord they will be gathered. (38) And those who deny Our verses are deaf and dumb, within darknesses. Whomsoever Allah wills, He sends astray, and whomsoever He wills, He places on a straight path. (39) Surah Al-An'am

And as God Almighty said:

And the Day We will raise up in every nation a witness over them from among themselves, and We will bring you as a witness over these, and We have sent down to you the Book as clarification for all things and as guidance and mercy and good tidings for the Muslims. (89) Surah An-Nahl.

A book that came to command justice, doing good, and giving to relatives, and forbids indecency, wrongdoing, and oppression. It came with the Sharia, the Oneness of Allah and His sanctification, stories of the ancients, news of the unseen, encouragement of Paradise and goodness, and warning against Hell and evil, clarification of the limits, clarification of the permissible and encouragement of it, clarification of the forbidden and prohibition of it, inheritance and its division, etc. A book that left nothing out, so how did this happen if it was made by a human?
These are aspects that I have clarified from the perspective that not only the verse in the Quran is a miracle, but even the letter in the Quran is a miracle as long as it came within the framework of that great Quranic system that did not come from a human, but rather came from Allah, the Most High, the Most Great. So I ask Allah that I have succeeded in clarifying and explaining this aspect, and whatever error or oversight it is from me and from Satan, and if there was success it is from Allah alone, and praise be to Allah for the blessing of the Quran.
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Footnote:

Ibn Kathir, may God have mercy on him, refers to the verses in the surahs that begin with the disconnected letters as follows:
1- Alif, Lam, Meem. (1) This is the Book about which there is no doubt, a guidance for those conscious of God. (2) Al-Baqarah.
2- Alif, Lam, Meem (1) Allah - there is no god but He, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of [all] existence. (2) He has sent down upon you, [O Muhammad], the Book in truth, confirming what was before it. And He sent down the Torah and the Gospel (3) before, as guidance for mankind, and He sent down the Criterion. Indeed, those who disbelieve in the verses of Allah will have a severe punishment. And Allah is Exalted in Might and Owner of Retribution. (4) Al Imran
3- Alif, Lam, Meem (1) A Book sent down to you, so let there not be in your breast any discomfort therefrom. To warn thereby and as a reminder to the believers (2) Al-A’raf
4- Alif Lam Ra. These are the verses of the Wise Book (1) Yunus.
5- Alif Lam Ra. A Book whose verses are perfected and then presented in detail from One Who is Wise and Acquainted. (1) Hud
6- Alif Lam Ra. These are the verses of the clear Book. (1) Indeed, We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur’an that you might understand. (2) Yusuf
7- Alif Lam Ra. These are the verses of the Book, and that which has been revealed to you from your Lord is the truth, but most of the people do not believe. (1) Ar-Ra’d
8- Alif Lam Ra. A Book which We have sent down to you so that you may bring mankind out of darknesses into light. The light, by permission of their Lord, to the path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy. (1) Ibrahim
9- Alif, Lam, Meem. These are the verses of the Book and a clear Qur’an. (1) Al-Hijr
10- Taha (1) We have not sent down the Qur’an to you to cause you distress. (2) But only as a reminder for whoever fears. (3) A revelation from He who created the earth and the high heavens. (4) Taha
11- Ta, Meem, Meem. (1) These are the verses of the clear Book. (2) Ash-Shu’ara.
12- Ta Seen. These are the verses of the Qur’an and a clear Book (1) A guidance and good tidings for the believers (2) An-Naml.
13- Ta Seen. (1) These are the verses of the clear Book (2) An-Qasas.
14- Alif, Lam, Meem. (1) These are the verses of the Wise Book (2) A guidance and mercy for the doers of good (3) Luqman.
15- Alif, Lam, Meem (1) The revelation of the Book, about which there is no doubt, is from the Lord of the worlds. (2) Or do they say, “He has invented it?” Rather, it is the truth from your Lord that you may warn a people to whom no warner has come before you that perhaps they will be guided. (3) As-Sajdah.
16- Ya-Seen (1) By the Qur’an full of wisdom. (2) Ya-Seen
. 17- Sad. By the Qur’an full of remembrance. (1) Sad.
18- Ha-Mim (1) The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Knowing. (2) Ghafir.
19- Ha Mim (1) A revelation from the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. (2) A Book whose verses are explained in detail - an Arabic Qur’an for a people who know. (3) So explained.
20- Ha Mim (1) Ain Qaf Qaf. (2) Thus does God reveal to you and to those before you - God is the Exalted in Might, the Wise. (3) Ash-Shura.
21- Ha Mim (1) By the clear Book (2) Indeed, We have made it an Arabic Qur’an that you might understand. (3) And indeed, it is in the Mother of the Book with Us, sublime and wise. (4) Az-Zukhruf.
22- Ha Mim (1) By the clear Book (2) Ad-Dukhan.

23- Ha Mim (1) The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Almighty, the Wise. (2) Al-Jathiyah. 24- Ha Mim (1) The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Almighty, the Wise. (2) Al-Ahqaf.
25- Qaf. By the Glorious Qur’an. (1) Qaf.
26- Kaf Ha Ya Ain Sad (1) A mention of the mercy of your Lord to His servant Zechariah (2) Maryam.
27- Alif Lam Meem (1) Do people think that they will be left to say, “We believe” and they will not be tested? (2) Al-Ankabut.
28- Alif, Lam, Meem (1) The Romans have been defeated (2) The Romans.
29- Nun. By the pen and what they inscribe (1) You are not, by the grace of your Lord, a madman (2) And indeed, for you is a reward uninterrupted (3) And indeed, you are of a great moral character (4) Nun.
The previous Quranic texts from (1 to 19) and from (21 to 25) refer explicitly to the Holy Quran.
As for the remaining five texts, they refer to unseen matters, as stated in the following Surahs:
- Maryam: Who mentioned the story of Zakariya and John, peace be upon them.
- Ar-Rum: The victory of the Romans, who are the People of the Book, over the pagans in a few years.
- Al-Ankabut: It asks those who believed in the Prophet and this Quran to be patient in the face of harm.
- As for Surat Al-Qalam, it explains the character of the Prophet, whose character was “the Qur’an.”