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<metadesc>This article contains a list of all the occurrences of the word "day" (يوم - transliterated as "yawm") in all its forms in the Qur'an. It also counts the total number of occurrences, number of occurrences in singular/plural/dual separately and the number of occurrences, where the word consists only of the three Arabic letters يوم.</metadesc> | <metadesc>This article contains a list of all the occurrences of the word "day" (يوم - transliterated as "yawm") in all its forms in the Qur'an. It also counts the total number of occurrences, number of occurrences in singular/plural/dual separately and the number of occurrences, where the word consists only of the three Arabic letters يوم.</metadesc> | ||
This article contains a list of all the occurrences of the word "day" (يوم - transliterated as "yawm") in all its forms in the Qur'an. It also counts the total number of occurrences, number of occurrences in singular/plural/dual separately and the number of occurrences, where the word consists only of the three arabic letters يوم (regardless of diacritics). The purpose is to refute the apologist argument, that this word appears 365 times in the Qur'an, just like there are 365 days in the non-islamic Gregorian calendar, which "cannot be a coincidence" (although it could be a coincidence even if it was true) | This article contains a list of all the occurrences of the word "day" (يوم - transliterated as "yawm") in all its forms in the Qur'an. It also counts the total number of occurrences, number of occurrences in singular/plural/dual separately and the number of occurrences, where the word consists only of the three arabic letters يوم (regardless of diacritics). The purpose is to refute the apologist argument, that this word appears 365 times in the Qur'an, just like there are 365 days in the non-islamic Gregorian calendar, which "cannot be a coincidence" (although it could be a coincidence even if it was true). | ||
== List == | == List == | ||
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Since apologists are counting complicated forms like ''wa-bil-yawmi'', we cannot say that they count only the "simple" or "basic" forms. And by counting words with prefixes, they are inconsistent by not counting words with suffixes, like ''yawmi-kum''. Their choice of grammatical forms counted is very arbitrary. They exclude 20 (including 11 singular) forms out of 38. If they counted all forms, they wouldn't get 365, if they counted only singular forms, they wouldn't get to 365. Since there are so many ways for arbitrary selection from 38 numbers, it is not a miracle that one of those selections turned out to have an interesting sum. | Since apologists are counting complicated forms like ''wa-bil-yawmi'', we cannot say that they count only the "simple" or "basic" forms. And by counting words with prefixes, they are inconsistent by not counting words with suffixes, like ''yawmi-kum''. Their choice of grammatical forms counted is very arbitrary. They exclude 20 (including 11 singular) forms out of 38. If they counted all forms, they wouldn't get 365, if they counted only singular forms, they wouldn't get to 365. Since there are so many ways for arbitrary selection from 38 numbers, it is not a miracle that one of those selections turned out to have an interesting sum. | ||
==The completely ignored نهار (''nahaar'')== | |||
''Yawm'' (يوم) is not the only Arabic word used in the Quran for "day". The word ''nahaar'' (نهار) which also means "day" occurs 57 times in the Quran <ref>http://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=nhr</ref>. Apologists completely ignore this word when counting occurrences of "day". | |||
== Conclusions == | == Conclusions == | ||
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* The word يوم in its basic form (consisting only of the trilateral root ي - و - م (ya - waw - mim) without any suffix/prefix letters and while ignoring the differences in diacritics) appears 217 times in the Qur'an. | * The word يوم in its basic form (consisting only of the trilateral root ي - و - م (ya - waw - mim) without any suffix/prefix letters and while ignoring the differences in diacritics) appears 217 times in the Qur'an. | ||
* To arrive at 365 occurrences, apologists exclude 3 dual and 27 plural forms, 10 singular occurrences with [[Arabic pronouns and the Quran|suffixed possessive pronouns]] and 70 forms of the word يومئذ (yawma-ithin, which means "that day"), but allow 91 words with prefixes بِ (bi), وَ (wa), فَ (fa) or لِ (li). They also allow 75 occurrences with the ال (al) prefix, although اليوم (''al-yawm'') often means "today". | * To arrive at 365 occurrences, apologists exclude 3 dual and 27 plural forms, 10 singular occurrences with [[Arabic pronouns and the Quran|suffixed possessive pronouns]] and 70 forms of the word يومئذ (yawma-ithin, which means "that day"), but allow 91 words with prefixes بِ (bi), وَ (wa), فَ (fa) or لِ (li). They also allow 75 occurrences with the ال (al) prefix, although اليوم (''al-yawm'') often means "today". | ||
* The Arabic word ''nahaar'' (نهار), which also means "day", is completely ignored by apologists. If we added its 57 occurrences to the 475 occurrences of yawm (يوم), that would be 532 occurrences of "day". | |||
=== Other === | === Other === | ||
* Even if the word count was real and it was a miracle and it proved supernatural origin, it doesn't necessarily mean that the supernatural origin is god. The supernatural author could also have been any other supernatural being like Satan. | |||
* Even if the word يوم appeared 365 times in its basic form, these words would not be the same because there are still differences in diacritics, which change the meaning and pronunciation (يَوْمَ / يَوْمٍ / يَوْمِ / يَوْمٌ / يَوْمُ .. - yawma / yawmin / yawmi / yawmun / yawmu ..). | * Even if the word يوم appeared 365 times in its basic form, these words would not be the same because there are still differences in diacritics, which change the meaning and pronunciation (يَوْمَ / يَوْمٍ / يَوْمِ / يَوْمٌ / يَوْمُ .. - yawma / yawmin / yawmi / yawmun / yawmu ..). | ||
* Many times the word "day" refers to the Day of Resurrection and its length is not 1 day, but 50 000 years <ref>"To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years." - Quran 70:4</ref> | * Many times the word "day" refers to the Day of Resurrection and its length is not 1 day, but 50 000 years <ref>"To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years." - Quran 70:4</ref> | ||