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This article analyses the supposed palindrome in the Quranic verse 74:3.
This article analyses the supposed palindrome in the Quranic verse 74:3.


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74:3
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وَرَبَّكَ فَكَبِّرْ
وَرَبَّكَ فَكَبِّرْ
And your Lord glorify
'''And your Lord glorify'''


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The verse 74:3 consists of two words:
The verse 74:3 consists of two words:
* وَرَبَّكَ - ''wa-rabba-ka'' - "and your lord" (literally and-lord-yours)
 
* فَكَبِّرْ - ''fa-kabbir'' - "glorify" (literally and/then-glorify)
*وَرَبَّكَ - ''wa-rabba-ka'' - "and your lord" (literally and-lord-yours)
*فَكَبِّرْ - ''fa-kabbir'' - "glorify" (literally and/then-glorify)


==The (non-existing) palindrome==
==The (non-existing) palindrome==
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==Real palindromes==
==Real palindromes==
There are many websites which contain long palindromic sentences. For example:
There are many websites which contain long palindromic sentences. For example:
* [https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/oddsends/palinsen.htm Palindromic sentences collected by Ralph Griswold.]


==Conclusions==
*[https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/oddsends/palinsen.htm Palindromic sentences collected by Ralph Griswold.]
* Non-Muslims can make long palindromic sentences
 
* Author of the Quran supposedly managed to make a short palindrome
==See also==
 
*[[Word Count Miracles in the Qur'an]]
 
External:
 
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqksuXlJqbU Nouman Ali Khan - "Palindrome Miracle in Quran "] (video)
 
[[Category:Miracles]]

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This article analyses the supposed palindrome in the Quranic verse 74:3.

Verse 74:3 in the Quran

In context:

74:1 يَا أَيُّهَا الْمُدَّثِّرُ O you who covers himself [with a garment],

74:2 قُمْ فَأَنذِرْ Arise and warn

74:3 وَرَبَّكَ فَكَبِّرْ And your Lord glorify

74:4 وَثِيَابَكَ فَطَهِّرْ And your clothing purify

74:5 وَالرُّجْزَ فَاهْجُرْ And uncleanliness avoid


The verse 74:3 consists of two words:

  • وَرَبَّكَ - wa-rabba-ka - "and your lord" (literally and-lord-yours)
  • فَكَبِّرْ - fa-kabbir - "glorify" (literally and/then-glorify)

The (non-existing) palindrome

A palindrome is a text that is spelled exactly the same when read backwards. For example the word "rotator":

r o t a t o r (spelled forwards)

r o t a t o r (spelled backwards)


The word rotator

Here is the Arabic text spelled forward and backwards:

وَرَبَّكَ فَكَبِّرْ

رِبَّكَفَ كَبَّرَو

w a r a b b a k a f a k a b b i r (spelled forwards)

r i b b a k a f a k a b b a r a w (spelled backwards)


The verse is NOT a palindrome.

Apologetic mental gymnastics

Dropping the first letter

The "reason" is that maybe in this verse و (wa) doesn't mean "and" and it is only an indicator for starting a sentence. Even if this was true, it would still not be a palindrome:

r a b b a k a f a k a b b i r (spelled forwards)

r i b b a k a f a k a b b a r (spelled backwards)


a non-palindrome

This failed on the second letter.

Besides that, most translators translate the و as "and" and the translation "and" fits into the context of the verse.

Dropping diacritics

The "problematic" vowels a and i are indicated by diacritics. If we now, after deleting the letter و ignored the diacritics we would have only the Arabic letters:

ربك فكبر

ر ب ك ف ك ب ر

r b k f k b r


But this is no longer a word. Every Arabic word has diacritics and when they are not written the reader is supposed to know them by heart.

And this is the supposed "miraculous" palindrome. Three letters r-b-k around f. So it's similar to the example "rotator" except that the word rotator is a real palindrome and doesn't require mental gymnastics.

Real palindromes

There are many websites which contain long palindromic sentences. For example:

See also

External: