Zakah and blessing word count in the Qur'an: Difference between revisions

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|26||18:81||زَكَوٰةً||purity||noun
|26||18:81||زَكَوٰةً||'''purity'''||noun
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|27||19:13||وَزَكَوٰةً||and purity||noun
|27||19:13||وَزَكَوٰةً||'''and purity'''||noun
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So the word ''zakah'' does not appear 32 times, as some apologists like to claim, but it appears only 30 times. This word count includes the forms with prefixes, which were often excluded in other apologetic word counts, so if we used a different counting method, than there is even less occurrences.
So the word ''zakah'' does not appear 32 times, as some apologists like to claim, but it appears only '''30 times'''. This word count includes the forms with prefixes, which were often excluded in other apologetic word counts, so if we used that counting method, than there is even less occurrences.
 
Apologists probably simply searched for the sequence of Arabic letters زكوة (or زكاة in the Simple Script) and got 32 results, but did not realize that in 2 of those occurrences the word means something else:
* 18:81 "So we desired that their Lord might give them in his place one better than him in '''purity''' (زَكَوٰةً, ''zakatan'') and nearer to having compassion."
* 19:13 "And tenderness from Us '''and purity''' (وَزَكَوٰةً, ''wa-zakatan''), and he was one who guarded (against evil),"


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