Man and woman word count in the Qur'an: Difference between revisions

Man and woman word count in the Qur'an (view source)

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 ** This word count includes the controversial word (رَجُلًا, rajulan) from the verse 7:155, which is in the singular form, but is clearly talking about ''seventy men'' (سَبْعِينَ رَجُلًا, sabAAeena rajulan). Wouldn't it be more logical to count it as plural?
 ** The number 24 doesn't signify anything and seems to be a product of coincidence. Wouldn't Allah make the number more interesting if he wanted to do a numerical miracle?
-** Equality in word count does not imply equality under law. If we take the sentence "''Men should have more rights than women.''", the word count for both is equal, but clearly, it doesn't mean that the message of the text is that men and women are equal, or that they have the same social value.
+** Equality in word count does not imply equality under law.
+***If we take the sentence "''Men should have more rights than women.''", the word count for both is equal, but clearly, it doesn't mean that the message of the text is that men and women are equal, or that they have the same social value.
 * Miracle two: "''The word man and woman are both mentioned 23 times, which is exactly the number of chromosomes.''"
 ** The word count for singular "man" can be 23 (if we don't count the controversial word in the verse 7:155, as mentioned earlier), but the word count for singular "woman" is 24.