Message #16924

[Ruhi_Rose]

(15:87) وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَاكَ سَبْعًا مِنَ الْمَثَانِي وَالْقُرْآنَ الْعَظِيمَ

"And We have certainly given you, [O Muhammad], seven of the often repeated [verses] and the great Qur'an."

How much I love this!  Only someone focused on useless arguments would deny "saban" means anything else other than "seven" for the purpose of distracting people from the basic guidance stated by the Divine Power in the Fathiha. 

Many thanks Sis Zeynab for the very nice evaluation .. and thanks to Sis Heba for exposing that babbler with ulterior motives. 

Something else I want to mention.  The 7 Verses of Chapter 1 - Surah Fathiha - also makes another point clear.  Guess what?  The Quranic line "BismAllah Ar Rehman Ar Raheem" is a part of every Surah (except Surah At-Taubah) that needs to be counted to determine the total number of Verses of each Surah.  But while compiling and printing the Quran, those responsible for the compilation and printing obviously decided to start counting the Verses after "BismAllah ...."    Fathiha is the only Surah where counting of the number of Verses begins from "BismAllah  .."   That means, the 7 Verses include "BismAllah ...."    And since The Almighty refers to Fathiha (in Surah Al-Hijr) as "saban minal mathani" that indicates "BismAllah" must be counted in every Surah; it definitely proves that inclusion of "BismAllah ..." as the first Verse of every Surah is the correct way to proceed.   So, for instance, Surah Al-Baqrah is listed as having a total of 286 Verses.  This excludes the starting "BismAllah ..."   Thus, it actually has 287 Verses including "BismAllah .."