The Qur ' an's account has emphasized Moses ' mission to invite the Pharaoh to accept God's divine message as well as give salvation to the Israelites.

Islamic commentators on the Qur ' an have emphasized that pre-Islamic Arabic idolatry made a number of godlings ( most memorably the three goddesses al-Manāt, al-Lāt and ʻUzzā ) equal associates of Allah ( as the Qur ' an discusses in the 53rd surat ) and the word mushrikūn ( singular: mushrik ) is often translated into English as " polytheists ".

* Kenneth Cragg: It can be emphasized that the Qur ' anic injunctions that were urgent in the original pagan setting of the first Muslims, led them to reach a true monotheism.

The practice is sanctioned in the Qur ' an by Surah 48: 10: " Verily, those who give thee their allegiance, they give it but to Allah Himself ".

From that work we learn that the higher education of the youth of Baghdad consisted principally in a minute and careful study of the rules and principles of grammar, and in their committing to memory the whole of the Qur ' an, a treatise or two on philology and jurisprudence, and the choicest Arabic poetry.

*" they furnish evidence for Holy Scriptures, since the Qur ' an mentions them and their people ;"

However, in adherence to the ideas of Arab Nationalism, the Arab countries prefer to give preference to the Literary Arabic which is common to all of them, conduct much of their political, cultural and religious life in it ( adherence to Islam ), and refrain from declaring each country's specific variety to be a separate language, because Literary Arabic is the liturgical language of Islam and the language of the Islamic sacred book, the Qur ' an.

In the Qur ' an, it is stated that ( 2: 62 ): " Surely, those who believe, those who are Muslims, Jewish, the Christians, and the Sabians ; anyone who ( 1 ) believes in GOD, and ( 2 ) believes in the Last Day, and ( 3 ) leads a righteous life, will receive their recompense from their Lord.

Other passages, however, conflict with the teachings of the Qur ' an — as, for instance, in the account of the Nativity, where Mary is said to have given birth to Jesus without pain or as in Jesus's ministry, where he permits the drinking of wine and enjoins monogamy — though the Qur ' an acknowledges each prophet had a set of their own laws that might differ in some aspects from each other.

The Qur ' anic term for their religious doctrine is shirk ( i. e., " sharing "); it describes them as mushrikin ( i. e., those who believe in God, but " share " other Gods in divinity ).

Elsewhere in the Qur ' an, Isaac is mentioned in lists: Joseph follows the religion of his forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ( XII: 38 ) and speaks of God's favor to them ( XII: 6 ); Jacob's sons all testify their faith and promise to worship the God that their forefathers, " Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac ", worshiped ( II: 127 ); and the Qur ' an commands Muslims to believe in the revelations that were given to " Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Patriarchs " ( II: 136 ; III: 84 ).

Given that the Qur ' an is vague regarding the punishment of homosexual sodomy, Islamic jurists turned to the collections of the hadith and seerah ( accounts of Muhammad's life ) to support their argument for Hudud punishment ; these are perfectly clear but particularly harsh.

It is possible that Jahangir might have seen these images in their Islamic persona, as the Qur ' an features such creatures, yet depiction of living things was haraam ( forbidden ), so the images could well have been created by a Christian artist.

Birr is also used by the Qur ' an in describing the love and kindness that children must show to their parents.

The Qur ' an describes many prophets and messengers as well as their respective followers as Muslim: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses and Jesus and his apostles are all considered to be Muslims in the Qur ' an.

The Saudi government supports their position using Sura 9: 28 from the Qur ' an:

And yet, the Qur ' an affirms human responsibility, saying for example: " Allah changeth not the condition of a people until they change what is in their hearts ".

The Qur ' an also speaks of Jesus's disciples but does not mention their names, instead referring to them as " helpers to the work of God ".

Or in Qur ' anic wording: " The people of the Book know this as they know their own sons ; but some of them conceal the truth which they themselves know.

The Nizaris ' symbolic interpretation of the Qur ' anic description of Paradise serves as evidence against the possibility of such an exotic garden used as motivation for the devotees to carry out their armed missions.

William Montgomery Watt and Alfred Guillaume claim that stories of the event were true based upon the implausibility of Muslims fabricating a story so unflattering to their prophet: " Muhammad must have publicly recited the satanic verses as part of the Qur ' ān ; it is unthinkable that the story could have been invented by Muslims, or foisted upon them by non-Muslims.

The Qur ' an states that the sacrifice has nothing to do with the blood and gore ( Qur ' an 22: 37: " It is not their meat nor their blood that reaches God.

Approximately 1, 200 verses of the Qur ' an speak of life after death and the Day of Resurrection, as do a vast number of sayings related from Muhammad and his successors.

The Qur ' an identifies a number of men as " Prophets of Islam " (; pl.

21257 in Musnad Ibn Hanbal ) mentions that there were 124, 000 of them in total throughout history ( with other traditions placing the number of Prophets at 224, 000 while other scholars holding that there is even a greater number in the history of mankind, and God alone knows ), and the Qur ' an says that God has sent a prophet to every group of people throughout time, and that Muhammad is the last of the prophets, sent for the whole of humankind.

The Satanic Verses are a small number of apparently pagan verses that were alleged to have been temporarily included in the Qur ' an by the Islamic prophet Muhammad, only to be later removed.

The institution of waqf is not mentioned in the Qur ' an, but is rather derived from a number of hadith ( traditions of Muhammad ).

A common myth persists that the number of ayat in the Qur ' an is 6, 666.

The party promised to end the ban on females wearing the hijab at government institutions ( most pertinent at universities and a very contentious issue in Turkish politics ), the opening of Qur ' an schools and its mandatory teaching and a number of other measures that would appeal to Muslims.

His choice items included copies of the Qur ' an a number of astronomical instruments and treatises, and a number of Ismaili works.

* The number of surat al-Isra in the Qur ' an.

* The number of angels guarding Hell (" Hellfire ") (" Saqar ") according to the Qur ' an: " Over it is nineteen " ( 74: 30 ).

* Some people have claimed that patterns of the number 19 are present an unusual number of times in the Qur ' an.

The houri are mentioned in several places in the Qur ’ an, although in plural no specifics are given as to the number of houries available.

Alī's cousin and a renowned Islamic jurist, Abdullah ibn Abbas, pointed out the grave theological errors made by the Kharijites in quoting the Qur ' an, and managed to persuade a number of Kharijites to return to Alī based on their misinterpretations.

The Qur ' an does not give their exact number ; rather, it mentions that some people would say that they were three, others would say five and some would say seven, in addition to one dog, and that they slept for 300 years, plus 9, which could mean 300 solar years or 309 lunar years ( 300 solar years are equal to 309 lunar years ).

In 1974, he claimed that he had discovered a mathematical code in the text of the Qur ' an involving the number 19.

* The number of surat al-Fil in the Qur ' an.

* The number of surat Quraysh in the Qur ' an.

* The number of surat al-Ikhlas in the Qur ' an

The Báb himself stated they exceeded five hundred thousand verses in length ; the Qur ' an, in contrast, is 6300 verses in length.

Chapters in the Qur ' an, called suras in Arabic, are made up of several ayat, although suras vary greatly in length, ranging from 3 to 286 ayat.

Not only is the Qur ' an the first work of any significant length written in the language it also has a far more complicated structure than the earlier literary works with its 114 suras ( chapters ) which contain 6, 236 ayat ( verses ).

The Christian legend is much more detailed than the Qur ' an's version and elaborates at length about the cosmology of the Earth that is implied by the story:

Manzil (, plural manāzil ) is the word for one of seven parts of roughly equal length into which the Qur ' an is divided for the purpose of reciting the entire text in one week.

A juz ' (, plural اجزاء ajza ', literally means " part ") is one of thirty parts of roughly equal length into which the Qur ' an is sometimes divided.

Because of subject matter, length, style, and placement in the Qur ' an, this sura is often coupled with Sura Al-Inshirah.

Because of subject matter, length, style, and placement in the Qur ' an, this sura is often coupled with Sura ad-Dhuha.

The Book of Revelation contains five chapters, arranged like the surahs of the Qur ' an, in order of decreasing length.