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Az-Zumar (Arabic: الزمر, ’az-zumar; meaning: "The Troops, The Throngs") is the 39th chapter of the Qur'an, the central religious text of Islam. It contains 75 verses ( ayat ). This surah derives its name from the Arabic word zumar (troops) that occurs in verses 71 and 73.
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39: Az-Zumar: ٱلزُّمَر az-Zumar: The Crowds, The Troops, Throngs: 75 (8) Makkah: 59: 80: v. 71, 73 [6] The evidence of the existence and oneness of God in all manifestations of nature. [6] God forgives all sins to him who repents before his death. [6] Allegories of the Last Hour and the Day of Judgment. [6] 23-24 40 Ghafir (Al-Muʼmin ...
Muslims hold the Quran, as it was revealed to Muhammad, to be God's final revelation to mankind, and therefore a completion and confirmation of previous scriptures, such as the Bible. [1] Despite the primacy that Muslims place upon the Quran in this context, belief in the validity of earlier Abrahamic scriptures is one of the six Islamic ...
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[4] In early sources it may refer to Ancient South Arabian writing on palm leaves. [ 2 ] Much of Western scholarship sees the word zabūr in the sense "psalter" as being a conflation of Arabic zabūr , "writing", with the Hebrew word for "psalm", mizmōr ( Hebrew : מִזְמוֹר ) or its Aramaic equivalent mazmūrā ( Syriac : ܡܙܡܘܪܐ ).
Originally the Concept of Justice within the Qur’an was a broad term that applied to the individual. Over time, Islamic thinkers thought to unify political, legal and social justice which made Justice a major interpretive theme within the Qur'an. Justice can be seen as the exercise of reason and free will or the practice of judgment and responsibility.
Modern scholarship has long posited an origin for the sabab al-nuzūl based largely on its function within exegesis. William Montgomery Watt, for example, stressed the narratological significance of these types of reports: "The Quranic allusions had to be elaborated into complete stories and the background filled in if the main ideas were to be impressed on the minds of simple men."