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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 ...
1 mina = 60 shekels (later 100 zuz) 1 talent = 60 mina; In the Israelite system, the ratio of the giru to the shekel was altered, and the talent, mina, and giru, later went by the names kikkar (ככר), litra, and gerah (גרה), respectively; litra being the Greek form of the Latin libra, meaning pound. [9] [40] The Israelite system was thus ...
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These are the books of the King James Version of the Bible along with the names and numbers given them in the Douay Rheims Bible and Latin Vulgate. This list is a complement to the list in Books of the Latin Vulgate. It is an aid to finding cross references between two longstanding standards of biblical literature.
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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."