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*'''A sign of the miracle of the Qur'an:''' one of the oldest and best-known interpretations of the disjoined letters is that God has opened twenty nine suras of the Qur'an with these letters to imply that the Qur'an is made up of the same letters with which other Arabs talk, and if they believe that the Qur'an is not a miracle, then they should bring something like the Qur'an with these same letters.<ref>Suyūtī,''Al-Itqān fī ʿalūm al-Qurān'', vol. 1, p. 665.</ref> The view appears in some Shiite texts as well.<ref>''Al-Tafsīr al-mansūb ila al-īmam al-Ḥasan b. ʿAli al-ʿAskarī (a)'', p. 62; Majlisī, ''Biḥār al-anwār'', vol. 89, p. 377.</ref> It was favored by [[Sayyid Qutb]], a Sunni scholar.<ref>Sayyid Quṭb ,''Fī Ẓilāl al-Qurʾān'', vol. 1, p. 38. </ref> | *'''A sign of the miracle of the Qur'an:''' one of the oldest and best-known interpretations of the disjoined letters is that God has opened twenty nine suras of the Qur'an with these letters to imply that the Qur'an is made up of the same letters with which other Arabs talk, and if they believe that the Qur'an is not a miracle, then they should bring something like the Qur'an with these same letters.<ref>Suyūtī,''Al-Itqān fī ʿalūm al-Qurān'', vol. 1, p. 665.</ref> The view appears in some Shiite texts as well.<ref>''Al-Tafsīr al-mansūb ila al-īmam al-Ḥasan b. ʿAli al-ʿAskarī (a)'', p. 62; Majlisī, ''Biḥār al-anwār'', vol. 89, p. 377.</ref> It was favored by [[Sayyid Qutb]], a Sunni scholar.<ref>Sayyid Quṭb ,''Fī Ẓilāl al-Qurʾān'', vol. 1, p. 38. </ref> | ||
*'''God's Greatest Name:''' according to Quranic exegetes of the early years of Islam, [[Ibn Mas'ud]] and Ibn 'Abbas, these letters are God's Greatest Name. [[Sa'id b. Jubayr]] believed that the disjoined letters are God's names which are disjoined. The view is attributed to some [[Imams of the Shia]] as well. | *'''God's Greatest Name:''' according to Quranic exegetes of the early years of Islam, [[Ibn Mas'ud]]<ref>Suyūtī, ''Al-Durr Al-manthūr'', vol. 1, p. 57.</ref> and Ibn 'Abbas,<ref>Ṭabarī,''Jāmiʾ al-bayān ʿan taʾwīl āyāt al-Qurʾān'', vol. 1, p. 206, under the sura 2, verse 1.</ref> these letters are God's Greatest Name.<ref>Suyūtī,''Al-Itqān fī ʿalūm al-Qurān'', vol. 3, p. 27. </ref> [[Sa'id b. Jubayr]] believed that the disjoined letters are God's names which are disjoined.<ref>Ṭabarī,''Jāmiʾ al-bayān ʿan taʾwīl āyāt al-Qurʾān'', vol. 1, p. 207, under the sura 2, verse 1.</ref> The view is attributed to some [[Imams of the Shia]] as well.<ref>Majlisī, ''Biḥār al-anwār'', vol. 89, p. 375.</ref> | ||
*'''Alerting devices:''' according to some people, each of the disjoined letters function as alerting devices (just like "hey" or "look" in English). Thus, since [[polytheist]]s would turn away from the Qur'an and not listen to it or make noises when the Qur'an was recited, God opened certain suras with disjoined letters to attract their attentions, alert them, make them silent, and motivate them to listen to the Qur'an. It was objected why ordinary alerting devices in Arabic (such as "ala" or "ama") were not used, instead. Proponents of the view respond to the objection by saying that the Qur'an is a word dissimilar to human words. Thus, it opened with unordinary alerting devices to make the effect more profound. | *'''Alerting devices:''' according to some people, each of the disjoined letters function as alerting devices (just like "hey" or "look" in English). Thus, since [[polytheist]]s would turn away from the Qur'an and not listen to it or make noises when the Qur'an was recited, God opened certain suras with disjoined letters to attract their attentions, alert them, make them silent, and motivate them to listen to the Qur'an. It was objected why ordinary alerting devices in Arabic (such as "ala" or "ama") were not used, instead. Proponents of the view respond to the objection by saying that the Qur'an is a word dissimilar to human words. Thus, it opened with unordinary alerting devices to make the effect more profound. | ||