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The Scientific Miracles of the Qur'an 337

"Love" (al-mahabbah) and "obedience" (al-ta'ah) also appear the
same number of times: 83.
The word "facility, relief" (al-yisr) appears exactly three times
more often than the word "difficulty" (al-'usr).
"Hardship" (al-shiddah) and "patience" (al-sabr) both appear 115
times.
The words "man" and "woman" are also employed equally: 23
times.
"Sun" (shams) and "light" (nur) both appear 33 times in the
Qur'an.
"Human being" is used 65 times: the sum of the number of refer-
ences to the stages of man's creation is the same: i.e.
Soil (turab) 17
Drop of Sperm (nutfah) 12
Embryo ('alaq) 6
A half formed lump of flesh (mudghah) 3
Bone ('idham) 15
Flesh (lahm) 12
TOTAL 65

The word "salawat" appear five times in the Qur'an, and Allah has
commanded man to perform the salat five times a day.
The word "land" appears 13 times in the qur'an, and the word
"sea" 32 times, giving a total of 45 references. If we divide that number
by that of the number of references to the land we arrive at the figure
28.8888889%. The number of total references to land and sea, 45, di-
vided by the number of refernces to the sea in the qur'an, 32, is
71.111111%. These figures represent the exact proportions of land and
sea on the earth today.