Page 344 - General Knowledge from the Qur'an

342 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FROM THE QUR'AN

We have given you the Seven Oft-repeated and the Magnificent
Qur'an. (Surat al-Hijr, 87)
We created above you seven levels and We were not unaware of the
creation. (Surat al-Muminun, 17)
Allah subjected them to it for seven whole nights and eight whole
days without a break. You could see the people flattened in their
homes just like the hollow stumps of uprooted palms. (Surat al-Haqqa,
7)

THE NUMBER 12
Appears a total of 4 times
And when Musa was looking for water for his people, We said,
'Strike the rock with your staff.' Then twelve fountains gushed out
from it and all the people knew their drinking place. 'Eat and drink of
Allah's provision and do not go about the earth corrupting it.' (Surat
al-Baqara, 60)
We divided them up into twelve tribes – communities. We revealed
to Musa, when his people asked him for water: 'Strike the rock with
your staff.' Twelve fountains flowed out from it and all the people
knew their drinking place... (Surat al-A'raf, 160)
Allah made a covenant with the tribe of Israel and We raised up
twelve leaders from among them. Allah said, 'I am with you. If you
perform prayer and pay the welfare tax, and believe in My Messengers
and respect and support them, and make a generous loan to Allah, I
will erase your wrong actions from you and admit you into Gardens
with rivers flowing under them. Any of you who disbelieve after that
have gone astray from the right way.' (Surat al-Ma'ida, 12)
There have been twelve months with Allah in the Book of Allah,
from the day He first created the heavens and earth. Four of them are
forbidden. That is the True Religion. So do not wrong one another dur-
ing them. However, fight the idolaters totally just as they fight you to-
tally, and know that Allah is with those who guard against evil. (Surat
at-Tawba, 36)