Page 345 - Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

Harun Yahya

The Superior Nature of the Rhyming Scheme in the Qur'an
Another of the elements which make the Qur'an inimitable stems
from its literary structure. Despite being in Arabic, the Qur'an bears no

similarity to the forms used in Arabic literature.
The rhyming system in the Qur'an is known as "rhymed prose"
and linguists describe the use of this rhyme in the Qur'an as a miracle.
In his book Science Miracles, a work prepared to demonstrate that the
Qur'an is a linguistic miracle, the well-known British scientist Professor
Adel M. A. Abbas carried out a wide-ranging study of the letters and
rhyming scheme used in the Qur'an by means of graphics and dia-
grams. Some rather striking facts were established in this book with
regard to the rhyming system in the Qur'an.
As we know, 29 Suras in the Qur'an begin with one or more sym-
bolic letters. These letters are known as "muqatta`ah-letters" or "initial
letters." Fourteen of the 29 letters in Arabic comprise these initial letters:
Qaf, Sad, Ta, Ha, Ya, Sin, Alif, Lam, Mim, Kaf, 'Ayn, Nun, Ra, Ha.
Of these letters, when we look at the use of the letter "Nun" in
Surat al-Qalam we see rhyming
with the letter "Nun" in 88.8% of
the verses. 84.6% of Surat ash-
Shu'ara', 90.32% of Surat an-

Naml and 92.05% of Surat al-
Qasas are rhymed with "Nun."
When applying these stud-
ies to the whole Qur'an, 50.08% is
rhymed with the letter "Nun." To
put it another way, more than

Prof. Adel M. A. Abbas' book,
Science Miracles

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