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Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

half the verses in the Qur'an end with the letter "Nun." In no literary
work of comparable length has it been possible to rhyme with a single
sound in more than half the text. This applies to all languages, not just
to Arabic.
Distribution of verses ending with the letter "Nun" from those

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2 al-Baqara 193
3 al 'Imran 121
7 al-A'raf 193
10 Yunus 98
11 Hud 56
12 Yusuf 93
13 ar-Ra'd 5
14 Ibrahim 6
15 al-Hijr 81
19 Maryam 5
20 Ta Ha -
26 ash-Shu'ara' 192
27 an-Naml 84
28 al-Qasas 81
29 al-'Ankabut 59
30 ar-Rum 54
31 Luqman 7
32 as-Sajda 27
36 Ya Sin 71
38 Sâd 18
40 Ghafir 32
41 Fussilat 30
42 ash-Shura 6
43 az-Zukhruf 78
44 ad-Dukhan 44
45 al-Ghashiyya 30
46 al-Ahqaf 26
50 Qaf -
68 al-Qalam 42
The above table shows the distribution of verses ending with the letter "Nun" in
those Suras beginning with initial (symbolic) letters.
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