Surah al-A‘raf, 142
Thirty (30) Nights and Ten (10) Nights Being Set Aside For the Prophet Moses (as)
◉ Number of syllables from "thalatheena laylatan," meaning 30 nights," to the end of the clause: 30.
۞ وَوَٰعَدْنَا مُوسَىٰ ثَلَٰثِينَ لَيْلَةًۭ وَأَتْمَمْنَٰهَا بِعَشْرٍۢ فَتَمَّ مِيقَٰتُ رَبِّهِۦٓ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةًۭ ۚ وَقَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِأَخِيهِ هَٰرُونَ ٱخْلُفْنِى فِى قَوْمِى وَأَصْلِحْ وَلَا تَتَّبِعْ سَبِيلَ ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ ١٤٢
We set aside thirty nights for Moses and then completed them with ten, so the appointed time of his Lord was forty nights in all. Musa said to his brother Harun, 'Be my khalif among my people. Keep order and do not follow the way of the corrupters.'
◉ Number of syllables from "thalatheena laylatan," meaning 30 nights," to the end of the clause: 30.1
◉ Number of syllables used after "thalatheena laylatan " (30 nights) to the end of the verse: 30.2
◉ Number of syllables from the word "thalatheena" (30) to the end of the clause: 30.3
◉ Number of time the muqatt'at letters [unique combinations of letters that begin a number of Surah in the Qur'an] in the Surah (alif, lam, mim, sad) are used in the verse from the word "thalatheena " (30) to the end of the verse: 30.4
◉ Number of dotted letters up to the word "Aashr" (10): 10.
◉ Number of undotted letters from the word "Aashr" (10) to the end of the clause: 10.
◉ The word "Aashr" (10) appears 10 pages from the end in Surat al-A'raf.
◉ The letters "alif, lam, mim and sad," the muqatt'at letters in the Surah, are used 10 times before the word "Aashr" (10).5
◉ 10 types of letter are used in the term "waatmamnaha biAAashrin" meaning "and then completed them with ten."6
Footnotes
- İbare sonunda durarak. ↩
- Elif: 11, lam: 11, mim: 7, sad: 1, lamelif: 2 ↩
- Elif: 4, lam: 3, mim: 3, sad: 0 ↩
- Vav, elif, te, mim, nun,he, be, ayn, şın, ra ↩
- Elif: 2, se: 1, nun:2, te: 2, ye: 1, ayn: 2, şın: 1, ra: 1 ↩
- Elif, se, nun, te, ye, ayn, şın, ra, sin, be, tı, mim ↩
