The Foreign Non-Arabic Words of The Quran
The Foreign Non-Arabic Words of The Quran
The Foreign Non-Arabic Words of The Quran
The author
: Father Zakaria Boutros
The publisher: www.fatherzakaria.com
It was said that the quran was written is a clear Arabic tongue.
"We have sent it down as an Arabic Quran" Joseph chapter (Surat Yusuf) 2
Actually there are 9 quran verses saying that the quran was written is a clear Arabic
tongue.
As in the chapters of: Joseph (Surat Yusuf), Ta-Ha (Surat Ta-Ha), the bees (Surat AnNahl), The Poets (Surat Ash-Shu'ara'), distinguished (Surat Fussilat), Consultation (Surat
Ash-Shura), The Gold Adornments (Surat Az-Zukhruf), The Curved Sand-hills (Surat AlAhqaf) and The Groups, (Surat Az-Zumar)
All The annotators are saying that "a clear Arabic tongue" means the most fluent Arabic
tongue
It was found that the quran contained 275 non-Arabic words, intruded into the quran from
foreign languages present at that time
The Islamic encyclopedia, part 26, and page 8222, 8223 said:" the annotators found no
embarrassment to commit that there are many non- Arabic words intruded into the quran
text from languages as: Hebrew, Indian, Persian, Ethiopian, Barbarian, Romanian, Coptic,
Greek, and Syrian"
In "the relic" book narrated Ibn Abbas:" they were showing a great interest in the origin
of those words and their meanings"
Al-Syouty,in his book "the perfection in quran' sciences" wrote a special chapter for
those big number of foreign non-Arabic words saying that there are 275 non Arabic
words in the quran, and those words can't be connected by any mean to the Arabic
language
Al- Motawakely also made a special study on those words
Another study was made by Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ibiary in his book "history making of the
quran" Ta'rikh Al-Quran" published in Cairo in 1981 by the house of Arabic book
Of these words:
- "Tafaq'a " is a Romanian word means" intended to do", as in The Heights chapter
(Surat Al-A'raf) 22
- "Al-toar "is a Syrian word means "the mountain", as in the Cow chapter (Surat AlBaqarah) 63
- "Al-Raq'im " is a Romanian word means "the tablet" as in The Cave chapter (Surat AlKahf) 9
- "Ta-Ha " is a Hebrew word as in Ta-Ha chapter