Monthly Archives: November 2024

Repeated Phrases in Verses

There is an interesting anecdote about a person who claimed to have memorized the entire Qur’an. In order to validate his claim, a panel of judges selected random excerpts from the holy book and asked him to identify, from memory, which verses the excerpts came from. As a particularly tricky challenge, one judge brought forth the following quote:

فِيهِ فِيهِ

How unusual! There are no nouns or verbs at all here (the phrase literally translates to “in it in it”) so there are no contextual clues to help out with the identification.

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Introduction

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

The purpose of this blog is to put together, in one place, the various interesting things I discover, reflect upon, or produce.

There are far too many fascinating things I come across that I would rather not get lost or forgotten, so creating a compilation seemed natural; an online repository like a blog has not only the personal advantages of easy cloud access and self-organizing features, but also allows public access to my collection as well. You’re welcome!

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