Ayah (
, plural
Ayat ) is the
ArabicArabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and the Neo-Aramaic languages. In terms of speakers, the Arabic macrolanguage is the largest member of the Semitic language family. It is spoken by more than 280 million people as...
word for
signAn omen is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change. Omens may be considered "good" or "bad", but the term is more often used in a foreboding sense, as with the word "ominous".-In ancient Rome:Ancient Roman religion employed two distinct types of...
or
miracleA miracle is a perceptible interruption of the laws of nature, such that can be attempted to be explained by divine intervention, and is sometimes associated with a miracle worker. Many folktales, religious texts, and people claim various events they refer to as "miraculous". People in different...
, cognate with Hebrew
ot , means sign. The word usually refers to each one of the 6236 verses
http://www.askimam.org/fatwa/fatwaList.php?fid=31 found in the
Qur'anThe Qur’an is the central religious text of Islam...
(6348 ayat counting the bismilas).
Muslim:A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits ". Muslim is the participle of the same verb of which Islam is the infinitive. Muslims believe that there is only one God, translated in Arabic as Allah...
s regard each ayah of the Qur'an a sign from
AllahAllah is the standard Arabic word for God. While the term is best known in the West for its use by Muslims as a reference to God, it is used by Arabic-speakers of all Abrahamic faiths, including Christians and Jews, in reference to "God"...
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Ayah (
, plural
Ayat ) is the
ArabicArabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and the Neo-Aramaic languages. In terms of speakers, the Arabic macrolanguage is the largest member of the Semitic language family. It is spoken by more than 280 million people as...
word for
signAn omen is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change. Omens may be considered "good" or "bad", but the term is more often used in a foreboding sense, as with the word "ominous".-In ancient Rome:Ancient Roman religion employed two distinct types of...
or
miracleA miracle is a perceptible interruption of the laws of nature, such that can be attempted to be explained by divine intervention, and is sometimes associated with a miracle worker. Many folktales, religious texts, and people claim various events they refer to as "miraculous". People in different...
, cognate with Hebrew
ot , means sign. The word usually refers to each one of the 6236 verses
http://www.askimam.org/fatwa/fatwaList.php?fid=31 found in the
Qur'anThe Qur’an is the central religious text of Islam...
(6348 ayat counting the bismilas).
Muslim:A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits ". Muslim is the participle of the same verb of which Islam is the infinitive. Muslims believe that there is only one God, translated in Arabic as Allah...
s regard each ayah of the Qur'an a sign from
AllahAllah is the standard Arabic word for God. While the term is best known in the West for its use by Muslims as a reference to God, it is used by Arabic-speakers of all Abrahamic faiths, including Christians and Jews, in reference to "God"...
. The word
Ayat is also used by Christians in countries with strong Arabic language influence, such as
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n Christians.
The verse number in a symbol is written at the end of each verse. This symbol is ,
end of Ayah. Its
UnicodeUnicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
number is U+06DD and also denotes the end of a
suraA Surah is a "chapter" of the Qur'an, traditionally arranged roughly in order of decreasing length...
.
There are two types of ayat:
1- Verses that are
Muhkumaat: with very clear and straightforward meanings.
2- Verses that are
Mutashabehaat: with ambiguous, confusing, or multiple interpretations.