The Claims Audit

The contested-ayah extractions: 10 ayat pulled through the 4-pass required-elements design, each read across every edition that speaks on it. And the category-5 catalogue: 42 entries, documented never adjudicated.

The extracted ayat

2:191 — read across 30 editions

24:2 — read across 34 editions

4:157 — read across 28 editions

4:3 — read across 33 editions

4:34 — read across 30 editions

5:33 — read across 30 editions

5:73 — read across 27 editions

8:12 — read across 30 editions

9:29 — read across 31 editions

9:5 — read across 33 editions

The catalogue (first 120)

{'id': 'cos-01', 'plain': ['The ayah says that the heavens and the earth were once a single sealed or joined mass, and that God then split them apart. Two Arabic words carry the whole idea. RATQ means something sewn shut

{'id': 'cos-02', 'plain': ['The ayah says that God turned toward the heaven while it was DUKHAN - smoke - and then addressed it and the earth. Dukhan in Arabic means smoke or vapour: something diffuse, hot, spread out, n

{'id': 'cos-03', 'plain': ["The ayah says God built the heaven with power, and that 'inna la-musi'un'. That last phrase is where the whole discussion sits.", "MUSI' comes from the root W-S-'A, which carries the sense of

{'id': 'ast-05', 'plain': ["The ayah lists among God's signs the creation of the heavens and the earth, and 'what He has scattered through them of DABBAH'. Dabbah means a moving, walking creature - a living animal. It is

{'id': 'lif-01', 'plain': ['The ayah says God created man from SALSAL like FAKHKHAR. Both words are specific and worth separating.', 'Salsal means dry clay that makes a sound - it rings or rattles when struck, because it

{'id': 'min-01', 'plain': ["People asked the Prophet about the RUH. The answer given is that the ruh is 'min amri rabbi' - of the command, or the affair, of my Lord - and that mankind has been given only a little knowled

{'id': 'mth-01', 'plain': ["Twenty-nine surahs open with detached Arabic letters, recited individually rather than as words. Alif Lam Mim. Ha Mim. Ta Ha. Ya Sin. Qaf. Nun. Kaf Ha Ya 'Ayn Sad. Ha Mim 'Ayn Sin Qaf. There a

{'id': 'anm-01', 'plain': ['The ayah says there is no creature on the earth, nor a bird flying on its wings, but that they are UMAM - communities, nations, peoples - like you. It then adds that nothing has been omitted f

{'id': 'pop-01', 'plain': ['The ayah opens Surah an-Nisa by addressing all humanity: fear your Lord, who created you from a SINGLE SOUL - nafs wahida - and created from it its mate, and spread from the two of them many m

{'id': 'mth-06', 'plain': ["The ayah states that God sent down the Reminder - the Qur'an - and that God will be its guardian, its preserver.", 'This is a claim the text makes ABOUT ITSELF, and unusually it is a claim wit

{'id': 'phy-02', 'plain': ['The ayah describes a sequence: God drives clouds, then joins them together, then piles them into heaps, and rain issues from their midst; and He sends down from mountains in the sky, of hail,

{'id': 'bio-10', 'plain': ["The ayah lists animals given for transport and adornment - horses, mules, donkeys - and then closes with a clause that does not close: 'wa yakhluqu ma la ta'lamun'. And He creates what you do

{'id': 'min-02', 'plain': ['The ayah says God takes the souls at the time of their death, and takes those that have not died during their sleep; He then retains those upon which death has been decreed and releases the ot

{'id': 'rev-01', 'plain': ['A man passes a town lying in ruins and wonders aloud how God could restore it after its death. God then causes him to die for a hundred years and raises him again, and asks how long he stayed.

{'id': 'prt-01', 'plain': ['The ayah says that not the weight of a DHARRAH escapes your Lord, in the earth or in the heaven - and then adds the clause that carries the whole entry: NOR ANYTHING SMALLER THAN THAT, NOR GRE

{'id': 'mth-03', 'plain': ["The ayah asks: do they not reflect upon the Qur'an? Had it been from other than God, they would have found in it much CONTRADICTION - ikhtilafan kathiran.", 'This is unusual and worth pausing

{'id': 'nrs-01', 'plain': ['The passage warns that if a man does not desist, he will be seized by the NASIYAH - and then calls it a lying, sinful forelock.', 'The nasiyah is the front of the head - the forelock, the hair

{'id': 'flo-01', 'plain': ['The ayah describes the flood as water arriving from two directions at once: the gates of heaven opened with water pouring down, AND the earth burst forth with springs - and then the two waters

{'id': 'anm-04', 'plain': ['God inspires the BEE - and every verb and pronoun addressing the bee is grammatically feminine - to take dwellings in mountains, trees and structures; then to eat of all fruits and follow the

{'id': 'bio-15', 'plain': ["The ayah likens those who take protectors besides God to the spider that takes a house - and says the frailest of houses is the spider's house, if they only knew.", "You need to know at the ou

{'id': 'lif-05', 'plain': ["The ayah says God created man from SALSAL - sounding clay - from HAMA' MASNUN, altered black mud.", "Hama' means dark, fetid mud - the kind that forms where organic matter has decayed in stand

{'id': 'anm-03', 'plain': ["As Solomon's forces approach, an ant says: O ants, enter your dwellings, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you WHILE THEY DO NOT PERCEIVE.", 'Three details are doing work here, and the third is

{'id': 'anm-02', 'plain': ['Solomon says: we have been taught MANTIQ AT-TAYR - the speech, or the logic, of birds - and we have been given of all things.', 'Mantiq is a strong word. It comes from the root for speech and

{'id': 'mth-04', 'plain': ['God says: We will show them Our signs in the AFAQ - the horizons, the far regions - and in ANFUSIHIM, within themselves, until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth.', 'Two directions

{'id': 'bio-16', 'plain': ["Among God's signs: the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your TONGUES and your COLOURS.", 'Two kinds of human variation named together in one clause, and named as sig

{'id': 'min-03', 'plain': ['And We made your sleep a SUBAT.', "Subat comes from a root meaning to cut off, to sever, to interrupt. The same root gives the word for the Sabbath - the day on which work ceases. It is usuall

{'id': 'rev-02', 'plain': ['The companions of the cave lie in a state where an observer would think them awake though they are asleep; they are turned to the right and to the left; their dog lies with its forelegs stretc

{'id': 'lif-02', 'plain': ['And We made from water every living thing.', 'A universal claim - every living thing, without exception - and a claim about material composition rather than about origin alone.'], 'science': [

{'id': 'phy-01', 'plain': ['And We SENT DOWN iron, in which is great might and benefits for people.', 'The word is anzalna - the same verb used of sending down rain and of sending down revelation. It denotes descent from

{'id': 'cos-04', 'plain': ['By the heaven possessing HUBUK.', 'Hubuk is a difficult word and you must say so. Classical lexicons give: woven or plaited patterns, the ripple marks wind leaves on sand or water, and by exte

{'id': 'ast-03', 'plain': ['By the heaven and the TARIQ - and what will make you know what the tariq is? - AN-NAJM ATH-THAQIB, the piercing star.', 'Tariq comes from the root for striking or knocking, and denotes one who

{'id': 'ast-04', 'plain': ['So I swear by AL-KHUNNAS, AL-JAWAR AL-KUNNAS.', 'Three words, all difficult. Khunnas: those that retreat, shrink back, or hide. Jawar: those that run or course. Kunnas: those that sweep, or th

{'id': 'ast-02', 'plain': ["So I swear by the MAWAQI' of the stars - and it is a mighty oath, if you only knew.", "Mawaqi' is the plural of mawqi', a place of falling or setting. Readings include the stars' positions, th

{'id': 'bio-11', 'plain': ['Glory to Him who created ALL THE PAIRS - of what the earth grows, and of themselves, AND OF THAT WHICH THEY DO NOT KNOW.', 'Three categories: plants, humans, and an open third that is delibera

{'id': 'anm-05', 'plain': ['Do they not see the birds above them, spreading their wings and folding them? None holds them aloft but the Most Merciful.', 'A direct invitation to observe a familiar sight - and a statement

{'id': 'anm-06', 'plain': ['The hoopoe, having been absent, says: I have encompassed what you have not encompassed, and I have come to you from Saba with certain news.', 'The bird reports. It claims knowledge its master

{'id': 'bio-18', 'plain': ["It is He who produced you from a single soul, and there is a MUSTAQARR and a MUSTAWDA'.", "Mustaqarr: a place of settling, of coming to rest. Mustawda': a place of deposit, of being entrusted

{'id': 'lif-04', 'plain': ['He created you in stages - ATWARAN.', 'Tawr means a stage, a phase, a condition passed through. The plural indicates a succession of them.', 'The ayah does not specify what the stages are, whi

{'id': 'tel-01', 'plain': ['One who had knowledge of the Book said: I will bring it to you before your glance returns to you. And when Solomon saw it settled before him, he said: this is from the favour of my Lord.', "A

{'id': 'cos-09', 'plain': ['And of everything We created PAIRS, that you may remember.', "The universal is strong: kulli shay', everything. Not most things, not living things - everything.", 'See 36:36, which makes the s

{'id': 'ast-01', 'plain': ['O company of jinn and men, if you are able to pass beyond the AQTAR - the regions, the diameters, the furthest reaches - of the heavens and the earth, then pass. You will not pass except by SU

{'id': 'esc-02', 'plain': ['A duplicate entry, retained deliberately so the sweep record stays complete.', "See ast-02 for the full treatment of 56:75 and the mawaqi' of the stars."], 'science': ['See ast-02.'], 'state':

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