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The Signs Register

57 entries — the signs inventory with its commentary layer, documented never adjudicated; the red line stands: no claim of miracle from arithmetic, ever. The fuller inventory page lives in the Library.

{'key': '2:164', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'Creation of heavens and earth; alternation of night and day; ships sailing; rain reviving dead land; creatures dispersed; the directing of the winds; clouds held between sky an
{'key': '3:190', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'Creation of the heavens and earth; alternation of night and day.', 'note': ["Addressed to 'ulu al-albab' - those of understanding. Paired with 3:191, which describes them refle
{'key': '6:97', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'The stars placed as guides through the darknesses of land and sea.', 'note': ['Celestial navigation. Confirmed and ancient - Polynesian, Arab and Greek navigators all used stell
{'key': '6:98', 'cat': '5q', 'phenomenon': "Production of all humanity from a single soul, with a place of settlement (mustaqarr) and a place of storage (mustawda').", 'note': ["Links directly to 4:1 and the human-origin
{'key': '6:99', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'Rain producing growth; grain in layered arrangement; date clusters; gardens of grapes, olives and pomegranates.', 'note': ["'Grains arranged in layers' (mutarakiban) is a precis
{'key': '10:5', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': "Sun as radiance (diya'), moon as light (nur), lunar phases determined for calendrical reckoning.", 'note': ["The sun emits, the moon reflects. VERIFY THE LEXICAL PATTERN with qs
{'key': '10:6', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'Alternation of night and day; all that God created in the heavens and the earth.', 'note': ['A general signs formula. Its value in a paper is as a frame rather than as an item o
{'key': '13:2', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'Heavens raised without visible pillars; sun and moon subjected, each running to an appointed term.', 'note': ["Gravitation as an invisible support - Newton, 1687. Note the gramm
{'key': '13:3', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'The earth spread; firm mountains and rivers; of all fruits two pairs; night covering day.', 'note': ['Plant sexuality - Camerarius 1694, Linnaeus 1735. One of the stronger confi
{'key': '16:11', 'cat': '6w', 'phenomenon': 'Crops, olives, palms, grapevines and all fruits grown by rain.', 'note': ['Agricultural observation, plainly available. Included for completeness.']}
{'key': '16:12', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'Night, day, sun, moon subjected; the stars subjected by His command.', 'note': ['Celestial mechanics. Confirmed; partly observable.']}
{'key': '16:13', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'What He multiplied on the earth of varying colours.', 'note': ["Read as biodiversity, this connects to 16:8's open clause - 'He creates what you do not know'. Roughly 2.1 milli
{'key': '16:65', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'Rain giving life to the earth after its death.', 'note': ['The hydrological cycle and seasonal ecological recovery. Confirmed; observable.']}
{'key': '16:69', 'cat': '5', 'phenomenon': 'From the bellies of bees a drink of varying colours, in which is healing for people.', 'note': ["TWO SEPARATE MATTERS, and you must keep them apart. Honey's antimicrobial and w
{'key': '16:79', 'cat': '5', 'phenomenon': 'Birds held aloft in the atmosphere of the sky; none holds them but God.', 'note': ['Flight aerodynamics is fully solved and is not the open question. Avian MAGNETORECEPTION is
{'key': '17:12', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'Night and day made two signs; the sign of night effaced, the sign of day giving sight; that you may know the number of years and the reckoning.', 'note': ['Calendrical astronom
{'key': '20:54', 'cat': '6w', 'phenomenon': 'Pasture and livestock.', 'note': ['Agricultural. Included for completeness.']}
{'key': '24:41', 'cat': '5q', 'phenomenon': 'All in the heavens and the earth exalt Him, and the birds with wings spread - each knowing its own prayer and glorification.', 'note': ["Note the pronoun: the Qur'an uses MAN
{'key': '24:43', 'cat': '5', 'phenomenon': 'Clouds driven, joined, piled in heaps; rain from their midst; mountains of hail in the sky; lightning nearly taking away sight.', 'note': ['The meteorological sequence is confi
{'key': '24:45', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'Every moving creature created from water; some moving on bellies, some on two legs, some on four.', 'note': ['Water as the universal biological solvent - confirmed. The locomot
{'key': '29:44', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'God created the heavens and the earth in truth.', 'note': ['General formula.']}
{'key': '30:20', 'cat': '5', 'phenomenon': 'He created you from dust, then suddenly you were human beings dispersing.', 'note': ['Abiogenesis and human origins together. Links to 55:14, 15:26 and 4:1.', "The Qur'an descr
{'key': '30:21', 'cat': '5q', 'phenomenon': 'Mates created from yourselves, with affection and mercy placed between you.', 'note': ['Pair-bonding is real and studied - the neurobiology of attachment, oxytocin and vasopre
{'key': '30:22', 'cat': '5', 'phenomenon': 'Creation of the heavens and the earth; the diversity of your languages and your colours.', 'note': ['Pigmentation genetics is partly mapped and human variation does not partiti
{'key': '30:23', 'cat': '5', 'phenomenon': 'Your sleep by night and by day, and your seeking of His bounty.', 'note': ['WHY SLEEP EXISTS remains genuinely contested. It is universal, evolutionarily costly, and lethal to
{'key': '30:24', 'cat': '5', 'phenomenon': 'Lightning shown as fear and hope; rain sent down reviving the dead earth.', 'note': ["Same as 24:43 - the rain cycle is confirmed, lightning INITIATION is the open problem. Two
{'key': '30:25', 'cat': '5q', 'phenomenon': 'That the heaven and the earth remain standing by His command.', 'note': ['Read as the stability of physical order, this touches the fine-tuning problem - why the physical cons
{'key': '30:46', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'Winds sent as bringers of good tidings; ships sailing by His command.', 'note': ["Winds preceding rain-bearing systems - confirmed meteorology, and observable. Also connects to
{'key': '31:31', 'cat': '6w', 'phenomenon': "Ships sailing the sea by God's favour.", 'note': ['Buoyancy - Archimedes, c.250 BCE. Plainly observable. Included for completeness.']}
{'key': '34:9', 'cat': '1', 'phenomenon': 'What is before them and behind them of the heaven and earth; the earth could swallow them, or fragments fall from the sky.', 'note': ['Warning register. Fragments falling from t
{'key': '39:42', 'cat': '5', 'phenomenon': 'God takes the souls at death, and those that do not die during their sleep; He keeps some and releases others.', 'note': ['One of the strongest consciousness entries. The ayah
{'key': '41:37', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'The night and the day, the sun and the moon - and the instruction not to prostrate to sun or moon but to their Creator.', 'note': ["Astronomically ordinary; theologically point
{'key': '41:39', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'The earth stilled, then quivering and growing when rain descends.', 'note': ['Seasonal ecological revival, and the imbibition and swelling of dry soil and seed on wetting. Conf
{'key': '42:29', 'cat': '5', 'phenomenon': 'Creation of the heavens and the earth, and what He has dispersed THROUGHOUT THEM BOTH of creatures (dabbah).', 'note': ['THE STRONGEST ASTROBIOLOGY VERSE, AND HERE IS THE EVIDE
{'key': '42:32', 'cat': '6w', 'phenomenon': 'The ships in the sea, like mountains.', 'note': ['Buoyancy. Observable. Included for completeness.']}
{'key': '42:33', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'If He willed, He could still the wind, and they would remain motionless on the surface.', 'note': ['Wind propulsion. Accurate and plainly observable.']}
{'key': '45:3', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'Within the heavens and the earth are signs for the believers.', 'note': ['General formula opening a dense signs-passage that runs 45:3 to 45:6.']}
{'key': '45:4', 'cat': '5', 'phenomenon': 'In your own creation, and in what He disperses of moving creatures, are signs for a people who are certain.', 'note': ['Note the verb yabuththu - the same dispersal verb as 42:2
{'key': '45:5', 'cat': '5', 'phenomenon': 'Alternation of night and day; provision sent down from the sky reviving the dead earth; the directing of the winds.', 'note': ['Rain and seasonal revival are confirmed. The open
{'key': '45:13', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'He has subjected to you whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth, all from Him.', 'note': ["A framing verse for the human capacity to investigate and use the nat
{'key': '57:17', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'God gives life to the earth after its lifelessness.', 'note': ['Seasonal ecological revival. Confirmed; observable.']}
{'key': '7:58', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': "The good land brings forth its vegetation by its Lord's permission; the bad land brings forth only sparsely and with difficulty.", 'note': ['Soil fertility. Confirmed - soil qua
{'key': '13:4', 'cat': '5', 'phenomenon': 'Neighbouring plots of land, gardens of grapes, crops and palms - some growing several from a single root, some not - WATERED WITH ONE WATER, yet We make some excel others in fru
{'key': '10:67', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'The night made for rest, and the day giving sight.', 'note': ['Circadian biology. Confirmed - the sleep-wake cycle is governed by an endogenous clock entrained by light, with t
{'key': '27:86', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'The night made that they may rest therein, and the day giving sight.', 'note': ["Near-verbatim parallel to 10:67. See that entry. The repetition itself is data: for a paper on
{'key': '16:67', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'From the fruits of palms and grapevines you take intoxicant (sakar) and good provision.', 'note': ['Fermentation. Confirmed - Pasteur demonstrated in 1857 that fermentation is
{'key': '10:24', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': "Worldly life likened to rain, with which the earth's plants mingle, until the earth takes on its adornment - then the command comes and it is made a harvested field, as if it h
{'key': '10:101', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'Say: observe (unzuru) what is in the heavens and the earth.', 'note': ['A METHODOLOGICAL VERSE, and one of the most useful in the whole inventory for framing a paper. It is a
{'key': '34:19', 'cat': '6', 'phenomenon': 'They asked for the distance between their journeys to be lengthened, wronged themselves, and were scattered in total dispersion.', 'note': ['The historical aftermath of the Mar
{'key': '2:266', 'cat': '1', 'phenomenon': 'A garden of palms and vines with rivers beneath, struck by a fiery whirlwind and burned, belonging to a man overtaken by old age with weak offspring.', 'note': ['A PARABLE, not
{'key': '3:49', 'cat': '3', 'phenomenon': "Jesus forming a bird from clay and breathing life into it, curing the blind and the leper, raising the dead - all by God's permission.", 'note': ["MIRACLE-SIGNS, not natural sig
{'key': '7:32', 'cat': '1', 'phenomenon': 'The adornment of God brought forth for His servants, and the good things of provision.', 'note': ['A legal and moral ruling on what is permitted, not a natural sign. No scientif
{'key': '17:1', 'cat': '1', 'phenomenon': 'The night journey from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al-Aqsa, to show him of Our signs.', 'note': ["A miracle-sign and permanently Category 1. The 'signs' shown are not natura
{'key': '12:35', 'cat': 'fp', 'phenomenon': 'Not a natural sign - FILTER FALSE POSITIVE.', 'note': ["'The signs' here means the evidence of Yusuf's innocence, not signs in nature. The verse was caught by the keyword filt
{'key': '24:58', 'cat': 'fp', 'phenomenon': 'Not a natural sign - FILTER FALSE POSITIVE.', 'note': ['Rules on seeking permission before entering at three times of privacy. Matched on domestic vocabulary. Retained and mar
{'key': '24:61', 'cat': 'fp', 'phenomenon': 'Not a natural sign - FILTER FALSE POSITIVE.', 'note': ['Rules on eating in the houses of relatives and friends. Matched on domestic vocabulary. Retained and marked.']}
{'key': '30:28', 'cat': 'fp', 'phenomenon': 'Not a natural sign - FILTER FALSE POSITIVE.', 'note': ["A parable about partnership drawn from human social relations, used to argue against associating partners with God. Mat

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