Qur'an

The Qur'an ({{lang-ar|أَلْقُرآن}} al-qur'ān literally "the recitation"; also called Al Qur'ān Al Karīm or "The Noble Qur'an"; or transliterated Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. It is a tenet of Islam that the Qur'an is the literal word of God in Arabic and the culmination of God's revelation to mankind, revealed to Muhammad, the final prophet of Islam, over a period of 23 years through the angel Jibril (Gabriel).

Format of the Qur'an

The Qur'an consists of 114 suras (chapters) with a total of 6,236 ayat (verses) excluding the 112 Bismillahs which are mostly considered as unnumbered, or 6,348 including them; the exact number of ayat is disputed, not due to content dispute but due to different methods of counting. (A few "Quran-only" Muslims, having rejected two verses of the Qur'an as spurious, give the exact number as 6,346.) Muslims usually refer to the suras not by their numbers, but by an Arabic name derived in some way from the sura. (See List of sura names.) The suras are not arranged in chronological order (in the order in which Islamic scholars believe they were revealed) but in a different order, roughly by size, also believed by Muslims to be divinely inspired. After a short opening, the Qur'an proceeds to the longest sura, and closes with some of the shortest ones.

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114 - Sura - Ayat - Quran-only - Muslims

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