Plural Nouns and Allah
- philhoraia
- Nov 17, 2021
- 3 min read
Updated: Dec 25, 2024
S 15:9 We have sent down the dhikr and we are keepers for it.
S 15:23 And we vivify and cause to die and we are the inheritors.
S 21:17 Had we wanted to take a ‘fun’ we would have taken it from us if we were doers.
S 21:47 And we placed the balance of equity for the day of resurrection so a soul will not be wronged at all. And if there was a weight of a grain of mustard we brought it. And enough were we as accountants.
S 21:78 And Dawud and Sulayman when they judge concerning the tilth, when the people’s sheep pastured therein and we were witnesses to their judgment.
S 21:79 And we made Sulayman understand it and each did we give judgment and knowledge. And we subjected with Dawud the mountains glorifying and the bird. And we were doers.
S 21:81 And to Sulayman the wind, a storm, running by his command to the land which we have blessed. And we were knowers of everything.
S 21:82 And of the devils those who dive for him and do work other than that. And we were keepers of them.
S 21:94 So he who does some of the righteous deeds and he is a believer, there is no kufran of his striving. And we are scribes for it.
S 21:104 On a day we roll up the sky like the rolling-up of a scroll for books. As we began a first creation we repeat it, a promise upon us. We were doers.
S 28:58 And how many we destroyed of a village that was haughty in its living! Those are their residences. It has not dwelled after them except a little. And we were the inheritors.
S 37:75 And Nuh invoked us and excellent were the responders.
S 43:41 And whether we take you away we are avengers on them.
S 44:3 We sent it down on a blessed night. We were warners.
S 44:5 A matter from us. We were dispatchers,
S 44:16 A day we wipe out with the biggest wiping-out. We are avengers.
S 56:59 Is it you who create it or are we the creators?
S 56:64 Is it you who sow it or are we the sowers?
S 56:69 Is it you who have sent it down from the nimbuses or are we the senders down?
S 56:72 Is it you who created its tree or are we the creators?
The following from my post Allah the Physical Being may be added:
There are a number of passages in which the Quran speaks of Allah’s eyes and hands in the plural. In Arabic the plural is used of three or more.
S 11:37 And make the ship under our eyes and our inspiration and do not address me concerning those who have wronged. They are drowned.
S 52:48 And be patient for your lord’s judgment and you are in our eyes. And glorify with your lord’s praise when you rise.
S 54:14 Running in our eyes, a recompense for him who was disbelieved in.
S 36:71 Have they not seen that we have created for them of what our hands have done, cattle, then they are owners of them?
S 51:47 And the sky, we built it with strength {literally, with hands} and we are able.
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