In the Quran, the broadness of linguistic import presents a problem—and a fruitful one at that. The acknowledgment of which constitutes a first step towards its solution, towards understanding the corpus and the weltanschauung  that underlies its construction. To take an example: ask, why would the word 'Fulk,'  by a slight diacritical modification, be applicable in as many different settings as it is—settings so different from one another that the unity of the word is indeed

Let's pick up from the last essay -> our analysis of the word 'الفُلْك' which we said that despite meaning the same word, has various contextual meanings. If in one case the word 'Fulk' (الفُلْك) means 'ship' or 'vessel' ( 7:64) , and if in the other it means 'orbit' ( 21:33 ), then think: what's that element which either case features that can be found or 'gleaned' in the other? (Commutativity) —as in, is there something 'vessel-like' about the being or motion of celestial o

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