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Jumuʿah means gathering, not Friday: proposal for the Challenged ideas pageRoot j-m-ʿ means gathering. The fixed-day reading rests on the yawm al-sabt parallel, not on the word itself.
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The mausoleum's orientation: has anyone measured it against the solstice?A member in Tipaza offers to take bearings this week. What would count as evidence, and what grade could it reach?
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التابوت is also the ark in 2:248. Same object, or just the same word?
Two occurrences in the whole Quran. One carries a baby, one carries sakīna and relics. Asking for both syntactic frames before anyone concludes.
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Treaty of Darin, article 6: what was actually promised?The 1915 text is public. Finding #1 tables the six articles; two members have attached the National Archives scan. Needs 25 votes to enter the ranking.
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Does 3:96 mean the first House built, or the first appointed for people?
وُضِعَ is passive, set down or appointed. Every other occurrence of the root in the Quran is listed in the attached table. Claim: the verse is about appointment, not construction.
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Which river? The text says اليم only. Should the map show no pin for this moment at all?
28:7 and 20:39 both use اليم without a name. 20:39 says the chest will be cast by the water onto the shore where an enemy picks it up; still no name, no country. If we put a pin on any river we are adding what the verse does not say. I propose the moment stays unpinned and the ev…