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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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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…