{"id":947,"date":"2013-09-29T14:09:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T14:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/v2\/?p=947"},"modified":"2014-09-29T14:11:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T14:11:04","slug":"editorial-6-5-1429","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/editorial\/editorial-6-5-1429\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: 6.5 1429"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Quran e Majeed begins with <em>Bismillah ir rahman ir rahim<\/em>. The Arabic alphabet starts with <em>alif<\/em>, but the Quran, revealed upon Rasulullah<sup>SA<\/sup>\u00a0in pure <em>Arabi ye mubin<\/em>, begins with \u201c<em>baa<\/em>\u201d the second letter of the alphabet written in the form of an <em>alif<\/em>. <!--more-->The wonders of the Quran amaze and confound from the very beginning. Following the <em>umm ul kitab<\/em>, is <em>Surat ul Baqara<\/em>. Scholars have suggested that the group of letters \u201c<em>alif lam meem<\/em>\u201d which introduce the <em>surat<\/em>, is a <em>qasam<\/em> that Allah swears by, others have said that it is a literary device used to attract an audience. In the next line, Allah swears by \u201cthat <em>kitab<\/em>\u201d (<em>zalik al kitab<\/em>). Contrary to expectation, the Quran, refers to itself as \u201cthat\u201d instead of \u201cthis\u201d. Or perhaps the Quran is not speaking of itself but of a different Quran? The answer to this question and more have continued to enthrall and amaze for 1400 years; the keys to these mysteries and these secrets lies with only those who are worthy of the title of \u201c<em>Ahl uz Zikr<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quran e Majeed begins with Bismillah ir rahman ir rahim. The Arabic alphabet starts with alif, but the Quran, revealed upon RasulullahSA\u00a0in pure Arabi ye mubin, begins with \u201cbaa\u201d the second letter of the alphabet written in the form of an alif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}