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For the Qur’an to be the primary guide for Muslims, it needs to be understoodin all times and spaces. The Qur’an can best guide humanity as long as its messages arereceived perfectly, and this reception requires adequate comprehension of God’sintention in the divine text. This is why the true interpretation of the Qur’anic verses hasalways been one of the primary purposes of Muslim scholars. This true interpretationentails true understanding of the Qur’anic concepts. This paper is intended tocontribute to this goal by analyzing the term of ayah, one of the most importantconcepts of the Qur’an. In order to determine the field of meaning of the term, I dealwith its etymology, its usage in the pre-Islamic Arab poetry, its lexical content, and itsusage in the Qur’an and hadiths. I also deal with the terms that are semantically relatedto ayah. The main thesis of the article is that the Qur’anic term of ayah has a very richfield of meaning as it signifies more than ten realities.

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