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Surah Az-Zumar — 39:28

قُرْءَانًا عَرَبِيًّا غَيْرَ ذِى عِوَجٍ لَّعَلَّهُمْ يَتَّقُونَ

Qur-aanan 'Arabiyyan ghaira zee 'iwajil la'allahum yattaqoon

an Arabic Quran, free from any distortion- so that people may be mindful.

An Arabic Qur'an, without any crookedness, so that they may be mindful of God.

Reflection

Both descriptions sit in apposition to the book named a line earlier, so they are said of the same Qur'an just credited with every kind of parable. The philologists separated ʿiwaj, with a kasra, from ʿawaj with a fatha: the first belongs to things having no physical shape, speech or a way of life, the second to a bent stick. The same phrasing opens 18:1.

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