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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 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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