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| Ummu'l-Kitáb |
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| Pronunciation: om-mull-ket-ob |
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| The Mother of the Book, "The heavenly original of the Scriptures revealed to the prophets, inscribed on the 'Preserved Tablet'...." Cf. Qur'án 13:39: "With Him (God) is the Mother of the Book." Also Qur'án 3:5 and 85:21. The Mother Book is "also the Book of Divine Knowlege and Foreordainment." (Nicholson, R.A., Commentary on the Mat̲h̲nawí, 1, 32). The word "umm"—mother— means source, basis, chief part. The Mother Book is also defined as "the original copy of the Book with Alláh in heaven, from which the revelations of the Qur'án come...." (Sh. Enc. of Is.) It is the archetypical Book, Qur'án 43:3; the source of Revelation, Qur'án 13:39. |
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