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Cited in 4 segments across 2 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · quran/quran:29:14
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6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Did Noah really live 950 years?
Noah's 950 years refers to an ancient counting system like those of the Sumerian king lists, signalled by the verse's unusual wording, not to ordinary years; he never said the Quran copied an error from the Bible.
machine4 min 30 s3:15:33on YouTube
11 Aug 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Did the Prophet Nuh really live for 950 years?
Nuh did not literally live 950 years, Mufti Abu Layth says. The verse's use of two different words for year, sana and 'am, is deliberate and not just rhetorical variation.
machine3 min 53 s0:00on YouTube
11 Aug 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Why do ancient texts say people lived for hundreds or thousands of years?
The enormous reigns in the Sumerian king lists reflect a different counting system, likely based on sixty, and the numbers shorten after the flood. Mufti Abu Layth believes the Old Testament's long lifespans were inherited from this Babylonian material.
machine5 min 16 s3:53on YouTube
11 Aug 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Why does the Quran call the ruler in Yusuf's story a king but Musa's a Pharaoh?
The thousand sana follow the counting of Nuh's own people and the fifty 'am are years as we count them. The Quran relates narratives in the terms of their own time, as when Yusuf's ruler is a king and Musa's is Pharaoh.
machine3 min 08 s9:09on YouTube