Breast-piece; be excellent, beautiful; beauty, all excellence

In the Hebrew Bible: ḥošen, breast-piece

In the Qurʾan: muḥsin, the good-doers · ʾaḥsan, best · ḥasana, good · ʾaḥsana, do good

Regular sound-law correspondence; the two glosses indicate the same field (similarity ≥ 0.50). ḥurūf al-ṣafīr, at the ʿayn: sīn answering šin.

Passages

• Exodus 25:7: onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.
• Leviticus 8:8: He placed the breastplate on him; and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim.
• Revelation 1:13: And among the lamp stands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.
• Sūrat al-Ṣāffāt سورة الصافات “Those who set the Ranks” 37:80: Lo! thus do We reward the good.
• Sūrat al-Mursalāt سورة المرسلات “The Emissaries” 77:44: Thus do We reward the good.
• Sūrat al-Furqān سورة الفرقان “The Criterion” 25:76: Abiding there for ever. Happy is it as abode and station!

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Opening music: Touchia Ḥijāz, Thami Ben Abdelkrim, violin, with percussion (Morocco, 1920s), public domain. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF, Archives de la Parole.

The digital voice Fāṭima (فَاطِمَة) is named in honor of the learned women of al-Andalus, particularly Fāṭima bint Yaḥyā al-Maghāmī, Fāṭima al-Sharrāṭ, and Fāṭima bint al-Muthannā, whose legacies embody the Andalusian traditions of scriptural scholarship, jurisprudence, education, and wisdom.

House; place; receptacle

In the Hebrew Bible: bayit, house · bet-ʾel, Beth-el · bet leḥem, Bethlehem · bitan, house

In the Qurʾan: bayt, houses · bayyata, plan by night · bayāt, night · yabītu, spend night

Sound-law correspondence and an explicit cognate link. ʾajwaf, at the ʿayn: hollow middle.

Passages

• Genesis 13:3: He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
• Mark 2:1: When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house.
• Acts 7:47: But Solomon built him a house.
• Matthew 10:12: As you enter into the household, greet it.
• Sūrat Quraysh سورة قريش “Quraysh” 106:3: So let them worship the Lord of this House,
• Sūrat al-Furqān سورة الفرقان “The Criterion” 25:64: And who spend the night before their Lord, prostrate and standing,
• Sūrat al-Shuʿarāʾ سورة الشعراء “The Poets” 26:149: Though ye hew out dwellings in the mountain, being skilful?

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Opening music: Touchia Ḥijāz, Thami Ben Abdelkrim, violin, with percussion (Morocco, 1920s), public domain. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF, Archives de la Parole.

The digital voice Fāṭima (فَاطِمَة) is named in honor of the learned women of al-Andalus, particularly Fāṭima bint Yaḥyā al-Maghāmī, Fāṭima al-Sharrāṭ, and Fāṭima bint al-Muthannā, whose legacies embody the Andalusian traditions of scriptural scholarship, jurisprudence, education, and wisdom.

A head of cattle; lily; Shushan

In the Hebrew Bible: šor, a head of cattle · šušan, Shushan · šušan, lily · šušan ʿedut, Shushan-eduth

In the Qurʾan: ʾathāru, to plow

Sound-law correspondence and an explicit cognate link. al-ḥurūf al-lithawiyya, at the fāʾ: thāʾ written šin; ʾajwaf, at the ʿayn: hollow middle.

Passages

• Exodus 34:19: All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.
• Leviticus 22:28: Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in one day.
• Numbers 15:11: Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats.
• Luke 15:23: Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;
• Hebrews 10:4: For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
• 1 Timothy 5:18: For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”
• Sūrat al-ʿĀdiyāt سورة العاديات “The Courser” 100:4: Then, therewith, with their trail of dust,
• Sūrat Fāṭir سورة فاطر “Originator” 35:9: And Allah it is Who sendeth the winds and they raise a cloud; then We lead it unto a dead land and revive therewith the earth after its death. Such is the Resurrection.
• Sūrat al-Baqara سورة البقرة “The Cow” 2:71: (Moses) answered: Lo! He saith: Verily she is a cow unyoked; she plougheth not the soil nor watereth the tilth; whole and without mark. They said: Now thou bringest the truth. So they sacrificed her, though almost they did not.

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Opening music: Touchia Ḥijāz, Thami Ben Abdelkrim, violin, with percussion (Morocco, 1920s), public domain. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF, Archives de la Parole.

The digital voice Fāṭima (فَاطِمَة) is named in honor of the learned women of al-Andalus, particularly Fāṭima bint Yaḥyā al-Maghāmī, Fāṭima al-Sharrāṭ, and Fāṭima bint al-Muthannā, whose legacies embody the Andalusian traditions of scriptural scholarship, jurisprudence, education, and wisdom.