Duration; abide, continue

In the Hebrew Bible: ḥeled, duration

In the Qurʾan: khālid, abide forever · khuld, the everlasting · ʾakhlada, adhered · yakhlud, and he will abide forever

Sound-law correspondence and an explicit cognate link. ḥurūf al-ḥalq, at the fāʾ: khāʾ folded into ḥet.

Passages

• Job 11:17: Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.
• Hebrews 11:1: Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
• Sūrat al-Shuʿarāʾ سورة الشعراء “The Poets” 26:129: And seek ye out strongholds, that haply ye may last for ever?
• Sūrat al-Wāqiʿa سورة الواقعة “The Inevitable” 56:17: There wait on them immortal youths
• Sūrat al-Humaza سورة الهمزة “The Traducer” 104:3: He thinketh that his wealth will render him immortal.

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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.

Way; tread; march

In the Hebrew Bible: derek, way · darak, tread · darkemon, drachma · midrak, treading-

In the Qurʾan: ʾadraka, will overtake you · iddāraka, they had overtaken one another · dark, the depths · darak, to be overtaken

Sound-law correspondence and an explicit cognate link. Each radical answers its like, letter for letter; no shift is needed.

Passages

• Genesis 33:16: So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
• Exodus 4:24: On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.
• Luke 8:12: Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.
• Romans 3:17: The way of peace, they haven’t known.”
• Sūrat al-Shuʿarāʾ سورة الشعراء “The Poets” 26:61: And when the two hosts saw each other, those with Moses said: Lo! we are indeed caught.
• Sūrat al-ʾAnʿām سورة الأنعام “The Cattle” 6:103: Vision comprehendeth Him not, but He comprehendeth (all) vision. He is the Subtile, the Aware.
• Sūrat al-Qalam سورة القلم “The Pen” 68:49: Had it not been that favour from his Lord had reached him he surely had been cast into the wilderness while he was reprobate.

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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.

Clarion; sound a clarion

In the Hebrew Bible: ḥaṣoṣerah, clarion · ḥaṣar, sound a clarion

In the Qurʾan: ʾuḥṣiru, you are held back · ḥaṣirat, restraining · ḥaṣūr, and chaste · ḥaṣīr, a prison-bed

Sound-law correspondence and an explicit cognate link. Each radical answers its like, letter for letter; no shift is needed.

Passages

• 2 Chronicles 29:26: The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
• Nehemiah 12:41: and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
• 1 Chronicles 16:6: and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
• 1 Corinthians 14:8: For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?
• Revelation 8:6: The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
• Sūrat al-ʾIsrāʾ سورة الإسراء “The Night Journey” 17:8: It may be that your Lord will have mercy on you, but if ye repeat (the crime) We shall repeat (the punishment), and We have appointed hell a dungeon for the disbelievers.
• Sūrat ʾĀl ʿImrān سورة آل عمران “Family of Imran” 3:39: And the angels called to him as he stood praying in the sanctuary: Allah giveth thee glad tidings of (a son whose name is) John, (who cometh) to confirm a word from Allah lordly, chaste, a prophet of the righteous.
• Sūrat al-Tawba سورة التوبة “The Repentance” 9:5: Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

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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.