“Our Lord…”

Every verse in which someone addresses God as rabbanā, “our Lord”, in the order the verses appear in the muṣḥaf.

“Our Lord…”: every verse where the Qur'an says rabbanā

The verses that open by quoting a question put to the messenger, together with the answer that follows it.

The verses built on the Qur'an's own phrase for making a comparison, ḍaraba mathalan, “to strike a likeness”.

Every verse that opens by asking the messenger whether he has seen something, and then names the thing.

The verses that pronounce woe on someone, and the verses where someone cries it about themselves.

The verses that end by saying whom their signs are for. Each one names the faculty required to see them.

Every verse in which the word qurʾān appears, which is where the book says what it is, what it does, and what it is not.

The verses in which ẓulumāt and nūr appear together. The darkness is always plural and the light is always one.

The verses that open by addressing all people rather than the believers among them.

The verses that end on ghafūrun raḥīmun, and what each of them was about before it got there.

Thirteen verses that stop, ask whether the reader knows what a thing is, and then say.

Every verse in which God says what the messenger was sent as, and three where He says what he was not.