Semantic density 

Greater the density, easier to perceive and translate

What is the causative factor of information? It is the Will of a Living Who desires to share that information with others. Information, thus, arises only through an intentional, volitional act of the Living Being. Therefore, information is but a variable quantity depending on the desire and decision of the Sender:

  • But they can not encompass - comprehensively grasp any material-physical or abstract entity loaded with partial information of the Knowledge of Him the Exalted. Exception is only to that information which He the Exalted desired to share-acquaint them with. [Ref 2:255]

 

It does not require wisdom of philosopher and a scientist to observe this unique reality more visibly than the Sun, perceivable even in utter darkness. It is equally explicit for a man of ordinary prudence provided he stands for a moment and ponders.

A bit of information through the medium of material world suffices for a man to immediately recognize the existence of its sender. Every bit of information introduces to us the Lord of the Universes - Allah the Exalted. Therefore, we should not be neglectful of surroundings and become worse than mammals. Let us awake and acknowledge the most visible fact all around us. الله أكبر

A verbal passage of a book is part of speech put as written discourse that has a complete and independent meaning transmitting a certain amount of information for the audience and reader. Accurately perceivable information intended for audience needs to be organized and embedded in succinct manner. Little semantic information spread over volumes of text will tax the reader.

Each Unitary Verbal Passage, comprising of a certain arrangement of words in any language, has in it certain semantic density of information. This is the plentitude of ideas, pointers, concepts, and thoughts intended to be communicated or shared with the recipient by certain arrangement of words in a verbal passage. The semantic density of information in relation to statistical information-quantity of letters, phonemes, morphemes, words, and vowels etc which embed that semantic content is what we call succinctness.

The density of semantic information in short volume of text of Grand Qur’ān might be gauged from this disclosure:

  • Take note that had every tree existing in the Earth was in the state converted into writing pens;

  • And the Ocean was used as ink for writing and after it having become empty seven smaller oceans kept adding to it: the global Ocean:

  • The limited number of verbal expressions of Allah the Exalted would not have emptied - lost information.

  •  This is a fact that Allah the Exalted is the All Pervasive-Dominant and eternally the Wise-Knower of invisible-secreted-infolded realities [31:27]

: The Ocean and use of diminutive noun: : seven smaller oceans quite conspicuously indicates its meanings as World ocean or global ocean which is the interconnected system of Earth's oceanic waters. It is basically a solitary continuous ocean that covers and encircles most of the Earth. It covers almost 71% of the Earth's surface, with a total volume of 1.332 billion cubic kilometers, and 97% of Earth's water.

: Its Root is " ب ح ر ". The basic perception infolded in it is to slit, trench, or cleave lengthwise. Since the beds of  river, sea, and ocean are naturally trenched on a large area of land in length and width which become the flowing route of reservoirs of waters, therefore, the word: refers and signifies in context either the Lake, the River, the Sea, or the Ocean. The rivers end up, or we may say the trench continues to join another trench of bigger size in lakes and seas. From this, we can see the concept and perception of a global interconnected trench enabling flow and serving as reservoir of water.

: It is a Possessive Phrase. : First noun of possessive phrase is definite by construct. It is feminine broken plural of paucity showing a limited quantity. It signifies expression of meaningful thought through words organized in a particular manner according to grammar rules of concerned language. In grammar language it denotes sentences. The phrase thus means: "the limited number of verbal expressions of Allah the Exalted". Like the trench of ocean as reservoir of water; the words, sentences are the "reservoir-receptacles" of information.

Verbal expressions - sentences contain embedded information. When is the Subject-doer of the Verb : Perfect; Third Person; Singular; feminine; تَاء feminine marker; مصدر-نَفَادٌ Verbal noun; its signification is obvious that limited quantity of verbal expressions of Allah the Exalted did not empty their information while transferring it on papers by using water of the ocean as ink but the ocean added with water of smaller seven oceans lost its water.

It is thus evident that the density of information embedded in a limited number of expressions - sentences of Grand Qur’ān is virtually inexhaustible. Therefore, no reading of it is the final reading; no translation of it is the final and exhaustive translation; and no discussion ever runs it dry. Like its Author, we will always find it as a living book. This is one of the features that render a book great in timeline.

Grand Qur’ān is also described by an epithet: descriptive word added to name: a descriptive word or phrase added to or substituted for the name of somebody or something, highlighting a feature or quality : a verbal noun which signifies a saying that is a complete proposition, or a word signifying at least one complete proposition.

  • We have certainly rendered the Verbal Discourse: Qur’ān interwoven - a unified whole for them: people at large.

  • Objective of interweaving the Discourse is that they might reflexively perceive and retain it in memory, take lesson and relate. [28:51]

 

Like: limited quantity of verbal expressions, a verbal communication signified by: could either be light weighted or heavy weighted depending upon the density of information embedded therein. As we are told that the semantic density of information in the sentences of Qur’ān is infinite, it is also mentioned by reference to its epithet :

  • Certainly We will keep exposing upon you comprehensive-densely compacted statement. [73:05]

The greater the semantic density of information in a limited number of words and sentences, easier is it to translate, understand, comprehend, and reflect on that small number of words. It caters for the need of a man of ordinary or everyday prudence and the sensibilities of men of higher intellect, critical reasoning and pondering. It is rightly said that the truth does not need many words. The truth - infallible fact in itself is quite heavy, as told by Qur’ān. On the contrary, voluminous texts void of substance are weightless like the froth and scum.

A relevant question might be raised. Why, what was the need to densely embed  infinite information in just 6,236 Aa'ya'at: Unitary Verbal Passages of Qur’ān? But one can also ask why the Universe around us is sort of infinitely vast?

First we take the Qur’ān in hand and observe it. We observed that statistically it is certainly finite. All is in focus of our eyes and is countable. Now we go in the open and observe the universe over and around us. We observed it certainly finite; so small that entire universe is in the focus of our eyes. We observed the Earth all around spread like a carpet and saw the Sky as overarching canopy upon us touching boundary of the Earth. We saw the water descending from the Sky and it is causing sprouting of all sorts of plant kingdom which we are using for our subsistence and survival. We observed wholeness and orderliness in the sensible world and also noticed motion. This fact immediately gave us the realization that its existence, motion and functioning owes its origin; and is indivisibly the domain of a singular Sustainer Lord. We have observed it as small and as explicit as is the text of Qur’ān.

Later ask someone whom you consider a man of wisdom or organizations like NASA to describe the Universe. The answer might dazzle that it is infinitely vast, large and voluminous; and is always expanding. Therefore, we do not know about its ending boundaries. We will always be exploring it only to fail in comprehensively encompassing it. We will at every point in time be at the dead end - in closed tunnel.

This Universe perceived as infinite by us is embedded-blueprinted in 6,236 Unitary Verbal Passages of Qur’ān along with all relevant information about the Man for whom the physical world is created by the grace of the Fountain of Knowledge, the Sole Creator;  the Disseminator of Information for aright conduct and functioning of all that exists, the Sovereign Lord of the Universes, Allah the Exalted Ar'Reh'maan.

But the par excellence of its simplest text is the quantity of semantic information embedded in its limited vocabulary, unprecedented organization and sentence structuring strictly adhering to the grammar of Arabic for reader's convenience to comprehend. The embedded information is such that whatever we will observe with our eyes in the material-physical world we will be amazed to find it already written therein exactly in the manner we have seen that reality for the first time in human history. Thus, the Qur’ān will always be ahead of time. Evidence!

  • We will henceforth keep visually exposing Our tangible-physical realities prevalent in the Universe-horizons and in their own bodies to the eyes of those who do not accept the Qur’ān.

  • The purpose of this visual manifestation is that the fact of Qur’ān being Infallible Doctrine-Statement of Established Fact might become self evident-manifest for them. [41:53]

 

Wisdom is that acquisition of knowledge when the invisible of the matter and its relationships become perceivable through vision and intellect. However, the remote past-beginning and remote future is beyond our vision and perception. Notwithstanding what distance we could cover in the past-fossils and the future we can never say with confidence and certainty that we have reached, seen and perceived the things at the point of beginning or ending in future. We can never encompass/comprehend the matter in its entirety not only because of its extremely voluminous and diversified nature but also because we know the skies are expanding all the time. Therefore, if we manage to reach what we have determined today as its extremity, it would have gone farther the moment we reach the point we thought is the ending point. It is an endless pursuit; this is the limitation of our capability of vision and intellect. We will always end up in a closed street.

We need an external source of information originating from beyond the horizons of our universe to get us out of this perpetually existing closed street. Let us be happy and rejoice; we have amongst us the great man who is given the: :the unique - ultimate profundity. No relevant question will now remain unanswered; its vital aspects will be disclosed. We are now out of the closed tunnel. Time-Space is warped.

Grand Qur’ān informed that Allah the Exalted will henceforth keep bringing the physical realities about the universe and human body to the visual access of those who refuse to accept Qur’ān. Its objective is that the infallibility of text of Qur’ān might become self manifest to them. Why a first time observation of hitherto unseen fact manifests that the Qur’ān is a statement of proven fact? This is possible only if the same thing finds mention in the Qur’aan. Verbal specification and visual observation are two aspects of identification of a tangible fact of real existence as is denoted by Arabic word: physical-material reality: transmitter of information. The visual observation of an earlier unseen fact will manifest that book as the Infallible Book which was written earlier in time and contains verbal mirroring of the recently observed fact.

The knowledge about matter-physical world is verifiable in time and space. Whatever is said in a book regarding physical matters, it can be subjected to verification in time and space to an exact detail. The facts mentioned in the Qur’ān about the Universe and human body are in itself the falsification test of the Book.

A question of rather common sense that can take a man of ordinary prudence to the level of respected Plato, Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas is: Who is first in existence: the blueprint-the book or matter-physical existence?

Right you are; every particle, found divisible and analyzed to its solitary unit; which however cannot exist independently-self sustaining except in binary structure, leads us to believe in the existence of its blueprint-the book before this particle had taken physical appearance-existence.

Allah the Exalted informed the Leader of Humanity, the Elevated Messenger Muhammad Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam who magnanimously passed on this information verbally and in writing for the benefit of humanity regarding existence of elementary particles of matter in the Universe:

  • Know it; there is no engagement of you the Messenger [Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam] paying attention to an important matter, nor about that which you relate to people syllable by syllable from the miscellany of Qur'aan;

  • And nor you people perform an act except that We are constantly observing you when you are engaged in it.

  • And no element of a mass of sprinkled dot-speck present in the Earth nor that present in the Sky eludes from notice of your Sustainer Lord.

  • Know it neither existing genus of particles relatively diminutive in mass than the speck; nor genus of particles relatively greater than it —

  • But are inventoried in a book which is explicitly explicative—conveyor of information in succinct, individuated, distinct and crystallized manner.  [10:61]

 

 

 

 

 

  • And those: ruling elite who refused to accept said to people:

  • "The Terminating Moment will not come to us"

  • You the Messenger [Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam] pronounce: "No, that thought is false, I swear by  my Sustainer Lord, it is certain that it will definitely come to you. My Sustainer Lord is the Knower of the secreted-enfolded in future which is invisible to others.

  • Neither mass of a sprinkled dot-speck present in the Earth nor that present in the Sky eludes from His notice.

  • And neither a particle relatively diminutive than the speck nor that relatively greater than that —

  • But are inventoried in a book which is explicitly explicative—conveyor of information in succinct, individuated, distinct and crystallized manner. [34:03]

 

 

The information about the Elementary Particles of matter is in relation to the property of matter, its Mass. Alleviating the possibility that we might err in perceiving that it relates to comparison of only two entities of matter, it is elaborated and made crystal clear that there is a range - genus of elementary particles of lesser mass in the Universe than the sprinkled dot-speck-atom by narrating this information with choice of  similar words in different grammatical style - structure.

The breaking news in above two Ayahs is about the fact that all the Elementary Particles of negligible Mass otherwise invisible are distinctly recorded in explicit book in the sort of a Catalogue.

  • Moreover, there is no element existing in non-apparent state in the Sky and the Earth —

  • But is catalogued in a book which is explicitly explicative—conveyor of information in succinct, individuated, distinct and crystallized manner. [27:75]


  • And He the Exalted has caused each and all material things accounted for quantitatively-in numbers. [72:28]

  • And Our Majesty has rendered each and all material things elaborately enumerated, record in black and white. [78:29]

Therefore, the text of Qur’ān is the simplest text the world over; it is as conveniently understandable for a common man of ordinary - everyday prudence as he conveniently observes the universe around him simplistically.