Sunday, 9 March 2025

numbers after each verse

I tend to think: marking the end of verses is important,
not putting a number each time,
because the end-of-verse-sign imply the numbers.
I admit: there are two things that make is complicated
In Muṣḥaf al-Muḫallalātī the end-of-verse of all seven canonical systems are indicated, so the numbers are not that easily countable, but they are there.
In some maṣāḥif the same sign is use of end-of-verse and for an obligatory stop within a verse,
the "fake" ends not being counted in the number-of-verses given in the sura-title-box ‒ someting clear only to the experts.
Muhammad Hozien has (for the time being) established the first printed muṣḥaf with numbers after each verse: Istanbul 1298/1881
But
I still do not see the big difference to Hafez Osman, the Elder putting an ع at the end of each tenth verse and an عشر at the margin:
or Muḥammad Amīn Rušdī using the abjad ten: ے
above the last word of the tenth, twentieth, thirdith ... verse there is a ے
In the manuscript there were no numbers; they were added 1370/1951 for the ʿIrāqī State print.































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numbers after each verse

I tend to think: marking the end of verses is important, not putting a number each time, because the end-of-verse-sign imply the numbers. ...