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Can the new interpretation of the verse, "Indeed, performing prayers has been decreed upon the believers at specified times" – as meaning the funeral prayer for the deceased at the time of their death – be considered a Quranic miracle and officially recorded among the miraculous verses in the Holy Quran?

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Loving the Quran and contemplating its verses is a great virtue. There is no harm in benefiting from what others have produced to prove the miraculous nature of the Quran and Sunnah, provided that it is based on scientific facts and clear connections, not illusions. The verse: "Do you build on every elevation a sign, amusing yourselves? And do you take for yourselves palaces, hoping you will live forever?" [26:128-129] was revealed concerning the people of 'Ad. It is true that tampering with genes exists, but we should not impose on the Quran any meaning for which there is no clear connection between it and what is intended by Allah's words. As for the miracle of these verses, it is historical, for the locations of 'Ad, Thamud, and the people of Shu'ayb were discovered recently in the forms detailed by the Quran. Connecting "the companions of the right" and "the companions of the left" to the functions of the right and left brain hemispheres does not have a clear connection to prove scientific miracles; for the two hemispheres work in an integrated manner. And His (the Almighty's) saying: "Indeed, prayer has been decreed upon the believers a timed ordinance" [4:103] is in the context of the timings of the five daily prayers, and it does not include the funeral prayer; for the address is to the worshippers, and the deceased does not pray. One must be cautious about delving into the interpretation of Allah's words without knowledge, and read extensively from books of tafsir (exegesis).

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