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Are there reliable references that can be consulted to verify the accuracy of the number of words in the Quranic surahs and their classification into nouns, verbs, and particles?

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There are books that have focused on the number of words and letters in the surahs of the Holy Qur'an, such as "Surahs of the Qur'an, its Verses, Letters, and Revelation" by Al-Fadl ibn Shadhan, "Al-Bayan fi 'Add Ay al-Qur'an" by Abu Amr al-Dani, and "Basa'ir Dhawi al-Tamyiz" by Al-Fayruzabadi.

However, the easiest and most beneficial way to extract the particle, noun, and verb in the Qur'an is:

1. Personal effort in counting and extracting them. 2. Referring to detailed parsing books such as "I'rab al-Qur'an wa Bayanuhu" by Muhyi al-Din Darwish, and "Al-Jadwal fi I'rab al-Qur'an" by Mahmud Safi. 3. Referring to detailed morphology books such as "Al-Bayan fi Tasrif Mufradat al-Qur'an" by Ayman al-Shadhili.

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