Ha Mim

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Ha Mim is a pair of Arabic disjointed letters that appear at the beginning of several chapters (surahs) of the Qur’an as part of its mysterious opening letter combinations.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Ha Mim canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arabic letter combination
Quranic disjointed letters
mysterious letters in the Quran
appearsAtPosition beginning of surahs
appearsInSurah Surah Ad-Dukhan
Surah Al-Ahqaf
Surah Al-Jathiyah
Surah Ash-Shura
Surah Az-Zukhruf
Surah Fussilat
Surah Ghafir
appearsInText Quran
consistsOfLetter Ha
Mim
formsGroupWith Ha Mim surahs
hasAlternativeSpelling حم
Ḥā-Mīm
hasCategory Arabic linguistics
Islamic theology
Quranic studies
hasFirstLetterName Ha
hasFullyKnownMeaning no
hasInterpretationStatus subject of exegetical debate
hasLanguage Arabic
hasLetterCount 2
hasMysticalStatus yes
hasNumberOfSurahs 7
hasOrthographicType consonantal letters
hasQuranicTerm ḥurūf muqaṭṭaʿāt
hasReligiousTradition Islam
hasRole opening formula in the Quran
hasScriptDirection right-to-left
hasScripturalContext Quranic revelation
hasSecondLetterName Mim
hasTransliteration Ha Mim
Ḥā Mīm
isConsidered part of the Quranic text
isOftenGroupedWith Alif Lam Mim
Ta Sin Mim
linked to: Ta Sin
isRecitedAs separate letters
ḥā mīm
isSubsetOf disjointed letters of the Quran
mentionedInDiscipline tafsir
ulūm al-Qur’an
precedes main body of the surah
writtenForm حم
writtenInScript Arabic script

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Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Surah Fussilat hasOpeningLetters Ha Mim
subject linked to: Ha Mim Sajdah