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Glossary Entry

Tur

طور
Definition

Mount Sinai — the mountain where Allah spoke directly to Musa, gave him the Torah, and where Musa asked to see Allah. This mountain represents the pinnacle of divine-human communication, where Musa was granted a closeness no other prophet experienced in the same way.

As understood in the classical tradition of Ibn Kathir and the scholars of his school.

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