Paper money at the time of the Companions of the cave?

Paper money at the time of the Companions of the cave?

18:19 And similarly, We raised them that they might question among them. Said a speaker among them, "How long have you remained?" They said, "We have remained a day or a part of a day." They said, "Your Lord knows best how long you have remained. So send one of you with this silver coin of yours (biwariqikum) to the city, and let him see which food is purest, and let him bring to you provision from it, and let him be cautious. And let no one be aware about you."

(The root of “wariqi” (silver coin) is “Waw-Ra-Qaf”, and some sources say that it literally means something flat, thin and light. This fits with today’s paper money, and a few translators have wrongly translated it as paper money, but paper money did not even exist in Arabia at the time of the Prophet (seventh century), so if the story in the Qur’an happened in the third century, the Verse could not refer to “paper money” anyhow, but It refers to “metal coins”, which are also flat, thin and light. This definition (“flat, thin and light”) might also be regarded as a prediction of paper money, because the same word was going to be used as “paper money” in later generations)(Another root dictionary says that the root “Waw-Ra-Qaf” means “to put forth leaves. waraqa – leaf, petal; sheet of paper; thin metal plate, leaf of sheet metal, card, stamped sheet, etc.”. So, the word can mean “metal coins”, because the coins are thin, like leaves; in addition, one of the meanings of “waraqa” explicitly defines it as “thin metal plate”. So, the Qur’an is correct)(And it is also correct because it is said that the story in Verse 18:19 refers to the time of Emperor Decius (Emperor from 249 AD to 251 AD). There are surviving silver coins with Decius’s face in them)(In conclusion, paper money did not even exist at the time of Muhammad; and the Qur’an is in the language of his people (14:4), so the Qur’an could have not used a word implying “paper money” in the third century anyhow, but that word implies “metal coins”. This conclusion is supported by root dictionaries. And that word could have originally implied “coins”, but dictionaries/people could have added it later, as “paper money”, because it is a later invention)(The meanings of “Waw-Ra-Qaf” have a “thin shape” in common, whether the material is a thin metal or a sheet of paper, etc. According to Hussein’s “My personal Qur’an”, “The root is W-R-Qaf and it means leaf of the trees and so on. The word is also conceptually used for any entity that is flat and thin and therefore can be used for the paper we write on, or any flat thin surface we write on as well as money whether coins or paper money”)(It is said that the Qur’an was revealed from 609 to 632 CE (seventh century). According to the article “Banknote” in wikipedia, “Paper currency first developed in Tang dynasty China during the 7th century (“notes in the form of receipts”), although true paper money did not appear until the 11th century, during the Song dynasty”. So, paper money was not used in Arabia at the time of the Prophet, but only in China, and after the Qu’ran was revealed)(Another point is that the Verse says “wariq” (silver coin), while the Verses implying “leaves / leaf” use the word “waraq”, which is other than “wariq”, both derived from the same root. The first paper money was made of wood, not “leaves”, so Verse 18:19 can only refer to “silver coins”, rather than “paper money made of wood”)(According to the article “Paper money, a Chinese invention?” by Coralie Boeykens (Museum guide from the “Museum of the National Bank of Belgium”), in regard to “paper” (not paper money), she said, “The first traces of paper date back to the 2nd half of the 1st century BC but then it was not used as writing material. For their traditional calligraphy with brushes they used linen, hemp, bamboo (cane) and bark of the mulberry tree. Important progress has been made between the 2nd and 4th century AD: Thanks to the use of soaked bast of the mulberry the quality of the pulp significantly improved and paper became less heavy”)(In regard to “paper money”, Coralie Boeykens said that “In the travel accounts of the Venetian traveler Marco Polo the reader becomes familiar with the fascinating world of paper money production. This money has been put into circulation during the Yuan period by the Mongol chief Kublai Khan (1214-1294). Paper money is made there from the sapwood of the mulberry tree”)(Allah knows best)

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