 zabur () is, according to islam, the holy book of dawud (david), one of the holy books (or religious text) revealed by god before the qur'an, alongside others such as the tawrat (torah) of musa (moses) and the injil (gospel) of isa (jesus). some scholars equate the zabur with the biblical book of psalms. the term zabur could be either the arabic equivalent of the hebrew zimrah, meaning "song, music." which, along with zamir ("song"; "nightingale") and mizmor ("psalm"), is a derivative of zamar, meaning "singer, praiser, music maker or, of sipur (a story; an account) which could have also been heard pronounced as: sapur (with the linguistically-known phenomenon of interchangeable minimal pair sound of the voiceless & voiced letters: p & b, respectively, between hebrew & arabic)."theological wordbook of the old testament, vol. 1, pg. 245. among many christians in the middle east and in south asia, the word zabur (hindustani: Ø²Ø¨ÙÙØ± (nastaleeq), à¤à¤¼à¥à¤¬à¥à¤° (devanagari)) is used for psalms in the bible. ==introduction== the zabur of dawud (david) is referred to in the qur'an as one of god's books revealed to four selected messengers. the zabur is preceded by the taurat (torah) given to moses and followed by the injeel (gospel) given to jesus and finally the qur'an given to the islamic prophet, muhammad. according to islam, it has been there even since the time of adem (adam, who is considered the first human) and not beginning in the 7th century. the aqeedah (belief system) of islam is believed to be exactly the same in every single one of the four scriptures and several scrolls and is thought exactly the same by every prophet. considering this it can be assumed the theological aspects of the zabur be exactly the same as the qur'an. the sharia or laws of islam however are known to have changed slightly depending on the prophet of the time, although the sharia that is revealed in the qur'an is final till the end of time as there will be no prophet after muhammad, and no book after the qur'an. hence the laws of the zabur need not be exactly the same as what is islam of today (as in the sharia of the qur'an). ==mention of zabur in the qur'an== in the qur'an, the zabur is mentioned by name only three times. the qur'an i
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