What the Qur'an Says to Every Human Being: A Linguistic Compilation of Passages with Explicit Universal Address

This work presents a bounded subset of the Qur'an (al-Qurʾān) consisting exclusively of passages in which God explicitly addresses all humanity. Using the Qur'an's own address markers—yā ayyuhā an-nās ("O humanity") and yā banī Ādam ("O children of Adam")—the compilation extracts and organizes verses that are universally addressed, without reference to belief affiliation, legal obligation, or communal identity. Unlike thematic or interpretive approaches, this project applies a strict linguistic criterion: only verses with explicit universal address are included; all believer-specific, community-specific, prophet-specific, or implied audiences are excluded. The extraction follows transparent boundary rules and employs the 1946 Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation for public domain compliance. The resulting corpus comprises 21 distinct passages totaling 88 extracted verses (92 verses presented including contextual background)—18 passages using yā ayyuhā an-nās and 3 using yā banī Ādam. Complete citation lists, descriptive statistics, and methodological documentation are provided in appendices to ensure full auditability. This work fills a methodological gap in Qur'anic studies by providing the first comprehensive, non-interpretive extraction based solely on the Qur'an's own linguistic markers. It offers scholars and general readers alike access to the portion of the Qur'an that speaks to shared human origin, dignity, moral responsibility, and accountability—presented exactly as addressed, without theological mediation. Version 1.1 – Correction Notice This version corrects a duplicate verse count in Version 1.0 arising from the double inclusion of Surah Al-Aʿrāf 7:158. The corrected totals are: eighty-eight (88) extracted universal-address verses, four (4) contextual background verses, for a total of ninety-two (92) verses. Appendix A has been correspondingly corrected. The corpus boundaries, selection criteria, extracted passages, and analytical conclusions remain unchanged.