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Tanzil (Arabic: تنزيل) "sending down", Inzal (Arabic: انزال) "bringing down", and nuzul (Arabic: نزول) "descending", and other words based on the triconsonantal Arabic root verb nazala^[1] (Arabic: نزل ) "to descend", refer to the Islamic belief in the descent of God's message from heaven to earth where it was revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

In the Quran forms of these words are found in verse Q 17:105:

• "And with the truth We have sent it [i.e., the Qur’ān] down, and with the truth it has descended." (Arabic: وَبِالْحَقِّ أَنْزَلْنَاهُ وَبِالْحَقِّ نَزَلَ wa-bi-l-ẖaqqi `anzalnahu wa-bi-l-ẖaqqi nazal).^[2]