The Quran’s Enormous 19-based Mathematical Composition

The Quran’s Enormous 19-based Mathematical Composition

The Quran states in verses 74:30-31 that there are 19 angels who are keepers or custodians of the Hellfire, and that their number (the number 19) is destined to someday, somehow serve as a trial for the disbelievers, as well as a tool for the People of the Book (Jews and Christians) to attain certainty and remove doubt from their hearts, and a tool to increase the faith of those who are already believers.

To shorten the wording a little, these two verses essentially say that the number 19 will confirm the Quran and Islam, and all other past scriptures sent before the Quran, as the truth beyond any doubt, thus creating certainty in the hearts of the people.

Yet to this day, the Islamic community has not made a serious effort to discover exactly how the number 19 will fulfill its destined role. The only reason that we know exactly how the number 19 will do its aforementioned functions is because someone in 1974 only incidentally made this discovery when he entered the Quran into a computer for a project unrelated to number 19.

[74:30] Over it (the Fire) are nineteen.

[74:31] We have made not but angels as custodians of
the Fire, and We have not assigned “iddatahum” (their number, i.e. the number 19) except as: (1) a trial for those who have disbelieved, (2) for those who were given the Book may attain certainty, (3) and that those who believed may increase in faith, and that those given the Book—as well as the believers—may not doubt, (4) and that the ones who have sickness within their hearts—as well as the disbelievers—may say, “What did God intend with this example?” Like that, God sends astray whom He wills, and guides whom He wills; none knows the soldiers of your Lord except He. It is but a reminder for humanity.

Most commentators of the Quran believe that the number 19 refers
to the 19 angels guarding over Hell. While that is technically true, the fact that there are 19 angels in Hell does nothing to increase the faith of any believer who already believes in the absolute authority of God, which is where these 19 angels derive their authority from; nor is it enough to erase any doubt and bring certainty to the hearts of Muslims or People of the Book (Jews and Christians).

Atheists, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, and others would respond that no
inherent quality about the 19 angels prove anything to them about why Islam is the truth compared to the hundreds of religions and ideologies that exist. They may doubt that those 19 angels even exist because of their belief that the Quran is a false book made by a liar who falsely claims to be a prophet.

To learn what verse 74:31 truly means, let’s start with this example: let’s say that the U.S. has 10,000,000 nuclear bombs at their disposal, and someone says, “Their number (the number 10,000,000) is a serious warning sign to China.”

Or someone says, “The number of nuclear bombs (the number 10,000,000) in possession by the U.S. is a serious warning sign for Russia.”

Grammatically, that person is saying that the number 10,000,000 itself is a warning sign for Russia and China, because “their number” is the number 10,000,000.

The only reason in this scenario that the number 10,000,000 would be a serious warning sign for Russia or China is because it is the number of nuclear bombs in American possession.

Likewise, when the Quran states that the NUMBER of the angels guarding over Hell will somehow bring certainty, erase doubt, and increase the faith of people, it’s saying that the number 19 itself somehow will vindicate Islam and confirm its authenticity beyond a doubt.

That is because the verse 74:31 said, “their number” (the number of angels over Hell) will increase faith and certainty, and remove doubt one day. And “their number” is the number 19.

So we have to ask ourselves, in what way will the number 19 do its Quranically-
destined role of confirming beyond a doubt that Islam is the truth? How will the number 19 fulfill this prophecy?

It was an open question until someone discovered the answer back in 1974. Before 1974, nobody entertained the idea that the number 19 will one day vindicate Islam as the truth.

In the Quran, God tells the people that if they are in doubt, they should come produce a Surah like that which is in the Quran, which people will not be able to do. People have, I think erroneously, interpreted the challenge to mean producing something with the same literary quality as the Quran. However, producing a piece of work that rivals the Quran’s literary excellence is easier than eating a piece of cake, because one just needs to add a few extra verses to any or even all Surahs of the Quran and they can technically claim that they have created a literary rival.

How do you create a book like the Quran if the challenge is only about literary excellence? Just copy and paste the whole Quran, then delete a few verses here and there, then add fake ones, and the challenge has been met.

But in 1974, Dr. Rashad Khalifa, an Egyptian-American biochemist, discovered not only that the entire Quran is mathematically composed based on the number 19, but that the mathematical composition is so vast and complex that even adding a single verse anywhere will cause dozens of disruptions to its mathematical composition.

He has spent 16 years after that (from 1974 to his eventual assassination in 1990) discovering aspects of the Quran’s mathematical composition one after another, and yet, due to how intricate the mathematical system is, it is possible that even to this day, many features remain undiscovered.

Before we get into unveiling what is the Quran’s ultimate proof of its authenticity, one may theorize why the number 19 may have been chosen, out of all numbers.

To begin with, it is a prime number, and prime numbers symbolize God’s
oneness because those numbers are only divisible by itself (which produces the number one) and the number one.

Second, the gematric value of the word “one” in the scriptural languages we know of (Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic) is 19, and the prime commandment of all the scriptures is to recognize the oneness of God.

Third, it has the first and last nonzero numeral, representing God’s attribute in Quran verse 57:3 (and frankly all monotheistic religions that believe in an everlasting God) as “the First and the Last”.

Al-Fatiha: Mathematical Composition of the Quran’s First Surah

So let us now start with the Quran’s 19-based composition. The Quran has 114 Surahs (19 x 6).

The first Surah (Surah Fatiha) is the only Surah whose entirety is a prayer from the believers to God. The rest of the Quran is entirely in God’s point of view. By reciting this prayer, we fulfill a number of commandments from God in the Quran (such as the command to pray to God, the command to praise and glorify God, the command to ask him for help and worship God alone, the command to seek God’s guidance, the command to call on God by His names).

It happens to be the case that this Surah by itself has an immense 19-based mathematical composition. If you see the term “GV” anywhere, it refers to gematric value, which is like the Latin version of Roman numerals. Each Arabic letter before the current number system had a number assigned to it, and that’s
known as gematria or Abjad numerals. For example, the letter
Alif represented 1, Ba represented 2, and so on.

This research is taken from Beyond Probability: Part 2 by Faiz Curim and Lisa
Spray. Lisa Spray was a close companion of Rashad and published this in 2018 as a continuation of his work. Here are just 14 facts taken from her book, which lists 68 in total, regarding Surah Fatiha’s 19-based mathematical composition:

  • Fact 1: Combining (not adding) Surah number (1) number of verses (7), and words in the Surah (29): 1 7 29 = 19 x 91, also 1 + 7 + 2 + 9 = 19 when adding digits.
  • Fact 2: Combining Surah number (1) and GV (gematric value) of the Surah (10143): 1 10143 = 19 x 5797
  • Fact 3: Combining Surah number (1), number of verses (7), letters (139), and GV of the Surah (10143): 1 7 139 10143 = 19 x 90205797
  • Fact 4: Combining Surah number (1) and the number of every verse in the Surah: 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 = 19 x 591293
  • Fact 5: Combining Surah number (1) and the number of letters in every verse: 1 19 17 12 11 19 18 43 = 19 x 6272169010097
  • Fact 6: Combining the number of letters in each of the 7 verses in reverse order: 43 18 19 11 12 17 19 = 19 x 2272732164301
  • Fact 7: Combining Surah number (1), number of verses (7), and number of words in each of the 7 verses: 1 7 4 4 2 3 4 3 9 = 19 x 9180181
  • Fact 8: Combining the Surah number, followed by the number of letters in every verse, followed by the GV (gematrical value) of each verse: 1 19(786) 17(581) 12(618) 11(241) 19(836) 18(1072) 43(6009) = 19 x
    630453556901377953901044009530128211
    • Same as Fact 8 but combined backwards, from the last verse to the first: (6009)43 (1072)18 (836)19 (241)11 (618)12 (581)17 (786)19 1 = 19 x 3162858459046506275848220066216725589
    • Same as Fact 8 but with the insertion of the verse numbers: 1 1 (19 786) 2 (17 581) 3 (12 618) 4 (11 241) 5 (19 836) 6 (18 1072) 7 (436009) = 19 x 5893611671480592728480218525455884775128211
  • Fact 9: Combining Surah number (1), the number of verses in the Surah (7), the first verse number (1), the number of letters in the first verse (19), and the individual GV of every letter in first verse. This is followed by the same data for verse 2, then verse 3 and so on until verse number 7. The data in bold for verse 1 is replaced by the data for verse 2, then 3, then 4, then 5, then 6, then 7 and all of it is combined together. The resulting number is made up of 274 digits and is also a multiple of 19.
  • Fact 10: Combining Surah number (1), number of the first verse (1), and number of words in the first verse: 1 1 4 = 19 x 6 (Number of Surahs in the Quran).
  • Fact 11: Combining Surah number (1), number of verses (7), total number of letters of the Surah (139), the number of the first verse (1), the number of words in the first verse (4), and the number of letters in the first verse (19): 1 7 139 1 4 19 = 19 x 902060, also the total of those numbers is 1 + 7 + 139 + 1 + 4 + 19 = 171 = 19 x 9
  • Fact 12: Surah (1) + number of verses (7) + number of words in first verse (4) + the number of letters in the first verse (19) + the GV of the first verse (786): 1 + 7 + 4 + 19 + 786 = 817 = 19 x 43
  • Fact 13: Combining Surah (1), number of verses (7), number of the first verse (1), number of words in the first verse (4), number of letters in first verse (19), and GV the first verse (786): 1 7 1 4 19 786 = 19 x 9022094
  • Fact 14: Combining the verse number of the first verse in Surah Fatiha (1), the number of letters (19), and the number of letters in each word of it individually (3 4 6 6): 1 19 3466 = 19 x 19 x 19 x 174

Mathematical Composition of the Quran’s Bismillahs

The Bismillah is a phrase in the Quran that means, “In the name of God, the Almighty, the Merciful”. It is verse 1 of the first Surah (al-Fatiha), and verse 0 (also known as an unnumbered verse) in all the other Surahs. The Bismillah e is absent from Surah 9 entirely. There is an extra Bismillah in verse 27:30 to make up for the absent Bismillah in Surah 9.

God in the Quran states that He is in charge of its compilation (75:19), thus this seemingly strange way to arrange the Bismillahs in the Quran was done intentionally by God.

We now know that the arrangement of the Bismillahs was done intentionally as part of the Quran’s 19-based mathematical design.

So let us now explore the mathematical properties of the Bismillah as it relates to the rest of the Quran, courtesy of Dr. Khalifa’s research. I will explain later why I put asterisks (**) on certain bullet points:

  • There are 112 Bismillahs which are the unnumbered verses (also known as verse 0, or Quranic prefixes) of each Surah of the Quran, and one that is verse 1 of the first Surah. Surah 9 is missing a Bismillah entirely. There is an extra Bismillah found in verse 27:30, to make the total number of Bismillahs as 114 (19 x 6).  
  • There are 19 Surahs from the missing Bismillah in Surah 9 to the extra one found in Surah 27 (both Surahs inclusive).
  • The extra Bismillah is found in Surah 27, verse 30, and 27 + 30 = 57, or 19 x 3.
  • The number of Arabic words from the first Bismillah in Surah 27 (verse 0) to the second one in verse 30 of the same Surah is 342, or 19 x 18.
  • The number 342 the same number obtained if we add all the Surah numbers from Surah 9 (with the missing Basmalah) through Surah 27. So we add 9+10+11+…. 25+26+27 = 342 (19 x 18).
  • **The number of verses containing the word Allah (God) from the missing Bismillah to the extra Bismillah is 513 (19 x 27), and 27 happens to be the Surah that the extra Bismillah is found.
  • **The Quran contains 6234 numbered verses, and 112 unnumbered (verse 0) Bismillahs, that makes 6346 total Quranic verses when you count the unnumbered ones (19 x 334, also 6 + 3 + 4 + 6 = 19).
  • **Surah 9 (where there is a missing Bismillah) is an odd-numbered Surah with an odd number of verses. By adding the digits of the Surah numbers and the digits of the number of verses of the odd-numbered Surahs with odd-numbered verses from the missing Bismillah to the extra Bismillah (for example, Surah 11 has 123 verses, so you add 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 3 and do the same for the rest), the total is 114 (19 x 6).
  • **If the number of every Surah is followed by the last digit of each verse number in each Surah, and this is done with all the Surahs ranging from the missing Bismillah of Surah 9 to the extra Bismillah in verse 27:30, the resulting 1988-digit number is a multiple of 19
  •  When we combine the Surah numbers and the verses numbers where each Bismillah (numbered and unnumbered) occurs, then add the combinations, the result is a multiple of 19. For example, Surah 1 has a Bismillah at verse 1 so the combination is 11. Surah 2 has an unnumbered (verse 0) Bismillah, so the combination is 20. Surah 9 is skipped entirely since its Bismillah is missing, and Surah 27 is done twice since there is an extra Bismillah (270 and 2730), and so on until 1140 (Surah 114 with the unnumbered – or verse 0 – bismillah) is reached. By adding the combinations, the result is 68,191 (19 x 3589). If this is only done with even numbers, the result is also a multiple of 19 (35,131 = 19 x 1849). If only done with odd numbers, the result is 33,060 (19 x 1740).
  • **The total number of Quranic verses (excluding the unnumbered ones) from the missing Bismillah to the extra Bismillah, added to the sum of their verse numbers, gives 119624, or 19 x 6296. If you add 119624 to the sum of the Surah numbers from the missing to the extra Bismillah (9 + 10 + 11 + 12…+27) you get 119966 (19 x 6314).
  • **There are four words in the Bismillah, and they are: Bism (In the name), Allah (God), Al-Rahman (the Almighty), Al-Raheem (the Merciful). Bism is an unusual spelling of the word Ism, which will be explained later. But the word Ism occurs 19 times in the Quran, the word Allah occurs 2698 (19 x 142) times in the Quran, the word Al-Rahman occurs 57 (19 x 3) times in the Quran, and the word Al-Raheem occurs 114 (19 x 6) times in the Quran (disregarding unnumbered verses).
    • **If we add the factors of 19 of the occurrences of Ism, Allah, Al-Rahman, and Al-Raheem (1, 142, 3, and 6 respectively) in the Quran, we get 152 (19 x 8).The four words occur in 1919 (19 x 101) Quranic verses altogether. Also, they occur in 88 different Quranic Surahs altogether, so if 1919 and 88 are added to the GV of the Bismillah which contains those four words (786), the result is 2793 (19 x 147)
    • If we combine the Surah and verse number of each occurrence of Ism, without repeating the Surah number if there are multiple occurrences in the same Surah, the result is 5 4 6 118 119 121 138 22 28 34 36 40 49 11 55 78 56 74 96 69 52 73 8 76 25 87 1 15 96 1 which is a multiple of 19.
    • The unusual spelling of the Arabic word Ism, “Bism” occurs in verses 1:1, 11:41, and 27:30. If we add the number of occurrences (3) with the Surah and verse numbers of those occurrences (1 + 1 + 11 + 41 + 27 + 30) we get 114 (19 x 6).
    • **The number of verses from the first unusual spelling (1:1) to the second (11:41) is 1520 = 19 x 80. The number of verses from the second unusual spelling (11:41) to the third at verse 27:30 is 1691 (19 x 89). The number of verses from the third unusual spelling to the end of the Quran is 3135 (19 x 165), each including the unnumbered Bismillahs. Thus, the three unusual spellings actually divide (mathematically) the Quran into three parts.

Simple Facts

Let’s take a breather and look at some simpler facts.

  • There are 30 unique whole numbers mentioned in the Quran (i.e., 1 God, 2 brothers, 7 heavens … etc.), If we add the 30 numbers, we get a total of 162146 = 19 x 8534. With repetitions, the number of times those numbers occur in the Quran is 285 (19 x 15).
    • The Quran uses very weird phrasing to describe how long Noah lived among his people, and the number of years the people who hid in the cave mentioned in Surah 18 remained. Verse 29:14 says that Noah lived among his people “1000 years, except 50 years”. Verse 18:25 stated that the people who hid in the cave stayed “300 years, and added 9”. Why wasn’t it simply said, “950”, or “309” years? Likely because if it did, then the number of repetitions would have decreased to 283, and the sum of all unique numbers mentioned would have increased to 163055, none of which are a multiple of 19.
  • **The word Allah occurs in the Quran 2698 times = 19 x 142.
    • **The sum of the verse numbers where “Allah” is found is 118123 (19 x 6217).The sum of all occurrences of the word “Allah” in all verses whose numbers are a multiple of 19 are 133 (19 x 7)
    • **The sum of the occurrences of the word Allah in the verses whose numbers are not multiples of 19 are 117990 (19 x 6210)
    • **There are 85 Surahs where the word Allah occurs. When the numbers of all 85 Surahs are added, plus the number of verses from the first verse to the last verse that “Allah” occurs, the result is 8170 (19 x 430).
  • **If we add the numbers assigned to all Surahs, plus the numbers assigned to all of the verses, plus the number of verses in the Quran, the total is 346199 = 19 x 19 x 959.
    • If we look at the Surahs containing letters known as “Quranic initials” separately and add the Surah numbers, the numbers assigned to the verses, and the number of verses, the total is 190133 = 19 x 10007. **It thus follows that the total for the un-initialed Surahs, 156066, is also divisible by 19.
    • **If we do the same calculation for all 114 Surahs but we don’t add the Surah numbers in the total, the sum will be 339644 (19 x 17876)
  • There is a correlation between the number 19, number 8, number 98, and “al-Bayyinah” (Arabic for “the proof”), as if to indicate that number 19 is a proof from God:
    • Surah 19, being the 19th Surah, has the longest Quranic initial of all the Surahs (K.H.Y.A.S), and the five Arabic letters in this initial appear a total of 798 times (19 x 42).
    • Surah 19 has 98 verses, and the word “God” appears 8 times in it.
    • Surah 98 is titled “al-Bayyinah” (The Proof) and has 8 verses.
    • The number 98 is the gematrical value of the word “al-Bayyinah”.
    • The number 19 happens to be the 8th prime number.
    • Number 19 is mentioned undefined in verse 74:30 (it says that Hell would have 19 of something over it, but doesn’t specify what that something is). Number 8 is also undefined in verse 69:17 (says that eight will carry God’s throne on Judgment Day, but doesn’t explicitly define what eight is, and it’s the only verse that mentions “eight” that doesn’t immediately define what it is). We only know from looking at the verse that comes after 74:30, and the words before the mention of “eight” in verse 69:17, to know what they are referring to. And 69+17+74+30 = 190 (19 x 10). 

Quranic Initials

There are 14 Quranic initials in the Quran. Quranic initials are the random letters that are in the first verse of 29 Quranic Surahs (though only one of the 14 initials is in the second verse of one of the 29 Surahs). Those 14 initials are made of 14 unique Arabic letters.

To use an example, imagine if the first verse of a poem were the letters E G U L Those letters don’t make any English word, so one would ask why they are there.

Some examples of Quranic initials are: Alif Lam Meem, Ha Meem, Saad, Kaaf Ha Ya Ayn Saad, Alif Lam Ra, Qaf, and Ya Seen. Nobody, not even prophet Muhammad, knew why they were there, and the consensus until now is that God knows best.

It wasn’t until 1974 when the 19-based mathematical composition of the Quran was discovered, that we realized exactly how these initials serve as the signs of the Quran. Essentially, it is a part of the whole 19-based design, and this section is devoted to demonstrating that.

  • Within the 114 Surahs of the Quran, 29 of them begin with Quranic initials. Intermixed between the first initialed Surah (Surah 2) and the last initialed Surah (Surah 68) are 38 non-initialed Surahs = 19 x 2.
  • In this same group of Surahs, from Surah 2 to Surah 68, there are 19 alternating sets of initialed and non-initialed Surahs.
  • The total number of verses making up this group of Surah is 5263 = 19 x 277.
  • **Within this group of Surahs there are also 2641 occurrences of the word Allah, or 19 x 139. Of course, that leaves 57 = 19 x 3, occurrences of Allah outside of this group.
  • **If we add the Surah and verse numbers of the 57 occurrences of the word Allah outside the initialed section, we find the total is 2432 = 19 x 128.

Alongside the information mentioned in the above lists, there are additional ways that the Quranic initials are a part of the mathematical 19-based design of the Quran. Some facts will have triple asterisk (***) and I will explain why later.

  • ***Let’s take each of the 14 initials, add their number of occurrences in the initialed Surahs, add the sum of the Surah numbers where that initial occurs, and you do the same for all 14 Surahs. Like for example, the initial Alif occurs in the beginning of 13 Surahs. Adding their Surah numbers would give 2+3+7+10+11+12+13+14+15+29+30+31+32 is 209. If you add 209 with 13 (the number of occurrences of this initial) you would get the number 222. And doing this calculation for all 14 Quranic initials would give 2033 (19 x 107).
  • ***Also, if we add the Surah numbers where the initials occur, plus the number of letters in each initial (with repetition), plus the number of verses that contains a Quranic initial, we get a multiple of 19. For instance, both Surah 2 and 3 are initialed with Alif, Lam, Meem. We can add 2 (Surah 2) + 3 (Surah 3) + 3 (the number of letters in the initial for Surah 2) + 3 (the number of letters in the initial for Surah 3) + 1 (the number of verses containing a Quranic initial for Surah 2) + 1 (the number of verses containing a Quranic initial for Surah 3) and we do the same for all other initialed Surahs. The grand total is 931 (19 x 49). If we were to switch it up and multiply (instead of add) the Surah numbers with the number of letters in the initials they contain, and add the products, and then add the total number of verses that contain a Quranic initial, we get a multiple of 19 as well.
  • If we add the Surah number of a Surah that contain a Quranic initial, with the number of verses in that Surah and the GV (gematric value) of the Quranic initial that is in that Surah, and we repeat this for all of the Surahs containing a Quranic initial and take the grand total, the result is 7030 (19 x 370). Once again, if we switch it up and instead multiply the Surah number of an initialed Surah with the number of verses in that Surah, and afterwards add the GV of the initial in that Surah to that product, then repeat this for all of the initialed Surahs and take the grand total, the result would be 63536 (19 x 3344).
  • There are 14 Arabic letters altogether that make the Quranic initials. If we add the GV of each of those Arabic letters with the number of the very first Surah in which that letter appears in a Quranic initial, we get 988 (19 x 52). For example, Alif is one of the letters in a Quranic initial. The very first initial in which it appears in the Quran is Surah 2, as the initial “Alif Lam Meem”. The GV of Alif is 1. So we are adding 2 + 1, and this is done for all 14 letters.
  • ***And if we add the sum of numbers of the Surahs and verses where the Quranic initials are found, the frequency of occurrence of all the letters in every initial in the Surahs that they occur, the number of the first sura where each initial occur, and the number of the last sura where each initial occur, produces a total that is 44232, or 19×2348. So the letter Alif is a Quranic initial, and it occurs in verses 2:1 (4502 times in Suran 2), 3:1 (2521 times in Surah 3), 7:1 (2529 times in Surah 7) and so on. So you add 2 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 7 + 1 + 4502 + 2521 + 2529 so on, and you add to that total the numbers 2 and 32 (the first and last Surahs where the Quranic initial Alif occurred) and you do this for each of the 14 Quranic initials to get 44232 (19×2348).
  • ***If you add the frequency of each Quranic initial in the Surahs which they occur, plus the Gematric Value (GV) of the Surahs which they occur, the result will be 1089479 (19 x 57341). For example, Surah 50 has the initial “Qaaf” and that letter occurs in Surah 50 exactly 57 times, and the GV of Surah 50 is 5700, so you add 57 with 5700, and do the same with the rest of the initialed Surahs.

Now it is time to examine some interesting data regarding the individual Quranic initials.

The Initial Qaaf

The letter Qaaf is one of the Quranic initials, and it occurs only in Surah 42 and Surah 50.

  • The total amount of the letter Qaaf in Surah 50 is 57 (19 x 3).
  • Surah 42 is also initialed with a Qaaf, and the number of Qaaf in that Surah is also 57 (19 x 3).
  • Surah 42 has 53 verses (42 + 53 = 95, 19 x 5), and Surah 50 has 45 verses (50 + 45 = 95, 19 x 5)
  • There are 14 different Arabic letters that form 14 different Quranic initials that prefix 29 Surahs of the Quran. 14 + 14 + 29 = 57 (19 x 3).
  • One interesting fact is that the number of Qaaf in all the verses numbered 19 totals 76 (19 x 4).

The Initial Ya Seen

This Quranic initial set is found at the beginning of Surah 36. The number of times that these two letters appear in this Surah is 285 = 19 x 15.

The Initial Haa Meem

This Quranic initial set is found initializing seven consecutive Surahs: Surahs 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, and 46. The total occurrence of Haa and Meem in the seven Surahs is 2147 = 19 x 113.

  • The frequency of the letters Haa and Meem in Surah 40 is 380 and 64 respectively. In Surah 41 it is 276 and 48 respectively. In Surah 42 it is 300 and 53 respectively. Adding 380 + 64 + 276 + 48 + 300 + 53 will give 1121 (19 x 59). Not only that, but if you add the digits of the numbers 380, 64, 276, 48, 300, and 53, you get 3 + 8 + 0 + 6 + 4 + 2 + 7 +6 + 4 + 8 + 3 + 0 + 0 + 5 +3, you get the number 59, corresponding to the total frequency of Haa and Meem in these three Surahs (19 x 59 = 1121).
  • Doing the same calculation for Surahs 43, 44, 45, and 46 will give a total frequency of Haa and Meem as 1026 (19 x 54), and adding the digits of the frequency will give a total of 54.
  • The same calculation done for Surahs 41, 42, and 43 will give a total frequency of Haa and Meem as 1045 (19 x 55) and adding the digits of the frequency will give the number 55.
  • And lastly, the same calculation done for Surahs 40, 44, 45, and 46 will give a total frequency of Haa Meem as 1102 (19 x 58), and adding the digits of that frequency will give the number 58.
  • So we know from this that even a single false addition of the letters Haa and Meem in this group of Surahs would destroy this intricate mathematical system.

The Initial Ayn Seen Qaaf

Surah 42 is the only Surah with a set of initials (Haa Meem) in the first verse and another (Áyn Seen.Qaaf) in the second verse.

No other Surah has a Quranic initial in its second verse. One of the calculations that I put a *** sign on relies on all the initialed Surahs having their Quranic initials in a single verse, except Surah 42 which relies on Quranic initials occurring in two verses for the calculation to be valid.

The total number of times the letters Ayn, Seen, and Qaf occur in Surah 42 is 209 = 19 x 11.

The Initial Kaaf, Ha, Ya, Ayn, Saad

This set of initials is found in Surah 19 only.

The total occurrences of the five letters in these Surahs is 798 (19 x 142).

The Initial Alif, Lam, Meem

This set of initials is found in six Surahs. The occurrences of the three letters in these six Surahs is in total 19874 (19 x 1046) as per the most recently-updated count (from 2002) from research headed by Rashad Khalifa’s brother, Dr. Atef Khalifa.

He confirmed Rashad’s count of all initials except those with Alif and Lam in it. Atef Khalifa attributed Rashad’s errors to difficulties in counting the letter Alif, and human error. The results of the study can be found at www.submission.org/miracle.html.

There is also an interactive computer program called Quran Inspector (found at submission.org/QI) in which the letters corresponding to the Quranic initials in all initialed Surahs are all color-coded and counted, making it easy to visually verify the count.

The Quran Inspector tool also has other features such as a calculator that divides long numbers by 19, multiple translated languages of the Quran, and the cumulative frequency of the word “Allah” with each successive verse (with color-coding in the initialed Surahs).

The Initial Alif, Lam, Ra

This set of initials is found in five Surahs.

The total occurrences of the three letters in these Surahs is 9481 (19 x 499) as per the most recently-updated recount by Atef Khalifa in 2002.

The Initial Alif, Lam, Meem, Ra

This set initials is found in Surah 13 only.

The total occurrences of the four letters in these Surahs is 1482 (19 x 78) as per the most recently-updated recount by Atef Khalifa in 2002.

The Initial Alif, Lam, Meem, Saad

This set initials is found in Surah 13 only.

The total occurrences of the four letters in these Surahs is 5301 (19 x 279) as per the most recently-updated recount by Atef Khalifa in 2002.

The Initial Saad

This initial is found in Surah Surahs 7, 13 and 38 only.

Surah 7 is initialed with Alif Lam Meem Saad. Surah 19 is Kaaf Ha. Ya Ayn Saad. Surah 38 is initialed with Saad alone.

The total occurrences of the letter Saad in these three Surahs is 152 = 19 x 8.

The letter Saad is unique in that its letter count represents an interlocking relationship between three Surahs with different initial sets that contain the initial Saad.

The Initials Ta Ha, Ta Seen, and Ta Seen Meem

Surah 20 has the Quranic initial set “Ta Ha”.

Surahs 26 and 28 has the Quranic initial set “Ta Seen Meem”

Surah 27 is prefixed with “Ta Seen”.

Altogether the frequency of those letters in these Surahs is 1592, which is not a multiple of 19.

However, if you add the frequency of the letter “Ha” in Surah 19 (175) to this count, because Surah 19’s initial set contains the initial “Ha”, the result is 1767 (19 x 93).

So this is the second instance where there is an interlocking relationship between Quranic initials.

The Initial Noon

The Quranic initial “Noon” is found in Surah 68 only.

The total occurrences of the letter Noon in this Surahs is 133 = 19 x 7.

Contrary to what is thought today, this Quranic initial is the only one where the Arabic letter is spelled out with other Arabic letters, rather than written alone.

It is like if someone spelled out the letter D with the letters “d e e” rather than simply writing the letter D. It is the case that this Quranic initial “Noon” is spelled out with the letters “Noon waw noon”.

If the letter “Noon” wasn’t spelled out as “Noon waw Noon” in Surah 68, the count would be 132 which is not a multiple of 19.

The Quran copies we have today do not spell out this Quranic initial and just write it as the standalone letter Noon in verse 68:1 because they are based solely on “riwayat” (methods of recitation).

The “riwayat” of the Quran is several different recitations of the Quran that were orally transmitted. Examples of riwayat include Hafs, Warsh, ad-Duri, Qalun, etc.

If copies of the Quran are mainly written based on what the oral recitation sounds like, then the initial “Noon” will sound exactly same when recited, whether it is a standalone letter or spelled out with Arabic letters.

Some might say, “But the oldest copies of the Quran don’t seem to have the initial Noon spelled out.”

That may be true, but one of oldest available written copies of the Quran (the Tashkent Quran, which is a copy of the standard version of the Quran as ordered by Uthman, the third Caliph of the Islamic Empire) has hundreds of differences compared to today’s standard Quran copies. Those differences include adding letters and words, deleting letters and words, and even switching some letters with others. The modern copies of the Quran were produced after making those corrections to the original Uthmanic text.

You can see the visual comparison between today’s copies and the Tashkent copy here: https://submission.org/verify_preserving_and_protecting_Quran.html

That means if the oldest Quran copies, such as the Tashkent Quran, have the letter Noon written as a standalone letter, it might just be one more scribal error among the hundreds that were already corrected when making the modern standard editions.

Also another indication that the Quranic initial “Noon” is spelled out as “Noon waw noon” is in verse 21:87. Here, God refers to the prophet Jonah as “Dhan-Noon” (which means possessor of the letter Noon). That’s because the Arabic version of the name Jonah (Yunus) has the letter “Noon” in the name. The letter “Noon” in this title given to Jonah is spelled out as “Noon waw noon” rather than a standalone letter Noon.

Islamic scholars believe that this title for Jonah (Dhan-Noon) means “person of the fish” as a guess for what this mysterious term could mean. But in reality, the spelling “nun waw noon” does not spell any known Arabic word, and is most certainly not the Quranic term for fish. The Quran actually refers to Jonah in Surah 68 as “sahib il-hoot (Companion of the Fish)”. The term “hoot” means fish in the Quran, not “Noon”.

So, we can be quite confident that “Dhan-Noon” means one who possesses letter “Noon”, referring to the prophet Jonah who has the letter Noon in his name. Therefore, verified Quranic precedent exists to spell out the letter noon as “Noon waw noon”.

Also, I put a triple asterisk sign (***) next to four of the calculations in this article. Those calculations would be invalidated if the letter Noon was not spelled out in verse 68:1.

Two False Verses

Rashad Khalifa also made the stunning discovery when he was alive that verses 9:128-129 are actually false verses.

I will discuss possible external evidence in another article, but the reason why I put a double asterisk sign (**) on some facts of the 19-based mathematical composition previously is because those facts would not be true if verses 9:128 and 9:129 were added to the calculation.

I put a ** sign on around 18 of the individual facts that I mentioned previously in this article, but there are more than 70 total facts, or parts, of the mathematical composition that would be false if verses 9:128-129 were added of the Quran.

Let us examine the vast mathematical evidence showing that those two verses are fabrications that do not belong in the Quran. Remember, all the 50+ calculations below do not include the 18 calculations higher up in this article that I put a ** sign on:

The total occurrence of the word “Allah” from the beginning of the Quran to Surah 9, where the suspect verses are, is 1273 (19 x 67). If the verse 9:129 is added, it would be 1274. 

I already mentioned previously that in the 29 Surahs containing Quranic initials, the total number of verses that the word “Allah” occurs in is a multiple of 19. It also turns out that in the 85 uninitialed Surahs, the number of verses that “Allah” occurs in is 1045 (19 x 55), but if the two suspect verses are added, the number would be 1046 (not a multiple of 19). 

If we write down the Surah number, followed by the number of verses for each Surah, followed by each consecutive number of every verse (for example, Surah 1 contains 7 verse and would be written like 1 7 1234567, and we do the same for the rest), the resulting 759-digit number is a multiple of 19…if we leave out the suspect verses.  

Combine the number of verses in each Surah with the sum of the verse numbers of each Surah. For example, Surah 1 has 7 verses and the sum of its verse numbers (1+2+3+4+5+6+7) is 28, so the combination is 728. Surah 2 has 286 verses, and the sum of the verse numbers is 41041, so the combination is 28641041. So If we do this for all 114 Surahs and add the combinations together (728 + 28641041 +…), the result is a multiple of 19 if we leave out the false verses 9:128-129. 

If we write the number of verses for each Surah, followed by all the verse numbers of each Surah (for example, Surah 1 has 7 verses, so we write it as 7 1234567, and so on for the next Surahs) and we put them side by side, the resulting 12692-digit number is a multiple of 19 (and the number 12692 itself is a multiple of 19) if we leave out the suspect verses.  

  • Fact 2: If we switch it up and write Surah 1 as 1234567 7, and do the same for every other Surah, the resulting 12692-digit long number is once again a multiple of 19. If we do this and add 6234 (the total number of numbered Quranic verses) in the end, the 12696-digit number is also a multiple of 19, and of course none of this would be true if the suspect verses were added. 
  • Fact 3: Let us write out all of the verse numbers of each Surah, followed by the sum of the verse numbers. Surah 1’s verse numbers are 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, and the sum of 1+2+3+4+5+6+7 is 28. So the combination for Surah 1 is 1234567 28, and Surah 2 is 1234567…286 41041, and so on for each Surah. The resulting 12836-digit number is a multiple of 19, which would not happen if the two suspect verses are included. 
  • Fact 4: If we reverse the order of Fact 3 (so now the combination will be 28 1234567 41041 123456…286 and so on) it will also be a multiple of 19 without the two suspect verses.
  • Fact 5: If we use Fact 4, but instead of doing it from the order of the first to last Surahs we do it from the order of the last to first Surahs, the resulting number would be 123456 21 12345 15…12345…286 41041 1234567 28 and it is a multiple of 19. If we include the two suspect verses, the result would not be a multiple of 19. 
  • Fact 6: If we write the total sum of the Quranic verse numbers (333410), and the total sum of the numbered verses (6234), and the total number of Surahs (114), followed by the Surah number and number of verses of each Surah (so Surah 1 has 7 verses, so it would be written as 1 7, Surah 2 has 286 verses so it would be written as 2 286, and so on) the resulting number would be 333410 6234 114 1 7 2 286 3 200… and so on. This is a multiple of 19, but not if the two suspect verses are included. 
  • Fact 7: If we reverse the order of Fact 6 such that the Surah numbers come first and the total number of verses comes second (so now it will be 333410 6234 114 7 1 286 2 200 3…) the resulting 474-digit number is also a multiple of 19, but not if the two suspect verses are included. 
  • Fact 8: Let’s put side by side the sum of the verse numbers of each Surah, and at the end put the sum of all the verse numbers (333140). So Surah 1’s sum of its verse numbers is 28, Surah 2’s sum is 41041, and etc. So the resulting number (28 41041 20100…15 21 333140) is a multiple of 19, if we don’t include the suspect verses.  
  • Fact 9: If we write the total number of Surahs (114), the sum of the numbered verses (6234), the number of each Surah and the sum of the verse numbers of each Surah, the resulting number (114 6234 1 28 2 41041 3 20100…) is a multiple of 19 if we don’t include the two suspect verses. 
  • There are a few more facts like the above, which I won’t include because you get the point by now. I verified each of these facts with a calculator that lets us divide very long numbers. 

Here is an awesome series of facts that confirm the absence of the Bismillah in Surah 9, the fact that verses 9:128-129 are false, the fact that the Bismillah is verse 1 in Surah 1 and a prefix (verse 0) everywhere else, as well as the validity of every single Quranic verse: 

  • Fact 1: Write down the Surah number, followed by the total number of verses in that Surah, followed by the verse number of the Bismillah, followed by all verse numbers in order from least to greatest, and this is done for all 114 Surahs. Surah 1 has 7 total verses, so its combination is 1 7 1234567. For Surah 2, it is 2 286 0 123456…286. The reason for the 0 is to represent the Bismillah that comes before all the verses of Surah 2 as a prefix. Notice that the combination for Surah 1 does NOT contain a zero because the Bismillah is verse 1. For Surah 9, the combination is 9 127 123456…127 (notice that we don’t include a zero for Surah 9’s combination because Surah 9 is the only Surah without a Bismillah). If you do this for every Surah of the Quran and put the combinations side by side (1 7 1234567 2 286 0 123456…) this creates a very long number that has 13038 digits, and is a multiple of 19. The two false verses would invalidate this.
  • Fact 2: For this one, let’s write the Surah number, followed by the number of each verse in that Surah, followed by the sequential number of each verse of the Quran (including the Bismillahs that serve as verse 0), for every Quranic Surah. So for Surah 1, you write: 1 11 22 33 44 55 66 77. Then for Surah 2 you write: 2 08 19 210 311 412…286294. That’s because after the first 7 verses of the first Surah (al-Fatiha), the Bismillah of Surah 2 (al-Baqarah) is verse number 0, but it is the 8th verse in the Quran if counting from the beginning, as it comes immediately after the 7 verses of al-Fatiha. Then the “Alif, Lam, Meem” is verse 1 of Surah al-Baqarah, but it is the 9th overall verse in the Quran if starting from the beginning.
    • If you make this numerical combination for every Surah of the Quran, this creates a huge, 37088-digit number that is a multiple of 19. Not only that, but the number 37088 itself is a multiple of 19 (19 x 1952). If you include the 2 false verses (9:128-129), there will be no multiples of 19 here.  

Here is another series of facts where instead of only putting the number combinations side by side, we will add them.

  • Fact 1: Let us write the Surah number, the number of verses of that Surah, and every individual verse number, and the sum of the verse numbers side by side. So for Surah 1 (which has 7 verses) it would be 1 7 1234567 28. For Surah 2 it would be 2 286 1234567…28641041 and so on. Let’s do this for each Surah, then add the number combinations together (so we will add 17123456728 + 22861234567…28641041 and so on until we get to the last Surah). The resulting 759-digit number is a multiple of 19, but that would not be the case if verse 9:128-129 were included in the calculation. 
  • Fact 2: We copy Fact 1, but instead of putting the Surah number and number of verses in the beginning, we don’t put it at all. So instead of 1 7 1234567 28 the number combination of Surah 1 will just be 1234567 28, and we repeat this for all Surahs. The resulting 757-digit number is a multiple of 19, but not if we include verses 9:128-129. 
  • Fact 3: Surah 1 has 7 verses and the sum of all its verse numbers (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7) is 28. Surah 2 has 286 verses and the sum of its verse numbers is 41041. So for each Surah the combination is the total number of verses and sum of verse numbers, so for Surah 1 it is 728, Surah 2 will be 28641041 and so on. If we repeat this for all 114 Surahs and add the number combinations (728 + 28641041 + etc.) the sum will be 4859309744, or 19 x 255753146. If we add verses 9:128-129 to the calculation, the total would not be a multiple of 19.  

When every odd-numbered Surah (whose number of verses are also odd) is followed by the number of verses in each Surah, from the missing Bismillah to the extra Bismillah, the result is 9 127 11 123 13 43 15 99 17 111 25 77 27 29 (19 x 48037427533385052195322409091). This would not be true if the two false verses were included. 

The sum of the verse numbers for Surah 9 is 126122 (19 x 6638). If we add the two suspect verses, the total would not be a multiple of 19. 

Let’s take the sum of the Surah numbers, the sum of the verse numbers, and the sum of the number of total verses that have a number attached to them (excluding the unnumbered Bismillahs that prefix the Surahs) from Surah 9 (the missing Bismillah) to the end of the Quran, the grand total is 116090 (19 x 6110).  

  • If this calculation is done from the missing Bismillah to the extra Bismillah at 27:30, then the total would still be a multiple of 19. 
  • If this calculation done from the missing Bismillah to the only verse that the number 19 is mentioned (74:30), then the total would once more be a multiple of 19.  
  • For all three calculations mentioned here, the two suspect verses were excluded. 

Let’s look at the all the verse numbers in the Quran and find out how many “1’s” are there. For example: verse 1, verse 10, verse 11, etc. We look for the number of 1’s there are in total in ALL verse numbers. The grand total is 2546 (19 x 134) but if we add the two extra 1’s from verses 9:128 and 9:129, the total becomes 2548.  

  • If we do the same for the un-initialed Surahs only, the total number of 1’s in the verse numbers is 1406 (19 x 74) but if we add the two 1’s from verses 128 and 129 in Surah 9 (also an un-initialed Surah) we get 1408, not a multiple of 19. 
  • Following the same process, if we count the TOTAL number of 2’s, 8’s, and 9’s in all the verse numbers, we get 3382 (19 x 178). And when you add them to the total number of 1’s count, you get 5928 (19 x 312). But if you add the extra verses 9:128-129, you get extra 1’s, 2’s, 8’s and a 9’s, therefore messing up the count. 

Adding the digits of every Surah number and number of verses (for example, Surah 11 has 123 verses, so we add 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 3) in the Quran yields 1881 (19 x 99). If the sum of the digits of every Surah were multiplied with the sum of the digits of the total number of verses in each Surah, the result is 7771 (19 x 409). A multiple of 19 would not be produced for either calculation if the suspect verses were added. 

Surah 9 is an odd-numbered Surah, and if the digits of every odd-numbered Surah in the Quran were added with the digits in the number of verses for each odd-numbered Surah (for example, Surah 9 has 127 verses so we add 9 + 1 + 2 +7), the result is still a multiple of 19, if the two suspect verses are excluded. 

Adding the Surah numbers and the number of verses in each Surah with 127 verses or less will give 10963 (19 x 577). If Surah 9 had 129 verses, it would not be included, and the calculation would not yield a multiple of 19. If this calculation was done with all Surahs having 129 verses or more, the total is 1577 (19 x 83), but if Surah 9 had 129 verses and was included, the count would not have made a multiple of 19. 

Surah 9 has 127 verses and 9+1+2+7 adds up to 19, with the Surah number being 9 and the verse numbers adding to 10. There are two other Surahs whose Surah number adds to 9 and whose verse numbers adds up to 10. They are Surahs 45, 54, and 72. Surah 45 has 37 verses, Surah 54 has 55 verses, and Surah 72 has 28 verses. The total number of verses from these four Surahs (127 + 37 + 55 + 28) is 247 (19 x 13). If Surah 9 had 129 verses, it obviously would disturb that pattern. (37 + 55 + 28 = 120 is not a multiple of 19). 

When the Surah numbers, total number of verses, and the amount of verses whose digits add to 10 in the Surahs ranging from the missing Bismillah to the extra Bismillah are added (Surah 9 to verse 27:29), the total is 2470 (19 x 130), assuming that the two suspect verses are not included. 

When the Surah numbers, the number of verses, and the sum of the verse numbers of all Surahs whose number of verses end with a digit 9 are added (like Surah 10, which has 109 verses, thus the last digit of the number of verses is 9), the result is 23655 (19 x 1245). If Surah 9 had 129 verses and was included in this calculation, the total would not be a multiple of 19, but since these are two suspect verses, Surah 9 was excluded from the calculation. 

Surah 9 has 127 verses, and 127 is a prime number. There are only 17 other Surahs that have prime numbers as the number of verses they have. Let’s add digits of the Surah numbers and the digits of the verse numbers. For example, Surah 9 would be 9 + 1 + 2 +7, Surah 13 (having 43 verses) would be 1 + 3 + 4 + 3 and so on. The grand total of the sum of all the digits together would be 266 (19 x 14), but there wouldn’t be a multiple of 19 if Surah 9 was excluded from the list for having 129 verses (129 is not a prime number). Thus, Surah 9 has 127 verses. 

The number 129 is divisible by 3. If we add the sum of the Surah numbers with the sum of the number of verses for only the Surahs which have a total number of verses that is divisible by 3, we get 836 (19 x 44). If we assume Surah 9 has 129 verses and include it in the calculation, there wouldn’t be a multiple of 19.   

There are only 8 Surahs having 129 verses or more, and the sum total of their number of verses is 1577 (19 x 83). If Surah 9 had 129 verses and was thus added to this calculation, the total would not be a multiple of 19. 

If one adds the Surah numbers and number of verses of the un-initialed Surah starting from Surah 1 to Surah 9, they would get 703, 19 x 37. This depends on whether Surah 9 has 127 verses. 

Surah 9 has 127 verses, and its number of verses (127) has the digits 1 and 2. When we add the Surah number and the number of verses for each Surah whose total verse numbers have the digits 1 and 2, we get 1159 (19 x 61). If Surah 9 had 129 verses, the total would be 1161, not a multiple of 19.  

For all Surahs whose total number of verses contains the digit 1, if we add their number of verses together, the result is 126122 (19 x 6638). But if Surah 9 were to have 129 verses, the total wouldn’t be a multiple of 19. 

Surah 9 has a single-digit Surah number, and only one other Surah has a single-digit Surah number with the digits 1 and 2 in its number of verses, which is Surah 5 (containing 120 verses). By adding the number of verses of those Surahs, the result obtained in 247 (19 x 13), which would not be the case if the two suspect verses were included. 

When the number of verses for all Surahs whose number of verses has the digit 1 in the beginning are added together, the result is 126122 (19 x 6638), and this is assuming that the two suspect verses are excluded. 

Considering the odd-numbered Surahs whose number of verses end with 9, if their number of verses and their Surah numbers were added together, the result would be 646 (19 x 34). There would not be a multiple of 19 if we assume that Surah 9 (an odd-numbered Surah) has a total number of verses whose last digit is 9 (129 verses).  

Adding the Surah number and number of verses for all Surahs whose number of verses has seven as the last digit yields 798 (19 x 42). The two suspect verses were excluded from this calculation (rendering Surah 9 with 127 verses), thus Surah 9 was able to be a part of this calculation, which yielded a multiple of 19. 

Here are a series of related calculations. 

  • Fact 1: If we take the last two verses of each Surah, and add all of the digits up, the sum would be a multiple of 19. So the last two verses of Surah 2 are verses 285 and 286, and we are adding together 2+8+5+2+8+6. For Surah 1 the last two verses are 6 and 7, so we add 6+7. We also assume Surah 9’s last two verses are 126 and 127, so we add 1+2+6+1+2+7. We do this for all Surahs and the grand total if we add all of these digits up is 1824 (19×96). This would not be true if the last two verses of Surah 9 are 128-129. 
  • Fact 2: Copy Fact 1, but focus on the uninitialed Surahs. And instead of adding the individual digits, we add the verse numbers together. So for Surah 2 we add the last two verses (285+286), Surah 3 we add the last two verses (199+200) and Surah 9 we assume the last two verses are 126 and 127 and we add those. We do this for all uninitialed Surahs, and the grand total if we add it all up is 6897 (19 x 363). This would not be the case if we add the two suspect verses (verses 9:128-129) in the equation. 
  • Only a few Surahs (Surahs 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 16, 20, 26, 37) have 128 or more verses. If we add all the verses with the number 128 altogether (so we’re essentially adding 128 nine times, or 128 x 9), we get a total of 1152. If we add it to the sum of the Surah numbers for these few Surahs (2+3+4+6+7+16+20+26+37 = 121) we get 1152 + 121 = 1273 (19 x 67). It would NOT be true if Surah 9 had 128 or more verses. 

Here are a series of facts involving the number 7:

  • Fact 1: There are only seven Surahs whose number of verses ends with the number 7. Surah 1 has 7 verses, Surah 9 has 127 verses, Surah 25 has 77 verses, Surah 26 has 227 verses, Surah 45 has 37 verses, Surah 86 has 17 verses, and Surah 107 has 7 verses. If we add the Surah numbers and verse numbers together (so for Surah 1 we add 1+7, for Surah 9 we add 9+127, for Surah 25 we add 27+77 and so on), the grand total if we add all the sums up will be 798 (19 x 42). If Surah 9 had the two false verses, it would have 129 verses and not 127, thus it would be taken out of the calculation and the result wouldn’t be a multiple of 19. 
  • Fact 2: For each Surah, we will add up the number of times the digit “7” appears in the last two verses of each Surah. So for Surah 2 the last two verses are 285-286, and the digit 7 appears zero times. For Surah 25 the digit 7 in the last two verses (76 and 77) appears three times. We do this for the last two verses of every Surah, and the total is 38 (19 x 2). This would not be the case if the last two verses of Surah 9 were 128-129 (in which the digit 7 does not appear).  
  • Let’s assume Surah 9 does not have the false verses of 9:128-129, but has 127 verses. It’s Surah number and verse number digits add up to 19 (9 + 1 + 2 + 7 = 19). There are only 10 Surahs in total whose Surah number and verse number digits add up to 19 (Surahs 9, 22, 26, 45, 54, 64, 72, 77, 78, and 84). If you add the Surah numbers and verse numbers together of these 10 Surahs (so for Surah 9 you add 9 + 127, for Surah 22 you add 22 + 78, and so on), and the grand total will be 1216 (19 x 64). This wouldn’t be the case if Surah 9 had 129 verses.  

This series of facts involves all Surahs whose number of verses have 3 digits: 

  • Fact 1: Surah 9 has 127 verses, which consists of 3 digits (1, 2, and 7). Let us look at all the Surahs whose number of verses consists of 3 digits, and they are: Surahs 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 26, and 37. Their number of verses are: 286, 200, 176, 120, 165, 206, 127, 109, 123, 111, 128, 111, 110, 135, 112, 118, 227, and 182, respectively. By taking the last digit in each number of verses, and adding up these digits, we get 6+0+6+0+5+ 6+7+9+ 3+ 1+8+ 1+0+5+2+8+7+2 = 76 (19×4). This would not be the case if Surah 9 has 129 verses (thus making the last digit 9). 
  • Fact 2: We copy Fact 1, but this time we look at only the Surahs with odd number of verses (not even), whose number of verses has three digits. So it’s Surahs 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17. 20, and 26. If we add the last digits like we did for Fact 1, the result is 38 (19 x 2). This would not be the case if Surah 9 has 129 verses, so we know that Surah 9 only has 127 verses. 
  • Fact 3: We copy Fact 2 but this time only focusing on the odd-numbered Surahs whose number of verses are also odd and are three-digit numbers. Those Surahs are Surah 9 (having 127 verses), Surah 11 (having 123 verses) and Surah 17 (having 111 verses). If we add 127 + 123 + 111 together, the result is 361 (19 x 19), and there wouldn’t be a multiple of 19 if Surah 9 had 129 verses.  
  • Fact 4: We use the same three Surahs in Fact 3, but this time instead of adding 127 + 123 + 111 we add all the individual digits (1+2+7+1+2+3+1+1+1) and this gives us 19. We would get 21 and not 19 if Surah 9 had 129 verses. 
  • Fact 5: We use the same 3 Surahs from Fact 4 (Surahs 9, 11, and 17). Surahs 11 and 17 are the only Surahs that possess the following qualities: odd number of verses (123 and 111 respectively), odd Surah numbers (11 and 17), their number of verses containing 3 digits, and their total number of verses being divisible by 3 (123 divided by 3 is 41, and 111 divided by 3 is 37). The sum of their Surah number and verse number digits are 1+1+1+2+3+1+7+1+1+1 is 19. But if Surah 9 has 129 verses, then it would mess up the calculation since 129 is also divisible by 3.    

Conclusion

We now understand why the Quran said in verse 74:31 that the number 19 will be a source of “fitnah” (trial) for the people. The false status of verses 9:128-129 may be difficult for many to accept, but those who can bring themselves to accept such clear and overwhelming Quranic evidence have passed the test.

Most importantly, an important prophecy in the Quran has finally been fulfilled. It was prophesized in verse 74:31 that the number 19 will someday dispel all doubts and increase the faith of people, thus confirming beyond all doubt that Islam is the true religion.

Believe it or not, this information is not even half of the publicly available aspects of the Quran’s 19-based mathematical composition, and it is unlikely that there is public documentation or knowledge of every single aspect of the Quran’s mathematical system. It is too vast to comprehend, in all honesty. Maybe more people with go on to find new discoveries, but I feel like this is enough to get the point across without totally frying your brain.

Just how miraculous the Quran’s 19-based mathematical composition is cannot be stated enough. Muhammad did not receive the Quran in the order that it is in today, and he received instruction to compile the Surahs in a certain order, like for example the first Surah given to Muhammad was the 96th Surah of the Quran. And he received all verses piece by piece and was told which Surah to place each of them in. Many Surahs were not even done being fully revealed when other Surahs were revealed.

To exemplify how seemingly random the revelation process is, let’s say Muhammad hypothetically received some verses of a Surah known as X. Next, he received some verses of Surah B, then again some verses of Surah G. Then, let’s say the first few verses of a new Surah known as Surah C got revealed after that, then some more verses of Surah X after that, then some more verses of Surah P were revealed, then back to Surah G with some more verses, and so on and so forth.

This is why it’s nothing short of a miracle that a complex 19-based mathematical structure can be generated by such a randomized revelation process, especially given that nobody before the year 1974 was aware of any 19-based structure to the Quran.   

Not only that, but the Quran’s mathematical structure explains the aspects of the Quran that we find strange, such as:

  • Why Surah 9 is the only one missing a Bismillah as the prefix
  • Why Surah 1 has the Bismillah as its first verse rather than a prefix like the other Surahs
  • Why the Bismillah has an unusual “Bism” spelling the Arabic text to make the whole Bismillah 19 letters rather than 20 letters
  • Why each Surah was assigned seemingly random positional numbers that are different from the order of revelation (such as the first revealed Surah being Surah 96) and more.
  • Also, it at least partially, if not fully, solves the mystery of why the Quran has these Quranic initials in the beginning of some Surahs.  

We know from the Quran that God is the one responsible for the Quran’s compilation (verse 75:17), thus all instructions about how many verses each Surah contained and what number to assign each Surah was given to Muhammad by God. Like for example, the first Quranic Surah the prophet received was assigned the number 96, thus it became the 96th Surah. The prophet was also given very specific instruction regarding which Surahs contained a Bismillah in the beginning and which didn’t (only Surah 9 does not contain a Bismillah in the beginning, and only Surah 1 has the Bismillah as verse 1, while all other Surahs have it as a prefix, or “verse 0”.).

So when Uthman, the 3rd Caliph of the Islamic Empire, ordered the compilation of the Quran (which was headed by a committee, who compared the first manuscript that existed–which was owned by one of the wives of the prophet–with the memory of the people in the committee), these well-meaning people were not but humans. So, there was always the question of whether they made any unintentional scribal errors, or if they accurately followed the instructions of the prophet regarding where to place each Surah, and more.

Even today, there is dispute regarding whether Surah 9 (since it doesn’t have a Bismillah) is actually part of Surah 8 and whether the Quran really has 113 Surahs, or whether the Bismillah of Surah 1 is actually verse 1 of this Surah or just a preface (since all Surahs except Surah 9 are prefaced with a Bismillah, thus the preface is considered “verse 0”). The 19-based mathematical composition solves each of these disputes.

Even more shockingly, after the death of the prophet’s wife who owned the very first manuscript, it was burned by the 8th Caliph Marwan ibn al-Hakam (source: Ulum al-Quran by Ahmad von Denffer). The earliest surviving full manuscript of the Quran is dated between 775 AD and 995 AD with 95% confidence, or a full 100-300 years after the Quran was standardized, so there was always a slight element of doubt as to whether the Quran in our hands is fully uncorrupted or not.

In conclusion, let us end with a final note regarding the Bismillah. The more linguistically correct, or “normal” spelling would cause the phrase to have 20 Arabic letters, but the unusual spelling causes it to have 19 letters. Whenever the word “Bismi” (in the name of) appears in the Quran, it’s usually spelled with the letters “Ba alif sin meem”, which is the correct spelling in the Arabic language. However, the “Bismi” in the Bismillah phrase is missing the alif as the second letter, and of course the primary explanation is that God told Muhammad to spell it like that because God is responsible for compiling the Quran (verse 75:17). But now, we know that this unusual spelling contributes to the 19-based mathematical composition, and that God didn’t tell the prophet Muhammad to spell it like that just for fun and games.

Moreover, a close companion of Rashad named Abdullah Arik has a 47-page book titled Beyond Probability where the first 32 pages are a long series of facts and patterns that Arik discovered involving the 19-based mathematical composition of the Bismillah alone, including the number of words (4) and letters (19) in the phrase, the gematric value of the Bismillah (786), the gematric value of each letter and word in the Bismillah, and more. Obviously, if the Bismillah was spelled correctly, the first 32 pages of his book would be invalidated. Also, most of Lisa Spray’s part 2 version of “Beyond Probability”, where she discusses the 19-based mathematical composition of Surah al-Fatiha alone, would be invalidated if the Bismillah was spelled with the usual “correct” spelling in the Quran. 

Masjid at-Tajdeed

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