The Quran’s Miraculous 19-based Mathematical Structure

Salaamun alaykum, dear readers!

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.

The only way that the number 19 can possibly do all those things is if it confirms the authenticity of the Quran, beyond all doubt, thus causing an increase in the faith and the certainty of Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

[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) so that those who were given the Book may attain certainty, (3) and that those who believed may increase in faith, (4) and that those given the Book—as well as the believers—may not doubt, (5) 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.

When verse 74:31 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 do those things.

• 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.

Therefore, we can effectively call this Qur’anic prophecy the “prophecy of 19”.

So how will the number 19 fulfill this prophecy and confirm the authenticity of the Quran?

• Logically, the only way this number confirms the Quran’s authenticity beyond a doubt is if the number 19 gives the Quran some kind of miraculous mathematical property.

Alright, so after knowing this, where can we even start looking for a 19-based mathematical structure inside the Quran?

Well, when we examine the Quran’s literary structure, we find multiple things that stand out to us, which makes little sense.

• To begin with, why does only Surah 9 have no starting Bismillah? Why is the starting Bismillah of Surah 1 a numbered verse, but the starting Bismillah of the rest of the Surahs an unnumbered verse? Why does Surah 27 contain an extra Bismillah? There are Quranic initials in 29 out of the 114 Surahs, what do they mean? Why do 19 out of the 29 Surahs have standalone Quranic initials but other 10 have non-standalone initials? Why is Surah 42 the only Surah in the Quran with two standalone Quranic initials? Why did God tell the prophet to assign seemingly random positions to each revealed Surah, out of their chronological order of revelation?

So if these peculiar aspects of the Quran’s literary structure do not make sense, then maybe it’s because they are meant to be the pillars of an underlying 19-based mathematical structure?

The answer is: yes.

The “Five Pillars” of the 19-based Structure

Effectively, the way that the number 19 will confirm the Quran’s authenticity beyond all doubts was discovered in 1974.

In 1974, Dr. Rashad Khalifa, an Egyptian-American biochemist, discovered that the entire Quran is mathematically composed based on the number 19, and that the strange aspects of the Quran’s literary structure can be explained by their function as part of a broader 19-based mathematical structure.

Here are the five pillars that this unique, 19-based mathematical structure relies on:

• The missing Bismillah of Surah 9

• The extra Bismillah of Surah 27

• The starting Bismillah of Surah 1 being assigned a verse number (all the other starting Bismillah are “verse 0” or “unnumbered)

• The 29 Surahs with Quranic initials: 19 containing standalone initials, 10 containing non-standalone initials

• The Surah numbers and the verse numbers of the Quran (which were non-chronologically arranged by God during compilation in accordance with verse 75:17, with no discernible pattern or methodology).

The Quran’s Real Challenge to Humanity

The prophet Muhammad never knew a single thing about the number 19, despite the number 19 being mentioned in the Quran as the thing that will one day confirm Islam beyond all doubts in verse 74:31.

So if you believe Muhammad to be a liar, then here is the challenge for you:

• Pick a random number (such as the number 7, or the number 15).

• Use that number to produce any book you want that contains a complex and intricate mathematical system based on that number, without even trying to do it, or without being aware of any mathematical composition. No computers, no calculators, no intention, nothing.

• That’s because neither prophet Muhammad nor his companions were aware of anything involving the number 19. So even if you believe he fabricated the Quran, we can all agree that he certainly wasn’t consciously trying to produce a mathematically structured book.

• Therefore, if you can replicate the same phenomenon and produce a book with a complex mathematical structure based on a random number, without consciously trying to do so, then you have successfully answered the Quran’s challenge.

• And as an added bonus, make sure to find a way to incorporate a prophecy of that random number you chose into your book.

Many people think the Quran’s challenge is to produce a book with the same or even better literary quality as the Quran. But if that were the real challenge, it would be an unfalsifiable one because what counts as a “high literary excellence” varies from person to person.

• For example, some people love fiction literature, and some people love non-fiction literature. Some hate Shakespearean literature, and some love it.

• Many people (such as Anis Shorrosh and Taha Hussein) have claimed to produce a book with better literary quality than the Quran, but what are the objective criteria to judge that? The Quran’s challenge has to be falsifiable, or else it is not even a real challenge.

Mathematical Composition of the Quran’s Bismillahs

To begin with, the Bismillah is a phrase in the Quran that says, in Arabic, “Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Raheem“. It means, “In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful“.

The Bismillah verse 1 of the first Surah (al-Fatiha), and verse 0 (also known as an unnumbered verse) in all the other Surahs. The Bismillah 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.

In all, there are 112 “verse 0” (unnumbered) Bismillahs, and two numbered Bismillahs (verse 1:1 and 27:30) in the Quran, and one Bismillah entirely missing from Surah 9, making the total number of Bismillahs to be 114 (19 x 6).

This peculiar literary arrangement is crucial to the 19-based mathematical composition, as shown below. I will explain later why I put asterisks (**) on certain bullet points:

• There are 19 Surahs from the missing Bismillah in Surah 9 to the extra one found in Surah 27. Of course, the sum of any 19 consecutive integers is a multiple of 19, hence the sum of these Surah numbers is 342 (19 x 18).

• The extra Bismillah is found in Surah 27, verse 30, and 27 + 30 = 57, or 19 x 3. The number 30 is notable for being the verse in Surah 74 that the number 19 is mentioned.

• Let us 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) in between the missing Bismillah of Surah 9 to the extra Bismillah of verse 27:30 is 513 (19 x 27), and 27 happens to be the Surah that the extra Bismillah is found.

• **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).

• When we combine the Surah numbers and the verses numbers where each Bismillah 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 numbered Surahs, the result is also a multiple of 19 (35,131 = 19 x 1849). If only done with odd numbered Surahs, the result is 33,060 (19 x 1740).

• Combine the Surah number and the number of Bismillahs that it has. For example, Surah 1 has 1 Bismillah, so the combination is 11. Surah 2 has 1 Bismillah, so the combination is 21. Surah 27 has 2 Bismillahs so the combination is 272. Surah 9 has 0 Bismillahs so the combination is 90. When you add up all those combinations the result is 65664 (19 x 3456).
  • When you do this calculation for only even-numbered Surahs, the result is 32547 (19 x 1713). For odd-numbered Surahs, the result is 33117 (19 x 1743).

• **There are four words in the Bismillah, and they are: Bism (In the name), Allah (God), Al-Rahman (the Gracious), Al-Raheem (the Merciful). The word Rahman occurs 57 (19 x 3) times in the Quran, and the word Raheem occurs 114 (19 x 6) times in the Quran. This accounts for 2 out of 4 words of the Bismillah.

• **The remaining 2 words of the Bismillah are Bism and Allah. Both contractions have an inverse relationship. Bism is a contraction involving the root word Ism and the preposition bi. The contraction form (Bism) occurs 3 times, and the root word (Ism) occurs 19 times. But on the other hand, Allah is a contraction involving the root word “ilaah” and the definite article “al-“, and the opposite occurs: the contraction Allah occurs 2698 times (19 x 142) but the root word “ilaah” is not a multiple of 19.

• **If we add the factors of 19 of the occurrences of Ism, Allah, Rahman, and 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.

• **The four words (Ism, Allah, Rahman, Raheem) occurs in 1083 (19 x 57) verses in the Surahs that contain a Qur’anic initial, and 836 (19 x 44) verses in the Surahs without Qur’anic initials.

• **The four words (Ism, Allah, Rahman, Raheem) occur 1938 (19 x 102) times from the first “numbered” Bismillah in the Quran (verse 1:1) to the second “numbered” Bismillah (verse 27:30). And it occurs 950 (19 x 50) times from the Bismillah in verse 27:30 to the end of the Quran.

**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)**.

• **Of course, for any number “n” that is a multiple of 19, the sum of all integers from 1 to n will always be a multiple of 19. So the sum of all numbers from 1 to 6346 is 20,139,431, which is a multiple of 19. But the surprising thing is that just like the number 6346, the digits of this number also add up to 19 (2 + 0 + 1 + 3 + 9 + 4 + 3 + 1 = 19).**

• **Out of the 6346 total verses (both numbered and unnumbered), the number of verses from the beginning of the Quran to the extra Bismillah in verse 27:30 is 3211 (19 x 169).

• Also, out of the 6346 total verses, the number of verses from extra Bismillah in verse 27:30 to the end of the Quran is 3135 (19 x 165).

• Effectively, the extra Bismillah in verse 27:30 (which is meant to compensate for the one missing in Surah 9) divided the quantity of the Quran’s 6346 total verses into two multiples of 19.

Simple Facts

The following related fact are about the number of verses and the sum of the verse numbers. These three facts utilize 4/5 of the pillars of the mathematical structure:

• **Fact 1: If we add the sum of the verse numbers, plus the number of verses in the Quran, the total is 339644 (19 x 17876).

• **Fact 2: Repeat Fact 1 but focus only on the verses in between the missing Bismillah and the extra Bismillah, the result is 119624, or 19 x 6296.

• Fact 3: That means the sum of the verse numbers and the number of verses outside the “missing Bismillah to extra Bismillah” section (verses 1:1 to 8:75, and verses 27:30 to 114:6) is 220,020 (19 x 11580).

The following facts are about the number of verses, sum of the verse numbers, and sum of the Surah numbers of the Quran. Observe how this group of related facts utilizes all five pillars of the mathematical structure.

• **Fact 1: If we add the numbers assigned to all of the Surahs, plus the number of verses in the Quran, plus the sum of the verse numbers, the total is 346199 = 19 x 19 x 959.

• **Fact 2: Repeat Fact 1, but for all verses in between the missing Bismillah at Surah 9 and the extra Bismillah verse 27:30, the total is 119966 (19 x 6314).

• Fact 3: Repeat Fact 1 but for all verses outside the “missing Bismillah to extra Bismillah” section (verses 1:1 to 8:75, and verses 27:30 to 114:6) and the total is 226233 (19 x 11907)

• **Fact 4: Repeat Fact 1 but only for all Surahs from the missing Bismillah of Surah 9 to verse 74:30 (where the number 19 is mentioned), the total is 207670 (19 x 10930).

• Fact 5: Repeat Fact 1 but for all verses from 27:30 (the extra Bismillah) to verse 74:30 (where number 19 is mentioned) and the total is 87704 (19 x 4616).

• Fact 6: Repeat Fact 1 but only for the Surahs containing letters known as “Quranic initials” separately, the total is 190133 = 19 x 10007.

• **Fact 7: Repeat Fact 1 but for the un-initialed Surahs, the total is 156066 (19 x 8214)

• **Fact 8: Repeat Fact 1, but only for all un-initialed Surahs from the missing Bismillah of Surah 9 to the end of the Quran, the total is 116090 (19 x 6110)

• Fact 9: Repeat Fact 1 but for all un-initialed Surahs from Surah 1 (the only Surah with a numbered Bismillah prefix) to the missing Bismillah of Surah 9, the result is 39976 (19 x 2104).

Let’s look at some other simple facts.

• There are 30 unique whole numbers mentioned in the Quran (i.e., 1 God, 2 sons, 7 heavens … etc.), If we add the 30 numbers, we get a total of 162146 = 19 x 8534.
  • 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 sum of all unique numbers mentioned would have increased to 163055, which is not a multiple of 19.

• In addition to the whole numbers, there are 8 unique fractions in the Qur’an. In all, there are 38 (19 x 2) individual quantities (both integers and fractions) mentioned in the Quran.

• There are 114 (19 x 6) Surahs in the Quran.

• The word Allah occurs in the Quran 2698 times, which is 19 x 142 as it was already mentioned. However, the sum of the verse numbers where “Allah” is found happens to be 118123 (19 x 6217).** The word Allah is important because it is the most important word of the Bismillah, which is involved in two of the five pillars of the mathematical structure.

• 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 total occurrences of the word Allah in the verses whose numbers are not multiples of 19 are 2565 (19 x 135). The sum of the verse numbers is 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).

• **When you add all the Surah numbers of all 85 Surahs where the word “Allah” occurs, plus the number of the last verse where the word “Allah” occurs in each of those 85 Surahs, the result is 9101 (19 x 479).

• The only four Surahs whose verse numbers are multiple of 19 are: Surahs 47, 82, 87, and 96. They have 38, 19, 19, and 19 verses respectively. Add the Surah numbers, plus the number of times the word “Allah” occurs in those Surahs, and the result is 342 (19 x 18).

• **From verse 2:1 (the verse with the first Qur’anic initial) to 68:1 (the verse with the final Qur’anic initial) there are 2641 occurrences of the word Allah, or 19 x 139.

• The number of occurrences of the word “Allah” before the first Quranic initial in verse 2:1, and after the last Quranic initial verse 68:1, is 57 = 19 x 3. 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.

• The Quranic Shahadah (testimony of faith) is, “There is no God but He,” according to verse 3:18. That is the first pillar of Islam. The Arabic is “Laa ilaha illaa hu“. This phrase occurs 29 times in 19 Surahs. Add the sum of the Surah numbers (507), the sum of the verse numbers where the Shahadah occurs (1592), and the frequency of occurrence of the Shahadah (29), and the sum is 2128 (19 x 112).**

• The sum of all Surah and verse numbers that range from the first occurrence of the Shahadah to the last occurrence of the Shahadah is 316502 (19 x 16658).**

• **The Shahadah occurs in 7 verses from Surah 9 (which has the missing Bismillah) to Surah 27 (which has the extra Bismillah). Adding the verse numbers of these 7 verses together yields 323 (19 x 17).

• The word “waahid” means “one” in Arabic. It has a gematric value of 19. Additionally, there are 25 occurrences of this word in total in the Quran, and 19 occurrences of the word “waahid (one)” are about God’s oneness in the Quran.

• If you add the Surah and verse numbers (without repetition) of the word Quran, in all its grammatical forms, the result is 4408 (19 x 232). We exclude verses 10:15 and 13:31 (which refers to “another Quran”) and 41:44 (which refers to a hypothetical non-Arabic Quran), hence we only included the word Quran when it refers to the one that actually exists.

• There are 12 Surahs in the Qur’an whose Surah number and number of verses, when added together, makes a multiple of 19. Like for example, Surah 15 is one of those Surahs, and it has 99 verses, and 15 + 99 is 114 (19 x 6). The number 6 is the multiplication factor for Surah 15. When you add up the multiplication factors for all 12 Surahs, the total is 76 (19 x 4).

• The cumulative value (CV) of a Surah is the sum of its Surah number and all Surah numbers before it. For example, the CV of Surah 1 is 1. For Surah 2, the CV is 3 (since you’re adding Surah 1 + Surah 2). For Surah 3 it’s 6 (2 + 1 + 3). If you add the CV of the 29 Surahs that contain a Qur’anic initial, together, you will get 15675 (19 x 825).

• The CV of the 85 Surahs that do not contain a Qur’anic initial is 237785 (19 x 12515).

The following facts involve Surahs 47, 82, 87, and 96, the only four Surahs whose number of verses are a multiple of 19:

• The cumulative sum of number 47 is (1 + 2 + 3 + 4. ..+ 47), which is 1128. The same rule creates the cumulative sums of the number 82, 87, and 96. All four cumulative sums make a total of 13015 (19 x 685).

• **The cumulative sum of the number of verses is like this: Surah 1 has 7 verses, Surah 2 has 286 verses, and so on. The cumulative sum of the number of verses of Surah 2 is (286 + 7 = 293). The cumulative sum of number of verses of Surah 3 is (7 + 286 + 200 = 493) because you add the number of verses of the current Surah and the number of verses of all Surahs before it. When you add the cumulative sum of number of verses of Surahs 47, 82, 87, and 96, the total is: 22515 (19 x 1185)

• **The cumulative sum of the cumulative sums of verse numbers is like this: Surah 1 has a cumulative sum of verse numbers of 28. Surah 2 has a cumulative sum of verse numbers of 41041. So the cumulative sum of the cumulative sums of verse numbers of Surah 2 is (28 + 41041 = 41069). In that way, the cumulative sums of the cumulative sums of verse numbers of Surahs 47, 82, 87, and 96 add up to: 1293121 (19 x 68059).

If you add the Surah number with the number of verses contained in each Surah, there are 57 (19 x 3) odd-numbered sums, and 57 (19 x 3) even-numbered sums.

• If you add 57 even-numbered sums together, the result is 6234 (which happens to be the total amount of numbered Quranic verses).

• If you add the 57 odd-numbered sums together, the result is 6555 (19 x 345). The number 6555 also happens to be the sum of all the Surah numbers.

My Own Discovery

I found that there are 19 Surahs in the Quran which have a standalone Qur’anic initial. That means the first verse of these 19 Surahs contain no true Arabic words, but only a set of Quranic initials, hence these Surahs have what I call “standalone Quranic initials“.

• Like Surah 2 for example, the first verse (2:1) is just the three Arabic letters Alif, Lam, and Meem. There are zero actual words in verse 2:1, hence the Quranic initial “Alif, Lam, Meem” in this Surah is standalone.

• Surah 42 is unique even among these 19 Surahs because it is the only one where both the first AND second verse contain a Quranic initial, and no words or sentences. Verse 1 only contains the letters “Ha” and “Meem” and verse 2 only contains the letters Ayn, Seen, and Qaaf, hence there are two sets of standalone Quranic initials in this Surah.

In contrast, there are 10 other Surahs with Quranic initials in their first verse, yet the Quranic initial is placed before the actual words of the first verse of those 10 Surahs. Hence, the Quranic initials in those Surahs are not standalone initials.

This is significant because the consequence of having standalone initials is the creation of new Quranic verses, because these Quranic initials stand alone in their own Quranic verse.

But adding and subtracting verses in the Quran creates potentially devastating ripple effects for the whole 19-based structure, because not only do the amount and the words/letters of these verses matter, but the Surah that these verses get placed in also have a huge impact. So it has to be done carefully or else the 19-based mathematical structure collapses.

• If all Quranic initials were standalone, most of the mathematical structure collapses.

• Also, if all the current standalone Quranic initials were non-standalone but instead were placed in the very next verse after it (thus making that next verse the new first verse), most of the structure collapses due to the deletion of 20 verses.

• If Surah 42 had one set of standalone initials like her 18 other sisters, instead of being the odd one out by having two sets, most of the mathematical structure collapses.

So what I did was add the sum of their verse numbers (148757) + the sum of their Surah numbers (564). The result is: 148757 + 564 = 149321 (19 x 7859).

Two False Verses

Rashad Khalifa also made the stunning discovery that verses 9:128-129 are actually false verses. These verses are man-made fabrications as proven overwhelmingly by the Quran’s own 19-based system.

Before that, one red flag about verse 9:128 in particular is that it gives prophet Muhammad the dual attribute “Ra’oof, Raheem” (Benevolent, Merciful).

• This dual attribute “Ra’oof, Raheem” is used 8 other times in the Quran to refer only to God, not anyone else.

• Hence, giving prophet Muhammad this attribute in verse 9:128 is inconsistent with the way that it is used throughout the rest of the Quran, and it also makes the prophet a partner (shareek in Arabic) with God by giving him a dual attribute that is unique only to God.

Secondly, many Hadith reports indicated that these two verses have very suspicious origins. I discuss that topic in this article: The Story of Verses 9:128-129 – Masjid at-Tajdeed

• The most damning example is several “authentic” Hadith (Bukhari no. 4364, Muslim no. 1618) saying that Surah 9 was the last complete Surah that was revealed, which means the prophet received the entire Surah all in one revelation. If that was the case, then why are verses 9:128-129 classified as Meccan verses, and the rest of the verses are Medinan, as if to suggest that this Surah was partially revealed?

• Another example is Zaid ibn. Thabit, who (during the first compilation of the Quran into a book under Caliph Abu Bakr) gathered what he could of the Quran from all available written sources, and even the hearts of men who memorized the Quran, yet did not find verses 9:128-129 with anyone other than Khuzaima ibn. Thabit (Bukhari no. 7191). How did Quran huffaz (memorizers) fail to provide any information about those two verses from their hearts if the Quran was really memorized in full by these men?

But the most conclusive evidence is not the early historical reports; rather, it is the mathematical evidence from the Quran itself, the earliest historical Islamic source, which provides concrete evidence. The Quran’s 19-based structure heavily rejects the inclusion of verses 9:128-129, as if to convey to the public that they are man-made fabrications.

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

There are 26 double asterisk signs placed higher up in this article, indicating 26 violations so far to the Qur’an’s 19-based mathematical structure with the addition of verses 9:128-129.

So now, let us examine an additional 50+ violations to the 19-based structure caused by these two verses.

Surah 9 is mathematically very significant because it is the only Surah that has a missing Bismillah. Hence, the Qur’an’s 19-based system involves Surah 9 more than any other Surah in the Qur’an.

• That is why adding false verses in Surah 9 causes more destruction to the Quran’s 19-based system than adding false verses to any other Surah.

• Altogether, there are 76+ total violations to the 19-based mathematical composition that are caused by verses 9:128-129.

The Evidence

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. 

In Surah 9, the Surah number (9) plus the number of verses (127) plus the number of times the word “Allah” occurs in Surah 9 (168) gives a total of 304 (19 x 16). This would be invalidated only if you include the two false verses.

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). 

The total count of all the digits (1 through 9) in all the verse numbers of the 85 un-initialed suras, including Surah 9 with 127 verses, is 27075, or 19x19x75. 

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 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 two false verses 9:128-129, you get extra 1’s and 2’s, and an extra 8 and 9, therefore messing up the count. 

The sum of the digits in the Surah numbers, added together with the sum of the digits in the number of verses of each Surah (for example, Surah 11 has 123 verses, so we add 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 3) in the Quran yields 1881 (19 x 99).

• If you do the same addition calculation, but focus on only the odd-numbered Surahs, the result is 950 (19 x 50). But incredibly, the sum of the digits of the Surah numbers itself is a multiple of 19 in this case (513 = 19 x 27) and the sum of the digits of the verse numbers is also a multiple of 19 (423 = 19 x 23)

• Multiply each sum of the digits of each Surah number with its corresponding sum of the digits of each number of verses, then add all the multiplication products. So for Surah 11 with its 123 verses for example, you do (1+1)*(1+2+3) = 2 x 6 = 12. Do the same for each Surah and add the multiplication products. The result is 7771 (19 x 409).

• A multiple of 19 would not be produced for any of these calculations if the suspect verses were added. 

Only 9 Surahs have 128 or more verses. In these 9 Surahs, there are only 19 verses that are a multiple of 128 or 129. If you add verses 9:128-129, there would be 21 verses, which is not a multiple of 19.

• Additionally, the sum of the verse numbers of those 19 verses add up to 2698 (19 x 142). This would be invalidated if the two false verses were included in the calculation.

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.

There are 27 odd-numbered Surahs whose number of verses are also odd, including Surah 9. Adding their Surah numbers and the number of verses together would yield a total of 2774 (19 x 146), assuming Surah 9 has 127 verses.

If we add the total number of verses for 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. 

The total number of verses in all 13 Surahs whose number of verses ends with the digit 9 is 627 (19 x 33). If Surah 9 had 129 verses, this calculation would not yield a multiple of 19.

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. 

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), only if you exclude the two false verses. 

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 false 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. 

The word “Allah” in all Surahs whose number of verses ends with the digit 9 occurs 190 (19 x 10) times in those Surahs, only if you exclude the two false verses.

Here are a series of facts involving the number 7:

• Fact 1: 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).  

• Fact 2: 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.  

• In all Surahs whose number of verses ends with the digit 7 (Surahs 1, 9, 25, 26, 45, 86, and 107) the word “Allah” occurs in those Surahs 209 (19 x 11) times. If Surah 9 had 129 verses instead of 127 verses, its number of verses would end with the digit “9” and not 7, this would cause it to be removed from the calculation, and there would be no multiple of 19.

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: Take all surahs that is an odd numbered surah, its number is divisible by 3, the number of verses is also divisible by 3, and the number of verses ends with the digit 9. Only Surah 15, with its 99 verses, meets this criterion. If you add the sum of the Surah numbers with the sum of the verse numbers (15 + 99) the result is 114 (19 x 6). The calculation would be invalidated if we assume Surah 9 has 129 verses.

• Fact 5: 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 6: 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.    

• Surah 11 and Surah 17 are the only two odd-numbered Surahs with their number of verses being odd numbered, containing three digits, and being divisible by 3. When you add up the digits of their Surah and verse numbers, you get: 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 7 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 19. This would not be the case if Surah 9 has 129 verses. and its digits were therefore included in this calculation. The number 129 is divisible by 3 while the number 127 is not.

Surah 1 is unique because it is the only Surah whose starting Bismillah is a numbered verse. Surah 9 is unique because it is the only Surah whose Bismillah is missing.

• The gematrical value of the first letter of every Surah from Surah 1 to Surah 9 is 38 (19 x 2). The gematrical value of the last letter of every Surah.

• The gematrical value of the last letter of every Surah from Surah 1 to Surah 9 is 570 (19 x 30). This assumes Surah 9 has 127 verses and ends with the letter “Noon”. If we assume Surah has 129 verses, it would end with the letter “Meem” and there would be no multiple of 19.

• When you add 570 and 38 together, you get 608 (19 x 32). This total would not be a multiple of 19 if Surah 9 had 129 verses.

43 Surahs end with the Arabic letter “Noon”. Add all of their Surah numbers + the number 43, and you get 1919 (19 x 101). If Surah 9 had 129 verses, it would end with the letter “Meem” and there would no longer be a multiple of 19.

The Qur’an states that the wrongdoers scheme and plot, but its author (God) schemes and plots ahead of them, so as to foil their plans. God knew that people will someday add false verses to their copies of the Qur’an.

• Hence, He structured the 19-based system in the Quran in advance, in a way that sends a message to the future generations that these verses do not belong in the book.

Long Numbers

Fact 1: Let us write out all of the verse numbers of at 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 2: If we reverse the order of Fact 1 (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 3: If we use Fact 2, 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. 

Facts 1-3 required just two variables: the sum of the verse numbers, the individual verse numbers, and the number of verses.

Let’s use statistics to calculate the probability that Facts 1-3 occurred due to random chance.

• The above four facts required just 2 variables: the sum of the verse numbers, the individual verse numbers.

• Those two variables were concatenated in combinations of 2. And we will allow for the sequence to be either from first Surah to the last Surah, or the last Surah to the first Surah (2 directions).

• The total amount of possible arrangements of those variables (if done in combinations of 2) is: 2 variables x 2 combinations x 2 directions = 8 possible data points.

• The criterion for success is generating a multiple of 19.

• Facts 1-3 represents 3 successful data points out of 8 total data points.

We will plug all those values into the binomial probability formula:

P(y) is the probability of y successes, n is the amount of total data points, y is the amount of successful data points, z is just n – y, and p is the probability of each successful trial. The usual significance threshold is 0.05, but let’s make our significance threshold P(y) = 0.01 to be extra strict.

• This means any value less than or equal to 0.01 will mean that the multiples of 19 in Facts 2-4 did not happen due to random chance.

So n = 8, y = 3, z = 5, and p = 1/19 (because there’s only 1/19 chance of randomly getting a multiple of 19).

• When plugging in all the values in the binomial probability formula, the result is: P(y) = 0.00623, which is statistically significant.

But here’s something interesting: all three successful data points are obtained with a couple of structural modifications. One is removing two false verses from the current copies Qur’an. The other is that typically, each Surah is prefixed with a “verse 0” Bismillahs, but Surah 1 is the exception, as its Bismillah was made into verse 1 instead. The probability of randomly excluding any two verses from the Quran is 1 / 19,440,730, and the probability of making one random Surah have a numbered Bismillah is 1 / 113.

• That means the probability of obtaining a multiple of 19 with the exclusion of two random verses from the Quran and making a random Surah have its starting Bismillah as a numbered verse is 1 / (19,440,730 x 19 × 113), or 1 / 41,739,247,310.

So if we do the same calculation, but make p = 1/41739247310, we get P = 0.00000000000000000000000000000077, and this is extremely, extremely, extremely significant.

• Therefore, the math shows, with more than 99.99999999999% confidence, that the multiples of 19 generated from Facts 1-3 did not happen by random chance.

Okay, let’s add yet another structural modification. There are 19 initialed Surahs in the Qur’an whose first verse was chosen to be just a standalone Qur’anic initial, without containing any actual words. Like Surah 36’s first verse is simply the two Arabic letters “Ya” and “Seen”. Verse 36:1 has no actual words, hence the “Ya Seen” in this verse is a standalone initial.

• The author of the Qur’an (whomever you believe him to be) could have chosen to follow the pattern of the other 10 initialed Surahs and placed the Quranic initial before the actual words of the verse, but instead the author made them as standalone Qur’anic initials. Consequently, 20 extra verses of the Qur’an were created.

• The probability of selecting one Surah at random to contain a standalone Qur’anic initial is 1/114. When this process is repeated 19 times independently, the probability becomes 1 / (1.21e+39).

• Surah 42 is the only Surah that has two standalone Qur’anic initials. The probability of a random Surah being selected to have a second standalone initial is 1/19.

• So when you put all those structural modifications together, the resulting probability of success (p) is: 1/ (1.21e+39 x 19 x 41,739,247,310), which is 1 / (9.56e+50)

• When you plug this new “p” value into the binomial probability formula, you get P(y) = 6.41e-151, or 6.41 x 10^(-151), which is a decimal number with a mind-blowing 150 zeros after the decimal point. That is how improbable it is for this phenomenon to occur by random chance.

The following long numbers (which are a multiple of 19) involve the following parameters for the binomial probability formula: n = 8, y = 1, z = 7, and p = 1 / (9.56e+50). The reason the value of p remains the same as Facts 1-3 is because the same modifications to the Qur’an’s literary structure as Facts 1-3 apply here. When you plug those parameters into the binomial probability formula, the result is P(y) = 8.37e-51, indicating extreme statistical significance:

• The number of verses in each Surah is concatenated with the individual verse numbers in order. For example, Surah 1 has seven verses and its combination is 7 12334567. The same is done with all 114 Surahs and the combinations are concatenated in sequential order. This makes a 12692-digit multiple of 19. The number 12692 = 19 x 668.

• The individual verse numbers of each Surah are concatenated in order, then followed by the sum of the Surah number and the number of verses. For Surah 1, it has 7 verses, and 1 + 7 = 8, so its combination is 1234567 8. The same is done for the rest of the Surahs, and all resultant combinations are concatenated in sequential order. This produces as 12774-digit multiple of 19.

Alright, now 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 8^th 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 9^th 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.  

For Fact 1, we used four variables: the Surah number, the number of verses, the unnumbered (verse 0) Bismillahs, and the individual verse numbers. Let’s arrange those variables in combinations of 4, and those arrangements can go in 2 directions.

• The total number of possible combinations is 32, and the number of confirmed successful trials is 1.

• The probability of deleting an unnumbered Bismillah from one random Surah is 1/112, the probability of excluding 2 random verses from the Quran is 1/19440730, the probability of picking a random Surah to break the pattern and make its verse 0 Bismillah into verse 1 is 1/113. Additionally, the probability of selecting 19 Surahs independently to contain a standalone initial is 1/1.21e+39, and the probability of selecting a Surah to contain a second standalone initial is 1/19. The probability of obtaining a multiple of 19 is 1/19.

• Therefore, the total probability of all of these outcomes occurring at once is p = 1 / (113 x 112 x 19440730 x 19 x 19 x 1.21e+39), which means p = 1 / 1.07e+53.

• So if n = 32, y = 1, z = 31, and p = 1 / 1.07e+53, when we plug all those into the probability formula, we get: P(y) = 2.99e-52, and that is extremely, unimaginably statistically significant. This is a very small decimal, with 51 zeroes after the decimal point.

For Fact 2, we used five variables: the Surah number, the number of verses, the unnumbered (verse 0) Bismillahs, the individual verse numbers, and the sequential value of each verse number. Let’s arrange those variables in combinations of 5, and those arrangements can go in 2 directions.

• The total number of possible combinations is 50, and the number of confirmed successful trials is 1.

• The only new modification made here that doesn’t exist in Fact 1 is the probability of deleting random sequential numbers. But given that this is not independent of other structural modifications, there will not be a probability included for this.

• So if n = 50, y = 1, z = 49, and p = 1 / 1.07e+53, when we plug all those into the probability formula, we get: P(y) = 4.67e-52, and that is extremely statistically significant. This decimal value once again contains 51 zeroes after the decimal point.

So we know for sure that the Quran’s 19-based system is not discriminating against verses 9:128-129 by random chance. The probability of that happening randomly or due to coincidence is just far too small.

Rather, the Quran has in place several unique modifications to its literary structure to allow number 19 to filter false verses out. In this way, number 19 is acting as a security system for the Qur’an to help filter out falsehoods.

Exceptions To the Rule

Others have pointed out that verse 9:128-129 generates a couple of multiples of 19 too when added to the Quran:

• When you add Surah numbers with all the verse numbers from 1:1 to 74:30 (the only mention of number 19), the total is 325546 (19 × 17134) if you include verses 9:128-129.

• The number of words in the Quran is 77881 (19 x 4099) if you include verses 9:128-129.

• Verse 74:30 (where the number 19 is mentioned) is the 5525th numbered verse if you include 9:128-129, and 5525 = 5 x 1105 (1105 is the gematric value of the Arabic word for 19)

• If you create a database of Surah numbers and verse numbers, there are 11050 total numbers from verse 1:1 to verse 74:30 when including verses 9:128-129, and 11050 = 1105 (gematric value of the Arabic word for 19) x 10.

First of all, the Quran’s criterion in verse 74:31 is that the “number” 19 is the sign from God, not the “word” 19. So anything related to the gematric value of the word 19 (1105) is not a part of the Quran’s 19-based mathematical system.

Secondly, adding verses 9:128-129 destroys much, much more of the Quran’s 19-based system than what it adds.

For example, it is true that adding 9:128-129 makes the sum of the Surah numbers and verse numbers from verse 1:1 to verse 74:30 a multiple of 19.

• However, removing those two verses makes the sum of the Surah numbers, the verse numbers, and the total number of verses of the whole Quran a multiple of 19. Secondly, the same calculation generates a multiple of 19 when applied to the un-initialed Surahs only. Lastly, removing verses 9:128-129 makes the sum of the verse numbers and the total number of verses a multiple of 19.

• All three multiples of 19 mentioned in the above bullet point are generated from the removal of verses 9:128-129 without destroying a huge chunk of the Quran’s 19-based structure.

• But when you include 9:128-129, you make a certain subset of Surah and verse numbers a multiple of 19, while nearly destroying the entirety of the Quran’s 19-based structure.

Let’s use verse 74:30 as another example. If we assume Surah 9 has 127 verses, then verse 74:30 is the 5523rd numbered verse. It would require the addition of 6 more verses in the previous Surahs to make 74:30 the 5529th verse (5529 x 19 x 291).

• If you were to add 6 more verses randomly throughout the Quran before Surah 74 create this artificial multiple of 19, including verses 9:128-129, then congratulations! For the sake of generating this one multiple of 19, you have just obliterated most of the Quran’s 19-based structure in the process.

• Likewise, artificially generating multiples of 19

The bottom line is: for the sake of the couple of multiples of 19 generated with the inclusion of these two verses, the vast majority of the mathematical structure becomes obliterated. It is like destroying one’s house in the process of replacing the door.

Quranic Initials

There are 14 Quranic initials in the Quran. Quranic initials are the random, disjointed letters that are in the first verse of 29 Quranic Surahs. Those 14 initials are made of 14 unique Arabic letters. They are commonly referred to in the discourse of Islamic studies as “huroof al-muqatta’at” (the disjointed letters).

To use an example, imagine if the first verse of a poem or any other piece of English, Spanish, French, German, or Italian literature were the letters E G U L. Those disjointed letters don’t make any known word no matter how you combine them, so one would ask, “Why did the author put them there? What do they mean?“

• Likewise, what we refer to as “Quranic initials” are the disjointed letters of unknown meaning and significance at the first verse of 29 Surahs.

• Even more mysteriously, Surah 42 is the only one that contains a set of disjointed letters in the second verse as well as the first verse.

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 was that God put them there for reasons that only He knows.

It wasn’t until 1974, when the 19-based mathematical composition of the Quran was discovered, that we realized the Quranic initials are one of the pillars of the Quran’s 19-based mathematical structure.

• From Surah 2 (the Surah with the first Quranic initial) to Surah 68 (the Surah with the last Quranic initial), 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, assuming the two false verses are excluded.

• 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.

• The cumulative value (CV) of a Surah is the sum of its Surah number and all Surah numbers before it. For example, the CV of Surah 1 is 1. For Surah 2, the CV is 3 (since you’re adding Surah 1 + Surah 2). For Surah 3 it’s 6 (2 + 1 + 3).
  • If you add the CV of all initialed Surahs together, you will get 15675 (19 x 825).

• 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).

• The GV of the Qur’anic initials (693) + the number of Surahs in which they occur (29) = 722 (19 x 19 x 2).

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 2052 (19 x 108).***

• 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 (4504 times in Surah 2), 3:1 (2510 times in Surah 3), 7:1 (2510 times in Surah 7) and so on. So you add 2 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 7 + 1 + 4504 + 2510 + 2510 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 (19×2328).

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)

• When you add up all the Surah numbers and number of verses from the first Surah that contains a Qaaf initial to the last Surah that contains a Qaaf initial (Surahs 42, 43, 44. 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50) the total is 817 (19 x 43).

• The Gematric value of the Quranic initials in all 9 Surahs between Surah 42 to Surah 50 (both included) is 570 (19 x 30). The frequency of the letter Qaaf in these Surahs is 456 (19 x 24).

• From Surah 42 to Surah 50, the word “Qur’an” (which starts with the letter Qaaf) in all of its grammatical forms occurs 6 times. Adding the Surah numbers where they occur (42 + 43 + 46 + 47 + 50) = 228 (19 x 13). Adding all the verse numbers (7 + 3 + 31 + 29 + 24 + 1) yields a sum of 95 (19 x 5).

All of these pieces of mathematical evidence highlight the integral role of the Qur’anic initials in the 19-based mathematical structure.

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.

Fact 1: 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 multiplication factor total frequency of Haa and Meem in these three Surahs (19 x 59 = 1121).

Fact 2: Applying the same calculation from Fact 1 to 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.

Fact 3: Repeating the same calculation from Fact 1, but applying it to 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.

Fact 4: If the same calculation from Fact 1 done for Surahs 40, 44, 45, and 46, it will give a total frequency of the letters Haa and Meem as 1102 (19 x 58), and adding the digits of that frequency will give the number 58.

Fact 5: If the same calculation from Fact 1 done for Surahs 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, and 46, it will give a total frequency of the letters Haa and Meem in those Surahs as 2147 (19 x 113). And adding the digits of the frequencies will yield a sum of 113.

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 two sets of Qur’anic initials.

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

When you add the Surah number (42) + the verse numbers where the Qur’anic initials occur in this Surah (1 + 2) + the gematric value of each initial set (48 + 230) you get a total of 323 (19 x 17).

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 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.

There is an ongoing debate about whether the word “bastah” in verse 7:69 is written with a letter “Seen” or letter “Saad”.

• Writing it with a letter “Seen” allows the count of the letters Alif Lam Meem and Saad in Surah 7 (which is initialed with those letters) to remain a multiple of 19.

• And just as importantly, writing the word “bastah” with the letter “Seen” preserves the multiple of 19 generated with this interlocking relationship.

• Lastly, the Tashkent Qur’an (the oldest complete manuscript available) writes this word with the letter “Seen” instead of the letter “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.

So there are two opinions. The first opinion is that these initials are not supposed to have a multiple of 19 associated with their letter counts.

The second opinion is that there is supposed to be a multiple of 19, because that has been the observed pattern so far, but we just don’t see it yet.

• If you have the second opinion, one compelling hypothesis is that the frequency of the letter “Ha” in Surah 19 (175) is supposed to complete the count.

• The theory is that the count of the letter Ha in Surah 19 (which has Ha has one of its Quranic initials) is supposed to interlock with the letter Ha in Surah 20 (which also has the letter Ha as one of its initials).

• So if the 175 counts of Ha from Surah 19 is added to 1592, the result is 1767 (19 x 93).

Another theory is that these initials (Ta Ha, Ta Seen, Ta Seen Meem) interlock not with the Ha from Surah 19, but with the Meem from Surahs 29, 30, 31, 32, which produces a multiple of 19 (2584 = 19 x 136).

So this is just an unconfirmed theory, and we cannot definitively conclude that the initials Ta Ha, Ta Seen, and Ta Seen Meem have a non-coincidental multiple of 19 associated with their initial counts.

• That’s because to derive a multiple of 19 here requires arbitrarily picking and choosing Surahs.

• For example, the letter count of “Seen” from Surah 36 is not included in this interlocking relationship. And the letter count of most of the Meem-initialed Surahs are not included either. So the method for this group of initials is not consistently applied.

• This is a stark contrast with the interlocking relationship regarding the Initial “Saad”, as that involves all the Saad-initialed Surahs. As a result, the method is consistently applied even though it is different.

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.

There are also other mathematical proofs. In this article, I put four triple-asterisk signs (***). Each triple-asterisk sign represents a calculation that would be invalidated if the Quranic initial Noon was a standalone letter, rather than spelled out as “Noon, waw, noon”.

• Hence, the Qur’an’s 19-based structure strongly supports spelling out the Quranic initial “Noon” as “Noon, waw, noon” instead of writing it as a standalone Arabic letter “Noon”.

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/whale” 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 precedent exists in the Qur’an to spell out the letter noon in verse 68:1 as “Noon waw noon”.

Probability Assessment of the Quranic Initial Letter Counts

The Quranic initials provide us with data points that we can plug into the binomial probability formula.

Let’s say we take the most pessimistic stance possible and assume the counts of any Quranic initial that has an Alif in it does not give us a multiple of 19 (due to the disputed counts of Alif in those Surahs).

We also assume that the initial Noon is written as a standalone letter Noon in verse 68:1, as it appears in most written copies of the Quran today.

We also assume that there are no interlocking relationships with the Quranic initials Ta Seen, Ta Ha, Ta Seen Meem, and Kaaf Ha Ya Ayn Saad.

This would give us 14 total data points, and 6 of those data points are successful (by having their letter counts be a multiple of 19).

That means n = 14, y = 6, z = 8, and p = 1/19. When we plug those numbers into the binomial probability equation, we get P(y) = 0.000047, and that is a very statistically significant result, with the worst case scenario.

Of course, our P(y) value would vastly decrease if we assume the most optimistic scenario: n = 12, y = 12, z = 0, and p = 1/19. This would give us P(y) = 0.000000000000000451.

This means the Quranic initials with the letter counts existing in multiples of 19 did not happen due to random chance. Rather, it was done intentionally, and not by prophet Muhammad, who was totally clueless about the number 19.

Number 19 and the Lunar and Solar Calendars

The Metonic cycle is the phenomenon where every 19 solar years (235 lunar months), the sun, moon and earth return to the same exact position that they are currently in.

In other words, whatever position the Earth, sun, and moon are in right now, they will all come back to this exact position every 19 years.

• To give an example: If the new moon occurred on February 17th in 2026, then it will once again occur on February 17th in the year 2045, which is 19 years later.

Some lunar calendars rely on this phenomenon to realign their calendars with the solar calendar (hence they are referred to as “lunisolar calendars”).

• That’s because 19 lunar years is 228 lunar months, but 19 solar years is 235 lunar months. That’s a difference of 7 months.

• So what lunisolar calendars (such as the Hebrew calendar) do is that within every 19-year interval, seven of those years are selected to include an extra 13th lunar month.

• Usually, a year has 12 lunar months in a lunisolar calendar, but 7 out of every 19 lunar years are given an extra 13th lunar month, to allow the calendar to align with the solar calendar every 19 years.

The words “sun” and “moon” are mentioned together in the Quran 19 times, likely in reference to the sun and moon realigning every 19 years during the Metonic cycle.

• Verse 75:9 (the 19th occurrence) mentions the sun and moon “coming together” (crashing into each other) during the end times, which is likely an implicit reference to the Metonic cycle.

• [75:9] And the sun and the moon have come together.

Apart from number 19, the Qur’an is filled with interesting, well-known numerical phenomena. Number 19 is just the only one that the Quran says will prove it as the truth.

• You can think of the other, more recognized and discussed signs and patterns in the Quran (like scientifically accurate information found ahead of its time, word symmetries, ring composition in some instances, Muhammad’s victory at the Battle of Badr against all odds, etc.) as strongly hinting toward divine origin without providing definite, 100% conclusive proof.

• But adding the 19-based structure into the discussion with all the other signs tilts the probability of the Qur’an having divine origin from “high possibility” to “100% certainty“.

One of the well-known numerical patterns in the Qur’an is that the singular form “month” occurs 12 times (representing the 12 individual months that make up a year, both in solar calendars and the lunar calendars).

• While I do not know whether the 12 singular forms of the word month in the Qur’an add anything to the 19-based structure, maybe someone in the future might make a significant discovery with this someday.

Also, the word “yawm” (day) occurs 365 times in the singular form, which represents the 365 days that make up a solar year.

• One important finding is that the GV (gematric value) of all grammatical forms of the 365 occurrences of the singular word “day” (yawm) is 22781 (19 x 1199).

• Additionally, the GV of the first 354 instances of the singular word “yawm” (representing the 354 days that make up a lunar year) is 22103. The ratio of 22781/22103 is 1.0307.

• The number 1.0307 is the currently recognized ratio between the solar year and the lunar year as established by science.

• Surah 74 is the one where we learn about the prophecy of 19, and verse 74:46 contains the 333rd word “day” (out of the 365 occurrences of the singular word day). The GV of the first 333 occurrences is 20862 (19 x 1098).

• The number 19 occurs in 13 verses where the singular word “day” occurs, either as a Surah number or a verse number. The word “day” in these 13 verses occurs 19 times.

All grammatical forms and derivatives of the word “day” (365 singular, 30 plural, 70 time adverbs, 10 possessive forms) occur 475 (19 x 25) times.

• All of these 475 words occur in 423 (19 x 23) verses.

• The word sun occurs 33 times in the Quran. It is noteworthy that the solar (Gregorian) and lunar (Islamic) calendars reunite every 33 years. For example, if it was Ramadan on February 17 this year, it will take 33 years for Ramadan to occur on February 17 again.

• During those 33 years, the sun rotates 475 times on its own axis (known as a Carrington rotation), which means if you were standing on the sun, you would experience 475 “days” in 33 solar years.

• It is worth noting that the 30 occurrences of the plural word “days” (ayyam) likely represents the fact that the average length of each months is 30 days.

So we have learned that the Metonic cycle and the solar and lunar calendars are represented in the Qur’an, and all are connected back to the Qur’an’s 19-based mathematical structure in some way.

As a side note, the average pregnancy is 266 (19 x 14) days.

• The 266th overall occurrence of the word “day” (whether singular, plural, possessive, or time adverb) is verse 43:65. That happens to be the 247th occurrence of the singular word “day” amongst all 365 occurrences, and 247 = 19 x 13.

• The GV of all 266 occurrences of the word “day” in all grammatical forms (singular and plural) up to verse 43:65 is 16644 = 19 x 876.

The Quran: Not in Chronological Order

For the longest time, it has always been a mystery as to why the Surahs of the Quran are not arranged in the chronological order that they were revealed. Aside from the Quranic initials and the missing Bismillah, this was one of the strangest things about the Quran.

For example, the first revealed Surah is believed to be Surah 96, the second is Surah 68, the fifth is Surah 1, the sixth is Surah 111, and so on. The final three revealed Surahs are believed to be Surah 5, Surah 9, and Surah 110.

Moreover, God didn’t simply finish a Surah and move on to the next. New verses were being placed into both new and existing Surahs seemingly randomly. And some verses within the Surahs themselves were not even revealed in the order that they were compiled.

In other words, this is probably the most randomized compilation process of any book on Earth. It is therefore natural for people to be confused about why God decided to compile the Quran in such a manner.

The only explanation for this unusually randomized compilation process (at least that’s how it would appear to any outsider) is derived from verse 75:19, which says God is responsible for compiling the Quran. That means God told the prophet Muhammad what number to assign each Surah and where to place each verse.

Of course, the non-Muslim theory is: “Prophet Muhammad was a mastermind who randomly assigned a position number to each new Surah that he fabricated, of his own accord, perhaps just to make the Quran look unique compared to other books, and to give people something to talk about. He also placed any new Quranic verse that he fabricated into any random Surah that ‘tickled his fancy’ at the time, rather than just finish a Surah and move on to the next, just so that people can wonder about it and discuss why. No god ever told him where to place what.“

But as you have seen, the Surah numbers and verse numbers are an essential component of the 19-based mathematical structure. If the position numbers of the Surahs and verses were based on their chronological order of revelation, or even if their assigned positions were off by a little bit, then most of the mathematical structure would collapse.

Therefore, it is very likely that this was done on purpose, so that God could demonstrate how a complex mathematical structure can arise from such an unusual method of compilation that we perceive to be randomized.

• That is because in light of what we know about the number 19, it becomes impossible to explain how all those multiples of 19 could come from the prophet randomly assigning position numbers to all the Surahs, and randomly assigning Quranic verses to certain Surahs, on his own accord.

• The most convincing option, in light of the Quran’s mathematical structure and because this is what verse 75:19 says, is that the prophet was given specific instructions regarding the Qur’an’s compilation. He was told by God what positional number to assign each Surah and verse, rather than randomly doing that by himself.

• If God revealed the Surahs and verses in their current order of compilation (i.e. revealing Surah 1 first, Surah 2 second, etc.) , then the way that the Quran was compiled into its current order (which is not its chronological order) would be far less of a miracle than it currently is.

The same applies to the 14 Quranic initials, as well as the missing Bismillah of Surah 9, the numbered Bismillah prefix of Surah 1, the extra Bismillah of verse 27:30, the decision to make 19 Surahs have standalone Quranic initials, and the decision to make Surah 42 be the only Surah to contain 2 standalone Quranic initials. All six of these things are equally strange aspects of the Quran’s compilation that turned out to be very crucial to the Quran’s 19-based structure.

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.

Now regarding the two false verses of the Quran, the question is: if God said in the Quran that it is preserved and that no falsehood can ever enter it, then why would there be two verses in today’s copies of the Quran?

The answer is because God only guaranteed that “the Quran” will be preserved, rather than “man-made copies of the Quran”. Falsehood cannot enter only the original Quran. This begs the question: What is the original Quran?

• The original Quran exists in two forms: physical, and oral.

• The physical form is inside the “guarded tablet” (verse 85:22). The oral form of the original Quran is the “tanzeel” (transmission) that came directly from God to the prophet (verse 41:42).

• Every written Quran that we produce is not the original Quran, but a physical copy of the original written Quran that exists with God. Every verse of the Quran that we recite is an oral copy of the original oral transmission (tanzeel) given to the prophet by God.

• God is not going to magically chop off anyone’s hand for writing mistakes in the physical Quran copies, nor destroy the vocal cords of anyone who accidentally makes a mistake in the oral Quran copies. When the Quran is guarded from falsehood, that means the original is guarded, not its copies.

Some might say, “When God says falsehood can never enter the Quran, that means the Quran is protected through mass memorization. Since mass-memorization did not filter out verses 9:128-129, those must be genuine verses.“

• But according to Sunni Islam, the Quran is missing the verse of stoning adulterers to death. (Tirmidhi, no 1432, graded Sahih). A sheep also ate the verse about breastfeeding adults (Sunan Ibn Majah 1944, graded Hasan). An entire Surah whose length resembles Surah 9 is missing from the Quran according to Sahih Muslim 1050.

• How could the Sunnis claim that large chunks of the Quran are absent from our memory today, if mass memorization is the tool that protected the Quran from falsehood and tampering?

• No, the only logical explanation is that when God says falsehood cannot enter the Quran, that means falsehood cannot enter the original copy of the Quran that exists with God in the “preserved tablet” (verse 85:22). The man-made written copies and the people’s memory of the Quran are not protected from falsehood and tampering.

• In order to make our man-made copies look and sound exactly like the original Quran, God put a built-in security system inside it based on the number 19. And that 19-based system is sounding the alarm about verses 9:128-129, informing us that they are false, man-made verses.

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 increase the faith and certainty for believers and People of the Book (Jews and Christians) and remove the doubts from their hearts.

This means the number 19 was destined in the Quran to prove the authenticity of the Quran beyond all doubts.

• As you have seen, the discovery of the Quran’s extensive 19-based mathematical composition is the fulfillment of this prophecy, proving beyond all doubts that the Quran is the truth and that God is real. Why? Because prophet Muhammad (who had zero knowledge of number 19) could not have unintentionally or unknowingly created a book with a highly complex mathematical structure based on the number 19.

God did not have to do this service for humanity, leaving behind such conclusive proof that He exists and that the Quran came from Him. God did not have to leave behind a security system to allow people access to the pure, unadulterated Quran. He does not owe a single thing to anyone except whatever He wants to owe us, while everyone owes everything to Him.

Yet, promises are promises, and God makes sure His promises are fulfilled.

And in that process, many unanswered questions became answered, such as:

• In what way does the Quran contain “clear proofs of the guidance” (verse 2:185)? How is the Quran itself the miracle of prophet Muhammad (verse 29:50-51)?

• How does the Quran confirm the previous scriptures (verse 5:48 and others)?

• What is the meaning of the Quran’s challenge to humanity?

• In what way is the Quran actually preserved?

• How to explain the mysteries involving the Quran’s literary structure (the initials, the missing Bismillah of Surah 9, the extra Bismillah in 27:30, why Surah 1 has its starting Bismillah as a numbered verse, the compilation of the Quran out of its revelation order, the unusual variability in chapter and verse lengths, and more)?

So, please enjoy this miracle, frequently express gratitude for it, and let this deepen your faith and dedication to God.