We live in a time period that can be called the “Era of 19“.
From 1974, until the end of the world, this new era is the period of time during which the world enjoys the fulfillment of the Quran’s prophecy of 19.
What is the prophecy of 19? This is a Quranic prophecy, found in verses 74:30-31, which states that the number 19 will one day bring certainty to the believers and the People of the Book and increase their faith, while removing the doubts from their hearts.
Verse 74:31 lists five functions of the number 19:
- To be a trial for disbelievers
- To bring certainty to the recipients of the previous scriptures (Jews and Christians)
- To increase the faith of the existing believers
- To remove the doubt from the believers and the recipients of the previous scriptures
- To cause people to disbelieve by mockingly asking what God really meant by mentioning the number 19.
Here is the prophecy of 19 as it appears in the Quran:
- [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 their number (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—do not doubt, (5) and that the ones who have sickness within their hearts—as well as the disbelievers—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.
In other words, according to the Quran, the number 19 will someday, somehow, prove beyond all doubts that God exists and that Islam is the truth.
And now, we know how the prophecy of 19 was to be fulfilled, because it happened already. We know that the Quran has an extremely complex mathematical structure based on the number 19. You can read all about it by clicking this link,
Perhaps, when trying to create a mathematically structured book similar to the Quran, one can imitate and even exceed the Quran’s 19-based structure with time, effort, and the help of a brilliant team of mathematicians. But it would be impossible for any person, including prophet Muhammad, to do so by pure accident or random chance.
- Hence, it can be concluded without a doubt that prophet Muhammad could not have been the creator of the Quran. The true author of the Quran deliberately structured the book in such a way as to give it a complex 19-based mathematical structure, then tasked Muhammad with delivering it to the people.
Signs Other Than 19
We, the ones born in the Era of 19, are spoiled with the gift of certainty.
There are many religions and ideologies in existence, each providing its own claim to the truth. Hence, simply knowing with 100% confidence what the true religion is and who people are supposed to worship and serve is an immense source of happiness, comfort, and pride.
This knowledge should be a great motivator to do as much good as possible in this world and make as much of a positive difference in the world as possible. After all, that is expected of a Muslim.
As a result, this may prompt people to ask the following reasonable question: God decided to bless the generation of 19 with the gift of certainty, but what about those who lived before 1974? They had no knowledge of the number 19, so how could they have known what the true religion is?
Actually, it turns out that while the number 19 provides 100% certainty, there are other signs which strongly suggested (without providing full certainty) that Islam was the truth and that God existed.
Sign #1: Ghost Stories
In Indonesia, my girlfriend once rode past a cemetery with two friends. She was riding together with one of her friends on the friend’s motorbike, while the other friend rode a motorbike alone.
She said all three of them heard a woman laughing behind them, but neither she nor the friend that she was ridesharing with could identify the source of that laughter.
Strangely, the friend who was riding a motorbike alone saw a woman laughing behind them, but my girlfriend and the other friend was unable to see anyone.
In other words, all three heard the same laughter, but only one of them was able to see the spirit whom it was coming from.
An atheist might be tempted to dismiss ghost stories as hallucinations, but once you hear so many of them from completely sane and mentally healthy people, the idea there is no divine world makes atheism increasingly unlikely.
That is because if the spirit world (which is the world of jinns according to the Quran) exists and interacts with the human world from time to time, then the existence of God is far more likely than not.
- What else would metaphysical entities like spirits or jinns come from, if not the king of all metaphysical entities?
It was her story which prompted me to realize: if I ever was born and raised an atheist, I definitely would have converted away from it after hearing about ghost stories and thoroughly shattering my hypothetically pre-conceived atheistic worldview that there is no god, no spirit, no angels, no demons, and no spirit worlds.
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