The 40 Tawheed Statements in the Quran, their Placement and Meaning

The basic statement of tawheed, Allah’s singularity or “oneness,” is  لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ or lā ilāha illā Allāh, explained here. This Basic Tawheed Statement is also the form of the Shahada or Islamic creed declaring there is no god but Allah – the name Allah being a form of the word “god” in Arabic that can only be One God. Since tawheed is the central tenet of Islam – monotheism – this statement is of course central to the Quran’s message. 

There are six main variations of it, the most frequent being lā ilāha illā hua or لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ, which means “no god except Him,” mentioned in the Quran 30 times (with 4 variations in how this expression is framed). The total mentions of all forms of Tawheed Statement are 40, itself a significant Quranic number. Thus, there are 30 Tawheed Statements containing the words lā ilāha illā hua out of 40 total mentions in the Quran of all variations of Tawheed Statement, a significant {3,4} pairing, a structural pattern in the Quran based on the Arabic name Allah (the Most High). The contexts of these statements give us a range of insight into the meaning of tawheed (oneness/ singularity) itself. 

Allah’s Miraculous Creation Statement

Allah the Exalted states in the Quran that He creates whatever He wills by a word: كُن فَیَكُونُ

بَدِیعُ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَ ٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰۤ أَمۡرࣰا فَإِنَّمَا یَقُولُ لَهُۥ كُن فَیَكُونُ the Originator of the heavens and the earth. When He decrees a thing, He only says to it, “Be!” and it is. (2:117)

This expression in Arabic above contains 7 letters. It appears in the Quran 8 times in the following Quranic ayat, starting with the one above: (2:117), (3:47), (3:59), (6:73), (16:40), (19:35), (36:82), (40:68). When we add all the sura reference numbers, the sum total is 125 (5³). If we take the number 5 to represent hands (from our human perspective), this is an exponential representation of “the Hand of God” — in the form of words. Next, add all the verse reference numbers, to get the sum total of 521 which is, amazingly, the 100th prime number! An utterly celestial number, representing 100%, completion/perfection in an indivisible way, being prime. But notice 125 and 521 are also reverse digits!

Now, what if we added all the sura numbers to the verse numbers? It should yield the same results as adding the above numbers 125+521=646. As an additional check, we did this anyway and added the results, which did in fact yield the sum of 646, a palindrome, with two prime factors: 17 x 19. The number 17 is the prime “half” of 34, itself related to a significant {3,4} pattern in the Quran’s very structure as well as text. The number 19 is significant in the Quran — but the Quran’s inimitable structure is more complex than division by a single factor. And more miraculous than we could imagine.

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The World Cup brings thousands of people to watch the soccer competition between teams from around the world, usually dominated by European teams and the two famous South American teams. But this year, for the first time ever, the World Cup is being hosted in Qatar, the first Muslim nation to host the games. The soccer games had many surprises, such as the first African team, Morocco, to ever reach the semifinals in a World Cup. But although it has to do with soccer, not religion or culture, outside the stadiums there is much more to the story, as CJ Werleman explains.

Why Does the Quran Focus on Al-Akhira?

This is one of the most important questions one can ask. Faith in Allah is indelibly entwined with faith in Al-Akhira, the Hereafter. The life of this world is temporary and is, according to the Quran, only a test, but the Hereafter is everlasting. This understanding is in some ways – at the least, as an emphasis on higher “eternal” values – the basis for all major religions. There are however differences in Islam, which gives a clear and balanced approach to the subject.