Amazing Link between First Revelation and Laylatul Qadr

While looking to verify something different in Surat Al-‘Alaq 96, I counted the number of words and letters in the first five ayat (96:1-5), which is said to be the first portion of the Quran to be revealed to prophet Mohammad (pbuh). The results are 21 words and 76 letters. If we add these two sums (something I often do with meaningful results), the total is 97, which is the number of Surat Al-Qadr, describing Laylatul Qadr, the night in which the Quran was sent down to the prophet.

It was the Spirit Jibreel (archangel Gabriel) who “brought it [the Quran] upon your [Mohammad’s] heart” (2:97), and the verse number that mentions this is also numbered 97! We can consider this to possibly mean all the Quran came down into the prophet’s heart, of which portions would be revealed over time. And it could also be that these five ayat were revealed in that same night. And so a connection between the sum of words and letters in these first revealed words and the night of their revelation could be made.

The Quran’s Astronomical Accuracy in One Small Detail, and More

The Bible, The Quran and Science, by Maurice Bucaille (Seghers, 1976), a French physician, famously correlates a number of significant and relatively recent scientific discoveries with the Quran’s text. It spawned a great deal of interest, leading to people finding many similar correlations. While recently rereading it, I found mention of the distance of the sun from our galactic center at the time of the book’s writing. It was in reference to an aya (31:29) which states “He has subjected the sun and the moon, each orbiting for an appointed term,” which corresponds to the orbit of the sun around the center of our galaxy, a detail that was unknown even long after the Quran was sent. Note that such correspondences are not intended to “prove” a scientific fact but rather to show Allah’s power and knowledge as Creator. Being curious, I looked up the most recent and accurate estimate of that distance and discovered a fascinating connection.

Gold Discovered in Gaza!

And it’s something the Israelis will never be able to find.

Perfect Numbers and the Name Al-Rahman

This is a revelation of amazing correlations between the sura:ayat numbers where the name Al-Rahman occurs, and “perfect numbers,” explained below. The name Al-Rahman, when interpreted as the Almighty, forms a clear Yang/Yin relationship with the name Al-Raheem, the All-Merciful with which it is paired in the Basmalah, the invocation that begins all suras except one. A previous post describes the significance of the name Al-Rahman. Here we get even closer to the heart of the miracle regarding this powerful name. Studying the sura and aya numbers for all references for a word or phrase in the Quran can often seem like an exercise in futility, especially considering the earliest known manuscripts of the Quran do not contain such numbers. But with the name Al-Rahman, the results are two perfect numbers (explained below) multiplied by 100 whose sum is equally spectacular, and closely intertwined with other significant Quranic numbers to form a whole only the Almighty Al-Rahman Himself could have made.

Historical Fact in Quran No One Could Have Known Until Recently

Dr. Louay Fatoohi explains in detail the historical reasons why the Pharaoh (in one aya, his “chiefs”) in the story of Moses (and he tells us exactly which Pharaoh this is most likely to be) in the Quran kept saying that Moses was conspiring to drive them from their land, per 7:109-110 (his chiefs), 7:123, 20:57 and 20:63 (latter 3 spoken by Pharaoh). He goes through the scholars’ explanations and why they are unsatisfactory, then the archaeological and other evidence that explains why this was actually an important and plausible fear in their minds. And how that information was known only recently; this question and other elements of this particular story in the Quran is not addressed in the Bible, making it a clear sign of information that only Allah could have known at the time of Mohammad (pbuh).

Meaning and Truth Is So Much More than Miracles

There is much speculation about numbers in the Quran, their interrelationships, and the idea of finding “miracles” in them. In fact, my previous post was all about Quranic miracles (examples very hard to debunk), not simply because they were clearly extraordinary, but because they were relevant to the message of the Quran as a whole. Although I’ve studied numerical relationships in the Quran somewhat extensively, “finding miracles” was never my aim, but rather finding meaning. For example, what I found remarkable in studies done to show that the Quran doesn’t comply with  Zipf’s Law (then claim it is therefore a miracle) was not so much its “noncompliance” as the fact that the first two words in order of frequency in the Quran are min Allah, which means “from Allah.” This means something. Whether or not it “miraculously” complied with Zipf’s Law…in itself does not. Because what is so important about Zipf’s Law in itself? And these sorts of things can be debunked. Why? Well, mathematics itself is kind of miraculous. 

A Confluence of Miracles

This guy brings up many Quranic miracles of which I’d only heard of the “even and the odd.”

First, watch/listen. Then, I’ve parsed it out so you can delve into what you may have missed.

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.

The Verse of Light in the Quran, Quantum Physics, and More – Video

Surprising Plausible Alternate Interpretation of Al-Khidr from Sura 18 Al-Kahf

In Surat Al-Kahf, a sura with many unusual occurrences whose meanings and explanations have been variously interpreted and re-interpreted, we read the story of prophet Moses (Musa) meeting, after a special “sign” was revealed (a cooked fish jumping miraculously into the water, alive), someone who “was given knowledge from Allah” and whom Moses wanted to follow and learn from. He is not named in the Quran, but referred to by people anecdotally as Al-Khidr (a word derived from “green”). I have written a post about him here. (Featured fish picture above reminds us of the “sign” given to prophet Musa.)

But in this Quora post, we read a very different and fascinating possibility: that Al-Khidr was not a “human with specialized knowledge from Allah” but an angel who appeared to Moses in human form — as have other angels mentioned significantly in the Quran. The post explains why he was likely not a human being — because he killed a boy based on a future prediction, which is not allowed for people. It does make sense also in that “Al-Khidr” refused to eat — a sign that the “man” was not human which also occurred with an angelic visitation in human form that occurred with prophet Abraham (Ibrahim). Both Moses and Abraham were somehow disturbed when the “man” refused food. (The Quora post does not mention this latter bit of evidence, but despite that this possibility of him being an angel had never occurred to me. Kudos to the author!)

The Scales of Justice in the Quran, with Stunning Precision

Surat Al-Rahman 55:7 introduces the concept of the Scales of Justice in the Quran as follows:

And He raised the heaven and He established the balance.

The scales of justice are mentioned in a number of places, and in the process of analyzing suras that contain them, I noticed a distinct pattern regarding the scales, indicative of Allah’s justice and mercy enacted on Judgment Day, when the “balance” will be a measure of how people’s deeds will be judged. Here I’ve used word and letter counts, where the words represent Allah the Exalted’s “input” which would be decrees or commands, such as the word “Kun” in Arabic or “Be!” is a word-command mentioned in the Quran for creation. His “words” are then commands or decrees unlimited as per this aya from 31:27: “And if all the trees on earth were pens, and all the oceans were ink (with seven more such oceans to help), the Words of Allah would not be exhausted.” Letters, then, could represent our input, in this case the human deeds that are being weighed. And throughout the entire Quran, mentions of the Justice Scales used on Judgment Day to weigh good and bad deeds follow a precise pattern.

Surat Al-Qadr 97, Night of Celestial Power

This spectacular sura appears to be simple and easy to understand, but examined in greater depth, unleashes its power, as shown in the analysis below.

The Quran Constant, a Divine Math-based Text Security System

Extensive studies have been made regarding mathematical miracles, text-number relationships or elements, numerological patterns, structural details, and other aspects of the Quran, but none of these I’ve read is like this article regarding the Quran Constant by Dr. Khaled M. S. Faqih (a professor at Al al-Bayt University in Jordan) in the Journal of Arts and Humanities, which can also be downloaded as a pdf. Essentially, the Quran Constant QC is a number which is key to preserving the text of the Quran from any distortion whatsoever. The author’s expertise in systems analysis gives him the sophisticated mathematics understanding to develop such a constant using the Uthmani manuscript, which is both authenticated (in close relationship to the Birmingham Manuscript) and has been extensively analyzed by a team under the guidance of Dr. Al-Kaheel from which studies the numbers used were derived. Below is a summarizing description of the constant, its major perimeters, and what it does. It is nothing short of miraculous.

The 9 Signs of Moses in the Quran

This is something I’ve wondered about, what were the ”nine signs” mentioned in 17:101: “And We had certainly given Moses nine evident signs, so ask the Children of Israel [about] when he came to them and Pharaoh said to him, ‘Indeed I think, O Moses, that you are affected by magic.’”

And here is the clear answer, derived from the Quran: the Nine Miracles of Moses.

Amazing Sura 99 Al-Zalzala, the Quake

Sura 99 Arabic and English

Audio of Surat Al-Zalzala 99

Surat Al-Zalzala, “The Quake,” describes what will happen in the final approach of the Hour, the Finality, Al-Akhira, also known as the Day of Resurrection and Judgment Day. All these terms apply because then time as we know it ceases to be and we enter the realm of the Almighty, “timeless” in that all means of assessing “time” are broken down: the heavens and the earth and their complex orbits, interlocking relationships, and very composition, all is upended in an incomprehensible way, the ultimate unimaginable undoing. The sura itself, however, focuses on what is relevant for humankind: our fate, and the coming Judgment. To show how that Judgment is eminently balanced, just, and equitable, we shall closely examine the text. This includes the word and letter counts of the Arabic text to reveal how precisely this sura is put together, even though we cannot, of course, grasp every detail. Above is the sura in Arabic with a slightly different English translation for reference (“scattered groups” instead “separated into categories”), my translation of the Basmalah being “In the Name of Allah, the Almighty, the All-Merciful.” Also an audio link is above to hear the powerful sound of the original Arabic words.

Quran Violates Zipf’s Law, Unlike Any Human-Authored Book

Quran written on Chinese paper.

For those who need scientific evidence that the Quran comes from Allah — whose signature is at the top of this evidence — look no further than the law that applies to ALL human languages and books: Zipf’s Law, which “states that given a large sample of words used, the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table. So word number n has a frequency proportional to 1/n.” In other words, if the first word is used 100 times, the second word should be used half that many or 50 times, the third word a third as many times or 33.3 times, etc. (See the amazing video at the bottom of this page to learn how pervasive in all human language this law is. But the producers of that video did not know about the Quran…yet.)

The “large sample” could be a book, such as Moby Dick or the Bible, or all of Wikipedia. All of these follow Zipf’s Law. In fact, all languages follow Zipf’s law. But the Quran does not! Not only that, but Allah the Omniscient Almighty embedded the reason the Quran does not follow Zipf’s law in the actual word rankings compiled from its text: min Allah – which means “from Allah.” He literally signed the results!

The Moon-Splitting in the Quran: Sign of Resurrection or Mohammad’s Miracle?

In Surat Al-Qamar 54:1, the Quran states “The Hour has come near, and the moon has split asunder. 54:2: “And if they see a sign, they turn away and say: ‘Ongoing magic!’” The word “Hour” clearly refers to the Day of Resurrection, the word “sign” being aya which can have multiple meanings per my previous post. Some scholars, such as M.A.S. Abdul-Haleem and Sheikh Mohammed al-Ghazali, say this refers to one of the signs of the Day of Resurrection, others that it actually refers to a physical miracle given to Prophet Mohammad, or perhaps both. Here we discuss how the moon-splitting described in the Quran is clearly a sign of the approach of Judgment Day when studied in context of the surrounding verses and the significance, purpose, and meaning of ayat/“signs” in the Quran as a whole. Does this mean it cannot be Mohammad’s miracle? What is the best evidence for the truth?

Quran Interpretation and the Meanings of the Word “Ayat”

Ancient ammonite fossil resembling the chambered nautilus

What is the Meaning of the word ayat? How one interprets this word can make a huge difference in how one understands major issues in the Quran, because although it is a short word, relatively confined in meaning, it is used extensively used in the Quran. It has two basic meanings, two major purposes, and four distinct applications interpreted according to context. 

Evidence of Quranic Architecture as Divinely Ordained

As explained in my Quranic Architecture page as well as Quranic Architecture Summary post, this site presents an entirely new vision of the Quran’s arrangement (order of surahs) and organization (from mid-life in time to edges-of-life closer to timelessness) as forming a spiral correlated to the shape of a chambered nautilus shell, where each surah fits into a separate chamber, naturally descending in size from outer to inner with the final Surah Al-Nass – people – in the center. It shows how the Quran’s message is not randomly arranged but rather forms a surprisingly precise fit in what has become known as an especially beautiful example of sacred geometry found in nature. The discovery of the Birmingham Manuscript pictured above, showing chapter divisions clearly marked and radiocarbon dated to the period of prophet Mohammad’s lifetime, provides physical evidence that this precise arrangement of surahs was indeed sent by Allah the Exalted with the text itself, described with more proofs below.