This is a very real possibility, which I began to examine while thinking that possibly all numbers somehow relate to or are reflective of Allah’s name. That seems way beyond my limited mathematical abilities – yet after studying the Quran in details, I ran into a simple pattern expressed in two ayat, 4:3 (itself a {3,4} set) and 35:1, as “two and three and four,” essentially a {2,3,4} set, which in turn reflects the {3,4} set, as expressed in Allah’s name. I’ve discussed this {3,4} set previously as well as how Allah “wrote mercy upon Himself” (6:12 and 6:54). Here finally is a post that covers this topic.
This represents Ulam’s Number Spiral , where a doodle (this image) revealed unexpected previously-unknown diagonal patterns in prime numbers. The name ”Ulam” is similar to the Arabic root for ”knowledge” or “scholar.”
This study of Sura 92’s word and letter counts brought entirely unexpected results on closer examination. The Quran expresses its message, its truth, in powerful and eloquent words, and also within these words, numerical relationships of precision and beauty, using the language of math like a true language, complete with nuance, even rhyme and reason, certainly complexity that is beyond the scope of my knowledge. To interpret them requires viewing numbers as more than mere quantitative bits of data. No, they have qualities and are symbolic as well, which doesn’t occur in a vacuum but rather in their context — in the world around us, in life and everything else. Here are numbers that give precision to this sura’s beauty, and reveal how much Allah has put into simply guiding us. Imagine then this is from Allah the Almighty All-Merciful, and imagine Who then is Allah and what does He give us in this Quran — nothing less than a lifeline to His love.
One of the ways one can appreciate what it means to be omniscient is to consider that Allah knows things that are unimportant to us in any conceivable way. Of course, what makes these things seem unimportant is our ignorance of the whole.
And with Him are the keys of the unseen; none knows them except Him. And He knows what is on the land and in the sea. Not a leaf falls but that He knows it. And no grain is there within the darknesses of the earth and no moist or dry [thing] but that it is [written] in a clear record.
Consider what it means to know whenever a leaf falls anywhere—on planet earth or any other place in the universe. When we think about knowing everything, we think more about, say, the “theory of everything.” And of course, only Allah keeps the “clear record.” We might think it superfluous to record every moist and dry thing in existence, but when examining the genetic code (for this discussion of Surah 112), I found that the hydrophobicity (water-repelling) or hydrophilicity (water-accepting) of “codons” (the building blocks of DNA) directly relates to their functionality, and how all life is created and differentiated. So this rather unheralded statement of seemingly unnecessary knowledge is “key” to the genetic code!
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