In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Appendix 29 of the Authorized English translation of Quran by Rashad Khalifa, Ph.D.

The Missing Basmalah

Every sura in the Quran opens with the statement "In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful," known as the Basmalah, with the exception of Sura 9. This conspicuous absence of the Basmalah from Sura 9 has been an intriguing feature of the Quran for 14 centuries. Many theories have been advanced to explain this phenomenon. Now we learn that the missing Basmalah plays a significant role as

  1. a significant constituent of the Quran's mathematical miracle, and
  2. a glaring sign from the Most Gracious, Most Merciful, that Sura 9 has been tampered with and must be purified (Appendix 24).

Both roles of the missing Basmalah were revealed with the discovery of the Quran's mathematical code. The following list of factual observations illustrate the miraculous features of the missing Basmalah:

[1] Since the Basmalah consists of 19 Arabic letters, and prefixes all the suras except one, it can be considered the foundation upon which the Quran's 19-based code is built. But the absence of the Basmalah from Sura 9 causes the number of this crucial opening statement to be 113, a number that does not conform with the Quran's code. However, we find that this deficiency is compensated for in Sura 27. Two Basmalahs occur in Sura 27, one as an opener and one in Verse 30. This restores the total number of Basmalahs in the Quran to 114, 19x6.

[2] From the missing Basmalah of Sura 9 to the extra Basmalah of Sura 27, there are 19 suras.

[3] The sum of sura numbers from the missing Basmalah (Sura 9) to the extra Basmalah (Sura 27) is 9+10+11+12+ ... +25+26+27 = 342, 19x18.

This is a mathematical property, any consecutive 19 numbers will add up to a multiple of 19. But the miraculous phenomenon is that this number, 342, equals the number of words from the first Basmalah of Sura 27 to the second Basmalah in 27:30.

[4] The occurrence of the extra Basmalah in 27:30 conforms with the Quran's code in that the sura number, plus the verse number is a multiple of 19 (27+30 = 57 = 19x3).

[5] The occurrence of the extra Basmalah in Verse 30 compares with the occurrence of the number 19 itself in Verse 30 (Sura 74).

[6] The Quran contains 6234 numbered verses. The absence of the Basmalah from Sura 9, and compensating for it in Verse 30 of Sura 27 gives us two numbered Basmalahs, 1:1 & 27:30, and 112 un-numbered Basmalahs. This causes the total number of verses in the Quran to be 6234+112 = 6346, 19x334.

[7] From the missing Basmalah to the extra Basmalah, the number of verses containing the word "Allah" is 513, 19x27. Note that 27 is the sura number where the extra Basmalah occurs. The data are in Table 1.

[8] The sum of verse numbers (1+2+3+ ... +n), plus the number of verses, from the missing Basmalah to the extra Basmalah is 119624, 19x6296. See Table 2:

Table 2: Suras & Verses From the Missing Basmalah to the Extra Basmalah.
SuraVersesSum of Verse #
91278128
101095995
111237626
121116216
1343946
14521378
15994950
161288256
171116216
181106105
19984851
201359180
211126328
22783081
231187021
24642080
25773003
2622725878
2729435
---------
3421951117673
1951+117673=119624=19x6296
Table 1: The Verses Containing the Word "Allah" from the Missing Basmalah to the Extra Basmalah.
Sura NumberVerses w/ "Allah"
9100
1049
1133
1234
1323
1428
152
1664
1710
1814
198
206
215
2250
2312
2450
256
2613
276
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342 (19x18)513 (19x27)

[9] This item also proves that Sura 9 consists of 127 verses, not 129 (see Appendix 24). The sum of digits of 127 is 1+2+7=10. By finding all the verses whose digits add up to 10, from the missing Basmalah of Sura 9 to the extra Basmalah of Sura 27, then adding the number of these verses to the total number of verses from the missing Basmalah to the extra Basmalah, we get 2128, or 19x112 (Table 3).

[10] Sura 9 is an odd-numbered sura whose number of verses (127) is also odd. From the missing Basmalah to the extra Basmalah, there are 7 suras that possess this property; they are odd-numbered suras whose numbers of verses are also odd. As detailed in Table 4, these are Suras 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 25, and 27. By adding the digits that make up the sura numbers and the numbers of verses, the grand total is 114, 19x6.

Table 4: The Odd-numbered Suras Whose Number of Verses are also Odd
Sura No.Sum of DigitsNo of VersesSum of Digits
9912710
1121236
134437
1569918
1781113
2577714
2792911
----
4569
45+69 = 114 = 19x6
Table 3: The Verses Whose Digits Add Up to 10, from the Missing Basmalah to the Extra Basmalah.
Sura No.No. of VersesNo. of Occurences
912712
1010910
1112311
1211110
13433
14524
15999
1612812
1711110
1811010
19989
2013512
2111210
22787
2311811
24646
25777
2622722
27292
---------
3421951177
(19x18) & 1951+177=2128=19x112

[11] The next two features authenticate both the missing Basmalah and he number of verses in Sura 9 (where two false verses had been injected).

If we take the same suras listed in Table 4, odd-numbered suras whose numbers of verses are also odd, and write down the number of every sura, followed by its number of verses, the resulting long number (30 digits) is a multiple of 19 (Figure 1).

9 127 11 123 13 43 15 99 17 111 25 77 27 29
Every sura number is followed by the number of verses in that sura.
This long number equals 19 x 48037427533385052195322409091.
[Figure 1]

[12] Let us take the last digit of all the verses from the missing Basmalah to the extra Basmalah. If we write down the number of every sura, followed by the last digit in every verse in that sura, we end up with a long number, of 1988 digits, which is divisible by 19 (Figure 2).

9 1234567890123... ... 27 1234567890 ... 789
The sura number is followed by the last digit in every verse number
from Sura 9 to Sura 27, Verse 29. [Figure 2]