An intricate mathematical code,
far beyond the ability of human intelligence, has been discovered
imbedded in the fabric of the scripture. Like an ancient time
capsule, it remained hidden until our knowledge grew sophisticated
enough to decode its intricacies. This code was deciphered by
computers.
The discovery of mathematically coded scripture
assures us that the verses, words, letters and all parameters of the
original scripture were written down in accordance with an intricate
pattern that is clearly superhuman.
The first indication of this mathematical
composition was in the 11th century by Rabbi Judah the Pious. In a
book entitled STUDIES IN JEWISH MYSTICISM (Association for Jewish
Studies, 1982, p. 91), Joseph Dan writes that Rabbi Judah and his
disciples developed a theory that:
...the words and letters of the various prayers are
not accidental, nor are they only vehicles for their literal
meaning. Their order, especially their numbers, reflect a mystical
harmony, a sacred divine rhythm. This mystical harmony can be
discovered in historical events, directed by God; in nature,
especially in the miraculous occurrences directly influenced by
divine powers; and first and foremost, in the Bible. According to
Rabbi Judah and the Ashkenazi Hasidic school in general, there can
be nothing accidental in the Bible, not even the forms of letters,
the punctuation, the vocalization, and especially-in the numerical
structures-the number of certain letters, consonants or vowels in a
certain verse; the number of words from the same root; the number
and variety of divine names in a certain pericope, the absence of
one or more letters from a chapter, and many other elements of the
Scriptures besides their content.
Nine centuries after Rabbi Judah stated these
elements of the code, the computer has demonstrated each of them. As
detailed in this chapter and the next, the original scripture was
mathematically composed in a way that encodes and guards every
single one of its parameters. If the scripture were tampered with,
the code would be broken.
Joseph Dan writes that Rabbi Judah was critical of
the French and British Jews when they altered the morning prayer by
adding a few words (Ibid., p. 88). Rabbi Judah pointed out that such
an addition destroys the numerical structure of the prayer and
renders it utterly nullified. He maintained that it is the
"numerical combination," rather than the "meanings" of the words
that effects the needed contact between the worshiper and God. Even
the specific, nineteen-based, numerical system of the scripture was
reported by Rabbi Judah:
The people [Jews] in France made it a custom to add
[in the morning prayer] the words: " 'Ashrei temimei derekh [blessed
are those who walk the righteous way]," and our Rabbi, the Pious, of
blessed memory, wrote that they were completely and utterly wrong.
It is all gross falsehood, because there are only nineteen times
that the Holy Name is mentioned [in that portion of the morning
prayer] ...and similarly you find the word 'Elohim nineteen times in
the pericope of Ve-'elleh shemot.... Similarly, you find that Israel
is called "sons" nineteen times, and there are many other examples.
All these sets of nineteen are intricately intertwined, and they
contain many secrets and esoteric meanings, which are contained in
more than eight large volumes. Therefore, anyone who has the fear of
God in him will not listen to the words of the Frenchmen who add the
verse "'Ashrei temimei derekh," and blessed are the righteous who
walk in the paths of God's Torah, for according to their additions
the Holy Name is mentioned twenty times...and this is a great
mistake.
Furthermore, in this section there are 152 words
(152 = 19 x 8) but if you add "'Ashrei temimei derekh" there are 158
words. This is nonsense, for it is a great and hidden secret why
there should be 152 words...but it cannot be explained in a short
treatise. ...In order to understand this religious phenomenon, we
have to take the basic contention of this treatise exactly as it is
stated: every addition or omission of a word, or even of a single
letter, from the sacred text of the prayers destroys the religious
meaning of the prayer as a whole and is to be regarded as a grave
sin, a sin which could result in eternal exile for those who commit
it.... (STUDIES IN JEWISH MYSTICISM, pp. 88-89)
WHAT DOES
IT MEAN?
The discovery of numerical structures within the
scriptures and the divinely instituted liturgies have resulted in a
number of important conclusions. Some of these conclusions appear in
STUDIES IN JEWISH MYSTICISM (Ibid., p. 92):
(1) No change can be tolerated in the text of the
prayers, not even a minute one, because every change-even of one
letter-would destroy the numerical harmony inherent in the text....
(2) The liturgy received new importance and new
meaning within the framework of religious practice. A completely new
dimension was added in this way to the daily prayer service; it
stopped being just a reciting of requests and praises of God in
ancient formulas, and became a vehicle for becoming a participant in
a mystical, divine harmony. The prayers suddenly received a new
depth of meaning and importance, which was undreamed of in the
thousand years that had passed since they were formulated.
Joseph Dan reports that "the fierce polemical tone
of Rabbi Judah's criticism of the changes introduced by the
`Frenchmen' in the prayers can therefore be explained as a result of
his fear that the prayers may be regarded as completely human in
origin and meaning, making them secular and meaningless in religious
and mystical practices." Rabbi Judah was also fearful that changes
to the prayer would disrupt the mystical dimension and break the
connection with God that they created:
According to him [Rabbi Judah], even if the context
and meaning of the prayer is religious, expressing love and devotion
to God, it still will be just "a secular song like that of the
non-Jews" if it does not have the added mystical dimension of hidden
truth [the mathematical composition], which cannot be revealed by
the literal meaning of the words alone. In his polemic, Rabbi Judah
does not defend only the specific tradition of prayer which he
received from his parents and teachers; he also defends prayer as an
elevating force, forming a connection between man and God, a
connection that no mere words can achieve. (STUDIES IN JEWISH
MYSTICISM, pp. 92-93)
The divinely instituted liturgies, in their
original, unaltered words, are so numerically composed that they can
be compared to the combination of a locked safe; we need to dial
that specific combination to establish contact with our creator.
This is probably why the daily prayers were called in Aramic and
Hebrew SLA and in Arabic SALA which means "contact" or "connection."
Because of this understanding, Rabbi Judah warned
his neighbors in France and England that if they allowed any change
in the text of the prayers, their prayers would become "like the
songs of the uncircumcised non-Jews." Free expression of feelings,
religious or secular, was regarded by Rabbi Judah as a non-Jewish
song, which has no place in the framework of worship. Obviously, the
slightest change, even of one letter, would destroy the divinely
composed numerical system and thus, the "combination" to open the
lock and establish contact with God would not work.
IMPORTANCE TO OUR
SUBJECT The discovery of mathematically
authenticated scripture provides a totally unexpected opportunity to
explore the validity of our understanding regarding religious
disputes such as divinty of Christ or Moses parting the red sea. If
there were a scripture which was proven to be unaltered by human
beings, it would give us a safe point of reference for our study.
The idea of mathematically composing a literary work
is certainly novel to human thinking, and unique to the scriptures.
The numerical pattern serves both as an authenticating tool and as a
guard to protect and preserve the scripture. Obviously, finding
original, unaltered scripture is of crucial importance. The
slightest change in the text of a mathematically coded literary work
would disrupt or utterly destroy such a code; the mathematical
pattern would simply disappear. As pointed out by Rabbi Judah,
"every addition or omission of a word, or even of a single
letter...destroys the religious meaning of the prayer as a whole and
is regarded as a grave sin." From a purely mathematical point of
view, the slightest change renders the pattern non-existent; 76, for
example, is a multiple of 19, but 77 or 75 is not.
There is proof that one scripture is completely intact, and
perfectly preserved. Unlike other known scriptures, this one still
exists in its original, untranslated language-just as it was
revealed 1400 years ago. It is known to be complete, with no loss of
any of the original revelation.
Western access to this scripture has been limited by the fact
that the people to whom it was originally delivered have all but
buried it with their cultural tradition. They believe that it is the
basis of their religious belief, when in fact, what they practice
generally goes contrary to its teachings. This scripture is the
Quran.
In a recent translation of the Quran, the translator emphasizes
the role of the number nineteen as an authenticating code for the
Quran. In 1968, through computer decoding, and totally independent
of the work of Rabbi Judah the Pious, Dr. Rashad Khalifa discovered
that an extremely intricate 19-based numerical structure encodes and
guards every aspect of the Quran.
In the second edition of his translation QURAN: THE FINAL
TESTAMENT (Islamic Productions, 1989), Khalifa refers to Rabbi
Judah's work, and suggests that nineteen represents God's own
signature on everything He created. He also provides the first
plausible explanation for the prominence of the 19-based
mathematical pattern throughout the scriptures, as well as the
universe. In his appendix entitled "19: The Creator's Signature"
(Ibid., p. 709) Khalifa writes:
The scriptures are not the only mathematically composed creations
of God where the number 19 is the common denominator. It is profound
indeed that Galileo made his famous statement: "Mathematics is the
language with which God created the universe." A plethora of
scientific findings have now shown that the number 19 represents
God's signature upon certain creations. This divine stamp appears
throughout the universe in much the same manner as the signatures of
Michelangelo and Picasso identify their works. For example: 1.The
sun, the moon, and the earth become aligned in the same relative
positions once every 19 years (see the ENCYCLOPEDIA JUDAICA under
"Calendar").
2.Halley's comet, a profound heavenly phenomenon, visits our
solar system every 76 years, 19x4.
3.God's stamp on you and me is manifested in the fact that the
human body contains 209 bones, 19x11.
4.LANGMAN'S MEDICAL EMBRYOLOGY, by T. W. Sadler, is used as a
textbook in most of the Medical Schools in the U.S.A. On Page 88 of
the Fifth edition, we read the following statement: "In general the
length of pregnancy for a full term fetus is considered to be 280
days or 40 weeks after onset of the last menstruation, or more
accurately, 266 days or 38 weeks after fertilization." The numbers
266 and 38 are both multiples of 19.
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." Such are corrupt;
they do abominable deeds; there is not one who does good. The Lord
looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be
one who is wise and seeks God. All alike have gone astray.... [Psalm
14:1-3]
Mathematical composition of a literary work is a totally new
concept, though we now realize it has existed for centuries in
sacred writings. Since it is a new concept, a brief explanation may
be of help.
Suppose you are asked to write a book with the stipulation that:
1.Chapter 3 is to contain exactly 532 of the letter `S'.2.Chapter
8 is to contain exactly 209 B's, and 779 T's.3.Chapter 6 is to
contain exactly 133 of the letter combination `ING.'4.And the total
number of sentences must be exactly 57,152.
You will then try to write this hypothetical book, carefully
counting and keeping track of those letters and the number of
sentences in order to conform with the specifications given to you.
As you conform to these specifications, you must write down words
and sentences that make sense and tell the reader something
important having to do with the subject of your book. This is a
simple example of mathematical composition.
These specifications can be increased or decreased to create
varying degrees of complexity. The specific counts of certain
letters, numbers of specific phrases, numbers of sentences and
totals of verse numbers can soon become so interlocking that it
becomes virtually impossible to compose such a book.
Mathematically composed liturgies were reported by Rabbi Judah
the Pious in the 11th century. To my knowledge, a recent analysis of
the Torah has not been done to see if this code is still intact in
the entire scripture, but we have already discussed indications that
there have been some alterations in the Torah, at the very least in
reference to the sons of Abraham. These alterations would have
seriously disrupted the code.
The Gospels have been shown to have many problems in their
transmission to us. In their present form, they are not good
candidates at all for such an analysis.
The Quran, which was revealed in A.D. 610-630, is the only
scripture that is known to still exist in its original language, and
form. It is also the only book known to be mathematically coded
throughout.
All the parameters of the Quran-the numbers and sequences of
chapters; the number of verses; the numbers assigned to each verse;
the number of words; the number of certain specified letters; the
number of words from the same root; the number and variety of divine
names; the absence of one or more letters from a word, verse or
chapter; the unique and often strange spellings of certain crucial
words; and many other elements-are all authenticated by its
mathematical code.
How was this code discovered in the Quran?
Before we can answer that question we need to know a
little about a unique feature in Quran-a phenomenon not found in any
other literature. Twenty-nine chapters of the Quran are prefixed
with certain letters of the Arabic alphabet, or `Quranic Initials.'
Ever since the Quran was revealed more than 14 centuries ago, Muslim
and orientalist scholars have been trying to decipher the meaning
and possible significance of these mysterious Quranic initials, but
to no avail. They remained a mystery to all.
Finally, a Muslim scientist and computer expert
named Rashad Khalifa entered the Quran into the computer in hopes of
finding some pattern which would explain these initials. Khalifa, a
Ph.D. chemist, later on the roster of scientists called `Technical
Assistance Experts' with the United Nations Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO), began his computer study as part of the
research for his translation of the Quran into English. The result
of his extensive research was the discovery of an intricate
mathematical system which pervades the whole Quran and governs every
possible parameter, including its initials.
Dr. Khalifa's discovery is extremely significant,
especially since it matches the findings of Rabbi Judah the Pious.
The common denominator of the Quran's mathematical code, the number
nineteen, was reported by Rabbi Judah "in the liturgy, in the
Scripture, in nature, in historical events and throughout the
universe."
Thus, God's `signature,' the number nineteen,
encodes and guarantees every letter and every parameter of the Quran,
and intact portions of the Torah. It also places the Creator's stamp
on our own creation, on major historical events, on the
sun/moon/earth interactions and throughout the universe.
Why haven't you heard about this? Here in the West, Rashad
Khalifa's work has not received the attention it deserves. Only two
`Western' comments on his momentous discovery are noteworthy. The
first comment appeared in the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN of September 1980.
Martin Gardner wrote of Khalifa's initial publication in the West: I
later discovered that the author of this monograph, Rashad Khalifa,
is an Egyptian who received a doctorate in biochemistry from an
American university, where he also taught for a time. His monograph
was published privately in the U.S. in 1972.... Dr. Khalifa's
monograph attempts to show that 19 appears throughout the Koran too
often to be there by chance. The number of suras in the Koran is
114, a multiple of 19. A famous verse called the Basmala ("In the
name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful"), which opens every
sura but one, has 19 letters. Its first word (ism) appears 19 times
in the Koran. The second word (Allah) is found 2,698, or 142 x 19,
times. The number of times the third word (al-Rahman) appears is 57,
which is also a multiple of 19, as is the number of times the fourth
word (al-Raheem) appears, 114.
It's an ingenious study of the Quran, but it could have been more
impressive if Khalifa had consulted me before he wrote it. Nineteen
is an unusual prime. For example, it's the sum of the first powers
of 9 and 10 and the difference between the second powers of 9 and
10. (Scientific American, Sept. 1980, p. 22)
Three years later the Canadian Council on the Study of Religion
reported in its QUARTERLY REVIEW of April 1983 that the code Khalifa
discovered is "an authenticating proof of the divine origin of the
Quran."
Since 1983, little notice has been taken of this work. In spite
of that, Dr. Khalifa's work has been published in the United States
in six books:
1.MIRACLE OF THE QURAN:
Significance of the Mysterious Alphabets, Islamic Productions, St.
Louis, Missouri, 1973.
2.THE COMPUTER SPEAKS:
God's Message to the World, Renaissance Productions, Tucson,
Arizona, 1981.
3.QUR'AN:
The Final Scripture, Islamic Productions, Tucson, Arizona, 1981.
4.QURAN: VISUAL
PRESENTATION OF THE MIRACLE, Ibid, 1982.
5.QUR'AN, HADITH AND ISLAM,
Ibid, 1982.
6.QURAN: The Final
Testament, Ibid, 1989.
In the Middle East, the story is a little different.
Beginning in the late sixties, this work received wide publicity
throughout the Islamic world, rendering Khalifa's name a household
word. By the end of 1973, Rashad Khalifa had become a popular hero,
commanding full-house audiences as he lectured at the universities,
mosques, organizations, and even royal and presidential palaces.
However, his discovery led to unavoidable
conclusions which ran contrary to certain basic beliefs of the
traditional Muslim clergy. These conclusions boil down to a total
rejection of the `Islamic traditions' which have been added onto the
religion over the centuries, and a return to the pure teachings of
Quran alone. Consequently, Khalifa's popularity was reversed and his
life threatened in a number of Muslim countries.
Before Khalifa incurred the wrath of the Muslim
clergy, many popular magazines and newspapers in the Middle East,
from Morocco to Pakistan, reported his discoveries. Millions of
summaries in pamphlet and bulletin form are still secretly
circulating among the Muslims of the world.
Khalifa's first publicized report appeared in the
most popular magazine of the Middle East, Egypt's AKHERSA (January
24, 1973). Updates of his research were subsequently published by
the same magazine (November 28, 1973 and December 31, 1975). Many
other magazines and newspaper articles by and about Khalifa appeared
throughout the world in many languages.
Then, very early in the morning on January 31, 1990,
Rashad Khalifa's life was taken by one or more assassins who had
broken into his office in Tucson, Arizona, and waited for him. There
is no doubt that his life was taken in an attempt to stem the
growing rejection of distorted Islamic tradition and a return to the
Quran alone-a movement which he spearheaded.
DETAILS
INTRODUCED
The Quran was recorded as it was revealed-in fragments which were
separated in both time and place, and positioned like the pieces of
a jigsaw puzzle into the final scripture. Since the order of
revelation is different from the order of final position, two
consecutive verses may be separated by as much as two years and 300
miles according to their chronological revelation.
THE CODE -
SIMPLE FACTS
Though the code was initially discovered by examining the
occurrences of Quranic initials in the initialed chapters of Quran,
there is a large number of much less complex parameters to the code.
Here is a brief listing of some of them:
1.There
are 114 chapters in the Quran, or 19 x 6.
2.The
total number of verses in the Quran is 6346, or 19 x 334.
3.Then you
add the 30 different numbers which are mentioned in the Quran's text
(i.e. one God, two brothers, etc.), the total is 162146 or 19 x
8534.
4.The
first statement in Quran, "In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most
Merciful" consists of 19 Arabic letters. Known as the `Basmalah', it
prefaces every chapter except Chapter 9.
5.Though
missing from Chapter 9, exactly 19 chapters later the Basmalah
occurs twice. Chapter 27 has this statement at its beginning and in
verse 30. This makes the total number of times the Basmalah occurs
in the Quran 114, or 19 x 6.
6.Since
there are 19 chapters between the missing Basmalah and the extra
one, the sum of those chapter numbers is a multiple of 19. (The sum
of any 19 consecutive numbers is a multiple of 19.) But the total,
342, is also the exact number of words between the two occurrences
of the Basmalah in Chapter 27. This number, 342, is 19 x 18.
7.Every
word in the Basmalah occurs throughout the Quran a number of times
which is a multiple of 19.
8.The very
first revelation that was given to the prophet of Islam, Mohammed,
came as 19 words.
9.The
total number of letters making up the 19 words of the first
revelation is 76, 19 x 4.
10.Though
they were the first revelation, these verses are placed at the
beginning of Chapter 96. This chapter is atop the last 19 chapters.
11.Chapter
96 consists of 304 Arabic letters, or 19 x 16.
12.The
last chapter revealed (Chapter 110) has 19 words, and its first
verse is 19 letters.
13.God's
name in Arabic, `Allah,' occurs in the Quran 2698 times, or 19 x
142.
14.If you
add the numbers of the verses where `Allah' occurs, the total is
118123 or 19 x 6217.
15.The
main message in the Quran is that there is only One God. The number
of times that the word `one' is used to refer to this concept of One
God is 19.
16.The
word `Quran' occurs in 38 different chapters, or 19 x 2.
17.The
total number of times `the Quran' is mentioned is 57, 19 x 3.
18.Within
the 114 chapters of the Quran, 29 of them begin with the Quranic
initials discussed earlier. Intermixed between the first initialed
chapter (Chapter 2) and the last initialed chapter (Chapter 68) are
38 non-initialed chapters, or 19 x 2.
19.In that
same group of chapters, from Chapter 2 to Chapter 68, there are 19
alternating sets of initialed and non-initialed chapters.
20.The
total number of verses making up this group of chapters is 5263, 19
x 277.
21.Within
this group of chapters there are also 2641 occurrences of the word
`Allah', or 19 x 139. Of course, that leaves 57, or 19 x 3,
occurrences of that word outside of this group.
22.If you
add the chapter and verse numbers of the 57 occurrences of `Allah'
outside the initialed section, the total is 2432 or 19 x 128.
23.There
are a large number of discoveries having to do with the numbers of
the chapters and verses. Many of them are very complex and
interrelated. Here is a simple one to give you a feel for these
discoveries: If you add the numbers assigned to all the chapters,
plus the numbers assigned to all of the verses, plus the number of
verses in the Quran, the total is 346199 or 19 x 19 x 959.
24.If you
look at the initialed chapters separately and add the chapter
numbers, verse numbers and number of verses, the total is 190133, 19
x 10007. Of course it follows that the total for the uninitialed
chapters, 156066, is also divisible by 19.
There are a great many more discoveries, most of them more
complex than the ones presented above. Additional discoveries
continue to be made as Dr. Khalifa's work is carried on by the many
students of pure Quran he left behind.
You may already be convinced that this interlocking occurrence of
the number 19 is too frequent to be accidental. If not, the next
section dealing with the Quranic initials should dispel your doubts.
QURANIC
INITIALS
As we discussed earlier in this chapter, it was the search for an
explanation of the Quranic Initials which led to the discovery of
the code imbedded in the Arabic text of this scripture. These
initials exhibit many aspects of the code, when looked at as
individual sets and when looked at as a whole.
Let us begin by looking at the initials which use a single
letter. The first one we will examine is the initial which has the
English transliteration of `Q'.
THE INITIAL `Q.' (Qaaf)There are several special phenomena having
to do with the initial Q. Perhaps it can be seen as standing for
Quran. This is especially so since there are two Q-initialed
chapters, each with 57 (19 x 3) Q's in them. Thus, the total of Q's
in both chapters is 114 (19 x 6), the same number as the number of
chapters in the Quran.
The fact that both Q-initialed chapters contain exactly 57 Q's is
quite remarkable because the first of them (Chapter 42) is more than
twice as long as the second (Chapter 50).
There is another remarkable phenomenon in the sum of the number
of each chapter with the number of verses in that chapter. Chapter
42 has 53 verses; 42 plus 53 is 95, 19 x 5. If we look at the other
Q-initialed chapter, 50, it has 45 verses; 50 plus 45 is also 95.
THE INITIAL `N.' (Noon)This initial prefixes only one chapter,
number 68. The total number of occurrences of N in this chapter is
133, or 19 x 7.
THE INITIAL `?.' (Saad)? prefixes three different chapters, 7, 19
and 38. The total occurrences of ? in these three chapters taken
together is 152, or 19 x 8.
Most of the time the initials occur together in sets. Next, we
will examine some of these sets.
THE INITIALS `Y.S.' (Ya Seen)These two initials are found at the
beginning of Chapter 36. The number of times that these two letters
appear in this chapter is 285, or 19 x 15.
THE INITIALS `H.M.' (Haa Meem)This set of initials is found
initializing the seven consecutive chapters 40 through 46. The total
occurrence of these two in all of these chapters is 2147, or 19 x
113.
THE INITIALS `Á.S.Q.' (Ayn Seen Qaf)Chapter 42 is the only
chapter with a set of initials (H.M.) in the first verse and another
(Á.S.Q.) in verse two. The number of times the letters of this
second set of initials are in Chapter 42 is 209, or 19 x 11.
CONCLUSION
There are more sets of initials which we could discuss. All of
them exhibit similar phenomena to those we have examined. Much more
detail is contained in the appendix of this book.
From this short presentation, it is easy to see that the
substitution or removal of any word containing one of the initials
in an initialed chapter would break the code in that chapter. As the
initials become more complex, the difficulty of writing readable and
meaningful sentences increases. In some cases the only way that the
code could have been written into the Quran was for the language to
have been invented around it!
The patterns exhibited in the initialed chapters added to the
simpler parameters discussed earlier make an awesome network of
coding which pervades the very fabric of the Quran. All this clearly
required divine control.
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