Your god is one god; there is no god but He,
Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
(2:163)
The Quran is characterized by a unique phenomenon
never found in any human authored book. Every element of the Quran is
mathematically composed¾the suras, the verses, the words, the number
of certain letters, the number of words from the same root, the number and
variety of divine names, the unique spelling of certain words, and many other
elements of the Quran besides its content. There are two major facets of
the Quran’s mathematical system: (1) The mathematical literary composition,
and (2) The mathematical structure involving the numbers of suras and verses.
The number nineteen is the common denominator throughout the Quran’s
mathematical system. For example, the first verse (1:1), known as Bas-malah,
consists of 19 Arabic letters. The Quran consists of 114 (19x6) su-ras. The
total number of verses in the Quran (including the 112 un-numbered Basmalahs)
is 6346 or 19x334. Also 6+3+4+6 = 19. The to-tal occurrence of the word Allah
(God) is 2698, or 19x142. The total sum of the verse numbers for all verses
containing the word Allah is 118123, or 19x6217. These are just a few examples
and should alone suffice as incontrovertible proof that the Quran is God’s
message to the world. However, the Quran’s mathematical system is not
limited to the word Al-lah (God), it is extremely vast, ex-tremely intricate,
and totally compre-hensive. For more information, please refer to Appendix
1 of the "Quran: The Final Testament, Authorized English Translation by Rashad
Khalifa, Ph.D."
Why 19?
The "abjad" numerical system, as-signing a numerical value to each letter,
has been widely practiced be-fore the establishment of the Roman or Arabic
numerals as we know today. For example, in Arabic, the letter Alif (A) has
a numerical value of 1, and Bah (B) has a numerical value of 2, and so on.
If the people’s language were Hebrew, or Aramaic, they used the letters
of that language for numer-als. We now understand that the mathematical coding
of the Quran with the number 19 is based on the fact that 19 is the numerical
value of the word "wahid" (ONE). The fol-lowing is a study done by Dr. Cesar
Majul in 1984. It is reported again here as an answer to some people’s
question on 19.
The Word "One" Referring to God
In the text of the Quran, there are 19 and only 19 verses where the word
wahid ( ) is used to refer to or characterize Allah (God) as ONE.
It is to be recalled that the most im-portant or basic doctrine¾the
central theme¾of the Quran is that God is ONE. The Quran teaches that
God will forgive any sin of a repentant transgressor; but one offense He
will not forgive is that of ascribing part-ners to Him (39:53; 4:48; 4:116
...).
6+1+8+4=19=One
Applying the abjad numerical system (or gematrical values of the letters)
to the word wahid gives it the numerical value of 19:
Arabic Letters
of Wahid |
Numerical Value |
| W |
6 |
| A |
1 |
| H |
8 |
| D |
4 |
| Total |
19 |
The word wahid occurs 25 times in the total number of Quranic verses. Of
these, one verse refers to one kind of food. Two verses use the word to refer
to persons involved in inheritance shares. One verse refers to a gate. One
refers to watering, and another one refers to each of a pair of adulterers.
These account for six verses. The bal-ance of 19 verses refer to God’s
qual-ity (sifat) as being ONE. Table 1 lists all the verses in which the
word wahid (ONE) is mentioned.
Thus there are 19 and only 19 Quranic verses which use the word wahid as
exclusively referring to God’s Oneness. That this word also has the
numerical value of 19 is significant. This fact in the light of other
consid-erations, like the researches of Dr. Rashad Khalifa, cannot be another
accident or coincidence. Indeed, it is another instance of general pattern
in the Quran.
Note: Incidentally, the word wahidan ( ) is also found in the Quran to refer
to "one." It as such occurs five times. In 25:14 it refers to one’s
destruction. In 38:5 it refers to some persons trying to make many gods into
one. In 54:24 it refers to one alone among men. In 2:133 and 9:31, it refers
to worship of One God. But the numerical value of wahidan is twenty and not
nineteen. This comes about from the extra alif used for the tanwin at the
end of the word. Thus this word was not included in the list of 25 entries
in Table 1.
He looked. He frowned and whined. Then he turned
away ar-rogantly. He said, "This is but clever magic! This is human made."
I will commit him to retri-bution. What retribution! Thor-ough and comprehensive.
Obvious to all people. Over it is nine-teen.... This is one of the great
miracles (74:21-30, 35)
Dr. Cesar Majul
References:
1. Concordance of the Quran by Mu-hammad Fuad Abdul-Baqi
2. Concordance of the Quran by Hanna Kassis.
Table 1. The 25 verses in which the word wahid (one) is mentioned
in the
Quran, and the 19 cases where it refers to the oneness of God |
| Number |
Sura and Verse |
Nature of verse
(the word wahid refers to) |
Verses where wahid
refers to God |
| 1 |
2:61 |
one kind of food |
|
| 2 |
2:163 |
God as ONE |
1 |
| 3 |
4:11 |
one person in inheritence |
|
| 4 |
4:12 |
each of two in inheritence |
|
| 5 |
4:171 |
God as ONE |
2 |
| 6 |
5:73 |
God as ONE |
3 |
| 7 |
6:19 |
God as ONE |
4 |
| 8 |
12:39 |
God as ONE |
5 |
| 9 |
12:67 |
one gate |
|
| 10 |
13:4 |
watering |
|
| 11 |
13:16 |
God as ONE |
6 |
| 12 |
14:48 |
God as ONE |
7 |
| 13 |
14:52 |
God as ONE |
8 |
| 14 |
16:22 |
God as ONE |
9 |
| 15 |
16:51 |
God as ONE |
10 |
| 16 |
18:110 |
God as ONE |
11 |
| 17 |
21:108 |
God as ONE |
12 |
| 18 |
22:34 |
God as ONE |
13 |
| 19 |
24:2 |
each adulterer |
|
| 20 |
29:46 |
God as ONE |
14 |
| 21 |
37:4 |
God as ONE |
15 |
| 22 |
38:65 |
God as ONE |
16 |
| 23 |
39:4 |
God as ONE |
17 |
| 24 |
40:16 |
God as ONE |
18 |
| 25 |
41:6 |
God as ONE |
19 |
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