| Until Rashad Khalifa discovered the awesome mathematical miracle of
the Qur’an, most Islamic scholars believed this passage to relate to
angels; specifically 19 angels. Yusuf Ali, in his footnote 5793, states,
"The figure nineteen refers to angles appointed to guard Hell." Verse 31
does in fact relate to angels as guardians and that God has, "fixed
their number."
Muhammad Asad draws a different conclusion and translated the passage as,
"Over it are nineteen [powers]" and he states in his correspondingly long
footnote that, "…Razi advances the view that we may have here a reference to
the physical, intellectual and emotional powers within man himself." He goes
on to describe the nineteen powers as seven organic functions, five external
or physical senses, and five internal or intellectual senses. He then sums
up the argument by stating, "…that in the aggregate, it is these powers and
faculties that confers upon man the ability to think conceptually, and place
him, in this respect, even above angels."
How he or Razi deduced all of this from Q74:30 is beyond me and I must
confess that this is just one example where "man" has extended himself in
trying to analyze and draw conclusions from the Qur’an. Man has continually,
and sometimes erroneously, over analyzed and read much into the Qur’an’s
eternal message.
If the Qur’an had stated 18 or 20 instead of 19 they would have written that
there were 18 or 20 angels standing guard and only 18 powers, omitting one
from their list, or 20 powers and deduced yet an additional power to
complete their argument.
In both cases they assumed the word nineteen referred to "something" and
that nineteen was the count of those items – angels or powers. They
therefore gave in their translations a plural form to nineteen and therefore
used the word "are" instead of "is" within the verse. In both cases, as well
as many other translations, the verse is translated as, "Over it are
nineteen" instead of "Over it is nineteen" as does Rashad
Khalifa.
Why the difference? Until Rashad Khalifa was allowed by God to unlock the
mathematical miracle of the Qur’an, Islamic scholars were forced to view
"nineteen" as a number which counted something tangible, as in powers, or
something intangible, as in angels. They viewed the context of the verse
within the Surah and drew their conclusions.
Then what is the significance of nineteen and this Qur’anic verse? The words
"Over it" appear straightforward. "Over," according to Webster’s dictionary,
means to be above in position, authority, or scope as in to tower over them
or to obey those over you.
If we assume the singular form of nineteen, referring to a single thing or
being, then we would comply with the use of "is" and not the use of "are".
The use of the word "is" will become clearer when we discuss the term
nineteen.
The word nineteen only occurs once in the Qur’an and appears in this verse
and Surah. Its’ significance was discovered by Rashad Khalifa when he
unlocked the mathematical code of the Qur’an and launched a wave of
discoveries concerning the meaningfulness of nineteen.
It is not the scope of this article to discuss, at length, the detailed
discovery of the mathematical code. We will feature a series of articles on
this important break-through over the next several issues.
Suffice to say, the number nineteen permeates through, governs and
authenticates the authorship of the Qur’an as being from God. For no one of
this earth could have developed the intricate mathematical relationships
within the Qur’an while maintaining a poetic and stylistic literature that
has not been surpassed.
What is significant, for the purpose of this article, is that the number
nineteen refers to the mathematical code and also appears to be the
signature, if you will, of God. God has created, through this coding, a
means to authenticate and establish, without doubt, the legitimacy of the
Qur’an as being the work of God and not the work of man.
But why nineteen and why is it significant? All of God’s original
scriptures, not only the Qur’an, were apparently mathematically coded with
the number nineteen or its multiple. Even the universe bears God’s divine
signature. The number nineteen possesses unique mathematical properties
beyond the scope of this article, but for our purposes let’s consider just
the following:
1. The number nineteen is a prime number. In
other words it is only divisible by itself and one. Numbers such as 2, 3, 5,
7, 11, 13, 17, 19… are all prime numbers. God has chosen the number 19 as
his signature prime number.
2.
Nineteen embraces the first numeral (1) and the last numeral
(9), as if to proclaim God’s attribute in the Qur’an (57:3) as the "first
and the Last". "He is the First and the Last, and the Outward as well as the
Inward: and is established on the throne of His almightiness."
3. Nineteen looks the same in Semitic and
European languages. Both components, 1 and 9, are the only numerals that
look the same in these languages.
4.
Nineteen possesses many peculiar mathematical properties.
For example, 19 is the sum of the first powers of 9 and 10 (9+10=19) and the
difference between the second powers of 9 and 10 (100-81=19).
5. Nineteen is the gematrical value of the word
"ONE" in all the scriptural languages – Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic (please
refer to the insert concerning the definition of gematrical value). The
number 19, therefore, proclaims the First Commandment in all the scriptures:
that there is only ONE God.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 "Hear O Isreal the Lord our God is one Lord and thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy might."
Mark 12:29 "And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is,
Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:"
Qur’an 2:163 "And your God is one God: there is no god but He, most
Gracious,most Merciful."
Letter
| Hebrew |
Arabic |
Value |
| V |
W |
6 |
| A |
A |
1 |
| H |
H |
8 |
| D |
D |
4 |
| |
|
19 |
As shown in the table above, the Aramaic, Hebrew and
Arabic alphabets
use to double as numerals in accordance with a universally established
system. The Hebrew word for "ONE" is "Vahd" (pronounced V-AHAD). In
Arabic, the word "ONE" is "WAHD" (pronounced WAAHED).
6.
The Qur’an’s dominant message is that there
is only "One God". The
word "One" occurs in the Qur’an 25 times. Six of these occurrences do
not refer to God (one kind of food, one door, etc.). The remaining 19
occurrences refer to God.
7.
The word "God" occurs 2,698 times throughout the
Qur’an or a
multiple of 19 (2,698 = 19x142).
8.
The number of verses where the word "God" occurs add
up to 118,123
also a multiple of 19 (118,123 = 19x6217).
9.
On a more celestial level, the earth, sun and moon
become aligned in
the same relative position every nineteen years.
10.
Halley’s comet, a profound heavenly phenomenon,
visits our solar
system once every 76 years, which is 19x4.
11.
God’s stamp upon each of us is manifested in the medical fact that
the human body has 209 bones or 19x11.
12.
Langman’s medical embryology, by T. W. Sadler,
is used as a
textbook in most medical schools in the United States. 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 the 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 or 19x14 and 19x2 respectively.
The above examples are but a few of the hundreds of
19 based phenomena
embracing the Qur’an that have been identified by Rashad Khalifa. Most
of them are too complex to be mere coincidence. Over the next few
issues of Muslim Executive and Expatriate, we will feature many more of
these unique and truly divine revelations.
Until then perhaps we could revisit the Qur’anic
verse that is the
title of this article – "Over it is nineteen." Perhaps, for our own
purposes, we should consider a wider and more revealing explanation for
this verse; namely – "Over [the Qur’an] is nineteen." Or perhaps
on a
broarder and more all encompassing explanation – "Over [all things]
is
[one God]."
What is a "Gematrical Value"?
When the Qur’an was revealed, 14 centuries ago,
the number
system known today did not exist. An alphabetic system was
utilized whereby the letters of the Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic,
Greek and Roman alphabets were used as numerals. The
Roman numeral system (I, V, X, C, etc.) is still used
extensively today. The number assigned to each letter is its
"Gematrical Value." |
Source: Qur’an – The Final Testament, Rashad Khalifa, Ph.D.
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