Praying Under Unusual Circumstances (2:238 – 2:239)

You Shall Observe the Contact Prayers*

2:238 You shall consistently observe the Contact Prayers, especially the middle prayer, and devote yourselves totally to GOD.

2:238 All five prayers are found in 2:238, 11:114, 17:78, & 24:58. When the Quran was revealed, the Contact Prayers (Salat) had already been in existence (). The details of all five prayers – what to recite and the number of units (Rak`aas) per prayer, etc. – are mathematically confirmed. For example, writing down the number of units for each of the five prayers, next to each other, we get 24434, 19×1286. Also, if we use [] to represent Sura 1 (Al-Faatehah), where [][][][][][][]4[][] produces a multiple of 19 (see ).