The Quran's mathematical structure based on the number 19, centered on the Basmalah, its 19 letters and four words, with new findings by Katerina Kullman, including 1919 verses containing those words. A second article explains Hajj and Umrah as practices from Abraham, the corrected Sacred Months, each rite in order, and why visiting Muhammad's tomb is an added innovation.
This is one of the great miracles. A warning to human race.
For those among you who wish to advance or regress. (74:35-37)
God, the Almighty, the Creator of all things,
composed the entire Arabic text of the Quran with a remarkable mathematical
intricacy. The basis of this mathematical system is the number 19. Virtually
every element of the Quran contains 19 as the common denominator. For
example, the number of suras (chapters) in the Quran is 114, or 19x6.
The total number of verses in the Quran is 6346, or 19x334. The word “Allah”
(God) occurs in the Quran 2698 times, or 19x142.
Foundation of the Structure
The first verse of the Quran is In the name of God, Most Gracious,
Most Merciful. Arabic transliteration of the verse is “Bism
Allah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem.” This statement is commonly known as
the Basmalah.
Table 1. The 19 Arabic letters of the Basmalah with
English equivalents
Letter No
Arabic
English
1
ب
B
2
س
S
3
م
M
4
ا
A
5
ل
L
6
ل
L
7
ه
H
8
ا
A
9
ل
L
10
ر
R
11
ح
HH
12
م
M
13
ن
N
14
ا
A
15
ل
L
16
ر
R
17
ح
HH
18
ى
Y
19
م
M
The Basmalah is so special and unique that
it constitutes the foundation upon which the Quran’s 19 based mathematical
composition is built. It consists of exactly 19 Arabic letters (see Table
1). It is the opening statement in every one of the suras in the Quran,
except Sura 9. Since the Quran consists of 114 suras, a missing Basmalah
should have resulted in a total of 113 Basmalahs in the Quran, a number
which is not a multiple of 19. Yet, there are 114 Basmalahs in the Quran.
As it turns out, the missing Basmalah is compensated for in Sura 27, exactly
19 suras later if we start counting from 9. In other words, Sura 27 contains
two Basmalahs, one at the beginning and the other in Verse 30.
Not only is the missing Basmalah found 19 suras later, but also the
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sura and the verse number in which the extra Basmalah occurs adds
up to 57 (27+30), or 19x3. This is just a minute example to demonstrate
how the entire Quran is structured like a jigsaw puzzle with all
the pieces fit together in a 19-based mathematical system.
Four Words of the Basmalah
Each one of the Arabic words that make up the Basmalah occurs in
the Quran (excluding the unnumbered Basmalahs) in multiples of 19.
These words are Ism, Allah, Al-Rahman,
and Al-Raheem. Their English meanings are NAME, GOD, MOST
GRACIOUS, and MOST MERCIFUL, respectively. Note that the root word
ISM (name) is used as the first word of the Basmalah, instead of
BISM (in the name). Also, the words Rahman and Raheem
without the article “Al” (the) are also counted.
Table 2 shows the number of occurrences of the Basmalah’s
four words in the Quran.
It is remarkable that not only the numbers of occurrences of the
Basmalah’s four words are in
multiples of 19, but their multiplication
factors by 19 add up to 152, which also is a multiple of 19. There
are many other mathematical facts regarding the mathematical composition
of the Basmalah. For more information, please refer to “Beyond
Probability: God’s Message in Mathematics?Series One: The
Opening Statement of The Quran (The Basmalah).”
New Findings
Sister Katerina Kullman from Sweden made the following discovery
by God’s will and grace:
The occurrence of four words of the Basmalah in the entire Quran
happens to be in exactly 1919 verses. In order to get this number,
look at each (numbered) verse of the Quran, and count the verse
as one verse if it contains any of the four words of the Basmalah.
For example, Verse 1:1 contains the words of “Allah,”
“Al-Rahman,” and “Al-Raheem”, but it is
counted only once, not three times. Also, many verses contain multiple
occurrences of these words. They are still counted as one verse.
If this procedure is carried out for the entire Quran to see how
many verses contain any of the four words of the Basmalah, the result
is 1919. In other words, there are 1919 verses
in the Quran which contains at least
one of the four words of the Basmalah. This is the design of God,
the Most Wise. Be He glorified.
These 1919 verses occur in the Quran in 88 different suras. Katerina
observed that if she added 1919 to 88, added the result to 786 (the
ge-matrical value of the Basmalah), she got:
1919 + 88 + 786 = 2793 (19x147)
Another observation Katerina made involves the last word of the
Basmalah: “Raheem” (Merciful). This word is used in
the Quran exclusively as a name of God, and its total count is 114
(19x6), after removing the word “Raheem” of the false
verse 9:128, in which “Raheem” refers to the prophet.
When Katerina was working on counting the word Raheem using the
index of the words of the Quran, she first found 115 occurrences.
Then she realized that one of the occur-rences was in 9:128. Guess
what. When she added the numbers of suras and verses containing
114 words “Raheem,” she found out that their total came
up to be 9128. Glory be to God, Creator of all things.
Abdullah Arik
Table 2. The four words
of Basmalah and their number of occurrences in the Quran
Word No.
Arabic
English
No. of Occurrence
Factor of 19
1
Ism
Name
19
19x 1
2
Allah
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