Quran 74:30 is read as Over it is nineteen, against Yusuf Ali's angels and Muhammad Asad's nineteen powers, presenting 19 as God's signature on the Quran and on creation, from the gematrical value of ONE to the occurrences of the word God and the bones of the body. Letters from incarcerated readers give thanks for Qurans and newsletters, with a request for sponsors.
We appointed angels to be guardians of Hell,
and we assigned their number (19)
to disturb the disbelievers, to convince the Christians and
Jews (that this is a divine scripture),
to strengthen the faith of the faithful,
to remove all traces of doubt from the hearts of Christians,
Jews, as well as the believers, and
to expose those who harbor doubt in their hearts, and the disbelievers;
they will say, “What did GOD mean by this allegory?”
GOD thus sends astray whomever He wills, and
guides whomever He wills. None knows the soldiers of your Lord except
He. This is a reminder for the people. (74:31)
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Until Rashad Khalifa revealed the awesome mathematical
miracle of the Quran, 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
Quran. Man has continually, and sometimes erroneously, over analyzed and
read much into the Quran’s eternal message.
If the Quran 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
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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 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 Quran, 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 Sura and drew their conclusions.
Then what is the significance of nineteen and this Quranic 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 Quran. It appears in
Verse 74:30. Its significance was discovered by Rashad Khalifa when
he unlocked the mathematical code of the Quran 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. [For more information, the readers may refer to our publications
on this subject, including the English translation of the Quran
by Dr. Rashad Khalifa.]
Suffice to say, the number nineteen permeates through, governs
and authenticates the authorship of the Quran as being from God.
For no one of this earth could have developed the intricate mathematical
relationships within the Quran 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 Quran as being the work of God and not the
work of man.
WHY THE NUMBER 19?
But why nineteen and why is it significant? All of God’s
original scriptures, not only the Quran, 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 Quran (57:3) as the “First
and the Last.” “He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is
the Outermost and the Innermost. He is fully aware of all things.”
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 footnote concerning the definition
of gematrical value).
Hebrew Arabic Value
V W 6
A A 1
H H 8
D D 4
Total Gematrical Value 19
As shown in the table above, the Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabets
used to double as numerals in accordance with a universal system.
The Hebrew word for “ONE” is “Vahd” (pronounced
V-AHAD). In Arabic, the word “ONE” is “Wahd”
(pronounced WAAHED).
The number 19, therefore, proclaims the First Commandment in all
the scriptures: that there is only ONE God.
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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 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:”
Quran 2:163 “And your God is one God: there
is no god but He, most Gracious, most Merciful.”
6. The Quran’s dominant message is that
there is only “One God”. The word “One”
occurs in the Quran 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 Quran 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 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 Quran that have been identified by Rashad Khalifa.
Most of them are too complex to be mere coincidence.
Perhaps we could revisit the Quranic
verse that is the title of this article — “Over it is
nineteen.” For our own purposes, we should consider a wider
and more revealing explanation for this verse; namely — “Over
[the Quran] is nineteen.” Or perhaps a broader and more all
encompassing explanation— “Over [all things] is [one
God].”
Raymond A. Klesc
Footnote:
What is a “Gematrical Value”?
The gematrical value is the numerical value assigned to the letter
of an alphabet. When the Quran 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.”
For example, the Arabic letter “Alef” (A) has a gematrical
value of 1, and “Bah” (B) has a gematrical value of
2 and so on.
Voice of the Incarcerated
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Dear Sir/Maam
As-salaamu Alaikum
I am writing you in concern of the book I was requesting for called “Quran:
The Final Testament” by Rashad Khalifa.
I just had the blessing by the grace of Allah, to receive the book I
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I want to extend my deepest gratitude because without you, I would never
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Respectfully
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…I have been practicing Islam just since 1997, but MashaAllah,
[God] has blessed me to take my Shahadah [on] 2/27/98: To come to understand
the truth as the practice of Islam based on the Quran, not Hadithism.
I place my trust in Allah that He keep me on the straight path, guide
me to live up to my Muslim name, and all praise to Him for bringing me
out of the stages of darkness, deaf, dumb, and blind.
I find your articles illuminating: It helps my growth and understanding;
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misunderstanding of Islam here in the west….
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