THERE WAS NO HUMAN AUTHOR
In Chapter 27 - Sura Naml in verse 29 See Fig. below). He introduces
in most subtle manner the story of solomon the Wise and Bilqis,
the Queen of Sheba. Solomon was not only a worldly-wise man but
a Propher guided by God. On his neighbouring territory lived a benevolent
Queen ruling over a cultured people, but she and her people were
"mushriks" - sun-workshippers by faith. Solomon writes to her with
compassion for her and her people's spiritual welfare. She receives
the letter. She esteems it well, but how is she to obtain a voluntary
acceptance by her people to Solomon's invitation to the Religion
of God? She understands the psychology of her nation. if once the
leading chiefs among her subjects reject the invitation out of hand,
she will have to move heaven and earth to make them say "yes"
again. So she sets the court scene, calls up her Ministers and addresses
them:
29. "O Ye my Chiefs! Here is - delivered to
me - an Epistle deserving of (great) respect.
30. It is from Solomon, and is (as follows):
'In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful:
31.Be Ye not arrogant against Me, but come
to Me in total submission (to God's Will')."
{Holy Quran 27:29-31}
By a masterstroke of genius, our Author accomplishes His task of
completing the 114 "Seal" by so deftly inserting the "Bismillah"
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THUS COMPLETING IN VERSE 30 -
- THE 114 xxxx (B-ism Allah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem) SEALS.
- THE 19 xxxxxx (Name) WORDS.
- THE 2698 xxx (Allah) WORDS.
- THE 57 xxxxxx (Ar-Rahman) WORDS.
- THE 114 xxxxx (Ar-Rahim) WORDS.
Over it are nineteen.
in the middle of the Sura. At the same time He fullfills His numerous
other objectives in just three verse!
- He gets His 144th Seal to have them shared out - one each for
the 114 Suras of the Holy Quran.
- Herein, again He teaches a lesson to the 'lords of the earth'
not to be arrogent and haughty. Even as Rulers they must arrange
their affairs by "MUTUAL DELIBERATIONS" (H.Q. 42:38) and that
they should prepare their subordinates psychologically to accept
the Message.
- That when you do write, write as in the presence of your "LORD
MOST GRACIOUS, MOST MERCIFUL," Who is ever a Witness to all your
hidden thoughts and motives.
- Even from one earthly ruler to another, howsoever powerful the
writer, and howsoever holy the Message, he must do it in all humility
as the sight of God. And,
- While doing all this our Author has also completed:
- The 19 xxxx "Name" words of Quran.
- The 2698 xxxx "Allah" words of Quran.
- The 57 xxxx "Ar-Rahman" words of Quran.
- The 114 xxxx "Ar-Rahim" words of Quran.
Without this one "SEAL" in the middle of the verse 30
above, we should have been short of one each of all these words
as well as the complete Seal missing in Sura 9. Can you imagine
a dweller of the desert, fourteen hundred years ago, without any
learning and without paper and pencil, keeping record for twenty
three years - in his head of every "Allah" xxx word of the Quran, beside everything else we have seen so far?
and then "resting on the seventh day" when he found that
2698 was an exact multiple of 19? it seems that this man Muhummed,
if he did this job, must have nothing else to do in life and have
all eternity at his disposal to work out his mathematical equations.
On the contrary, he was the busiest man in history. Refer to La
Martine's quotations on Page 24 regarding
the multifarious roles of Muhummed. His pagan fellow countrymen
were fiercely opposing his reforms; the Jews, Christians and Munafiqs of Madina, were all bent on destroying him and his religion: with
his hands more than full, did he still have the leisure to keep
count? How credulous can one get! Were all these mere coincidences?
So far we have barely touched the mathematically marvels of Muhummed.
His (?) Book - the Quran is a unique Book in many respects. I as
a layman can give you a dozen unique qualities of this Book of God.The
scholars can no doubt give you more. Since we have been dealing
above with the mathematical aspect, let us here expand on it.
The Holy Quran is the only Book on the face of the earth, which
has at the heading of certain chapters, certain "Initials"
or "Code Letters" or as they are called in Arabic "Muqatta-aat" - meaning abbreviated letters. These Initials/Code Letters seem
to have no apparent meaning.
Out of a total of 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet exactly half
of them are involved in these Quranic "Initials." (See
Fig. 12). These 14 letters are constituted into 14 different Combinations.
(See Fig. 13). These 14 different Combinations are repeated in the
Holy Quran in 29 Chapters. (See Fig. 14). If we add the 14 "Initials"
to the 14 "Combinations" to the 29 "Suras," we obtain the total of 57, which happens to be an exact multiple
of 19. (19 x 3 = 57) (See Fig. 15). How did this happen? Coincidence
again? Please!
If we give a second glance to Fig.13, we will readily observe that
those 14 different Combinations consist of single, double, triple,
four and five letters each. Taking a "single" letter Sura for examination, our obvious choice will fall on Sura 68 which is
the last Sura in its traditional order of numbering, to have
an "Initial," thouth it was the very first "Initialed"
Sura to be revealed to Muhummed. It has the letter "Ê"
or "N" at the head of Sura Al-Qalam. for som scholarly
interpretations of this Quranic Initial, please see Abdullah Yousuf
Ali's commentary, Note No. 5592. But since we have found the number
"19" as a convenient key in our discoveries of the miraculous
nature of the Holy Quran, why not try and count the letter Ê "N"
which is really the first letter of Chapter 68. The answer is 133
Ê Divide by 19. A calculater will be very handy. The answer is 7!
19 x 7 = 133. (See Fig. 16) But please do not take my word for it,
do yourself a favour by visually counting the Ê for yourself.
You will get a spiritual exhilaration in doing so! it will not take
you 5 minutes. How did it happen that 133 Ê's are again the
exact multiple of 19? I shall not belabour you with the answer.
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As you will observe from the Fig. 14 that there are 2 other Suras
which have "single" Initials affixed to them. They are
Sura Qaf No. 50 and Sura Sad No. 38. Further there are 2 Suras which
have Þ Qaf as a common denominator, in Suras 50 and 42. Sura
No. 50 begins with a Þ and is also entitled "Qaf".
(See Fig. 17) See also Fig. 18 where Sura As-Shura (Chapter
42 has 5 letter combination ending with Qaf. If we add all the Í "Ha's" and the ã "Mim's" and the Ú "Ain's" and the Ó "Sin's" and the Þ
"Qaf's," we will get the grand total of 570 (19x 30).
Our Author hit the bull's eye again! It is getting to be heavy going!
Let us stick to a single letter - Þ "Qaf" the common
denominator between Sura 42 and 50. Why try to ride horses simultaneously
as in circus, when we have not mastered one?
You will note that we are dealing here with purely physical facts
which any one with eyes to see and the ability to count can verify.
He can examine this MIRACLE personally and testify that this
Holy Quran is not manmade. You do not have to know the Arabic
language as such to witness this awesome fact. No guesswork of conjecture
or interpretation of any sort is involved. Simply look for Þ a "head with 2 dots" Count these heads! Sura 50
has 57 (19 x 3) such "heads" AND Sura 42 has again
57 (19 x 3) such heads. Is this humanly or mechanically possible?
We will as the electronic computer later on.
Between the above 2 Þ Qaf containing Suras there are 114 Þ Qaf i.e 19 x 6. It is a reasonable assumption that Þ Qaf stands for the Quran, equally as "Q" is for Quran
and there are 114 Þs Qafs or "Qs," as the exact
number of the Sura in the Holy Quran, one for each and evey one
of them! In other words the Author is telling us that each and every
Chapter is the Quran, the whole Quran and nothing but the Quran.
It will take you just a few minutes to count these Qafs in each
of these Suras. You will really feel the miraculous nature of the
Holy Quran. To the Huffaz - those who have memorized the Quran,
I say, you must scan for these Þs Qafs from memory in your
head and see weather you can reach the exact total. If you fail
again and again then count them physically, you will then realise
how stupendous this feat is. If our Prophet did any such counts
and calculations, he would have had to do them in his head because
he did not know how to read or write (Holy Quran 7:157).
Even a super-genius would have encountered some difficulties in
accomplishing such a task. The real Author did not, but before anyone
jumps to the conclusion that it was simply a super "COINCIDENCE"
or that some spiritual "COMPUTER" had worked it all out,
He goes out of His Way to convince us that a Greater-then-human
Mind was involved in doing this job. Hypothetically of course, when
our Author completed the 2 Qaf containing Suras in his head (if
Muhummed had done it) he would have had to count all the Þs
Qafs and divide them by 19 and if the number was an exact multiple
of 19 then it would be perfect for him to dictate to his scribes.
Once dictated, he could never retract. This was his practice.
Let us say that Muhummed (?) was eminently successfull with Sura
42 with his 57 (19 x 3) Þs Qafs, but when he counted those
of Sura 50 to his amazement he counted 58; and 58 is not a multiple
of 19. Either he had to add some more verses to get 18 more Þs
Qafs to complete his units of 19 or eliminate 1 Þ Qaf. The latter course was easier of course. But which Þ Qaf to
eliminate? He begins at the beginning of Sura Þ Qaf, and
his problem would be over. But, No! This is the king pin of his
whole system to tell us that we were to count these Quranic "Initials"
and then divide them by 19 and discover the Ominiscient Mathematician
at work. In the past fourteen centuries, if a single Sura had been lost, out of the 114 then the number of Suras would no
longer be a multiple of 19. Nay, if a single one of the 14
letter of the Arabic alphabet had been added, deleted of tampered
with then again this marvellous interlocking mathematical system
would have fallen to pieces, and the Quran too would have joined
the rest of the Religious Scriptures of the world begging for REVISIONS.
The real Author has truely fulfilled His promise:
WE HAVE, WITHOUT DOUBT,SENT DOWN THE MESSAGE; AND
WE WILL ASSUREDLY GUARD IT (against corruption).
{Holy Quran 15:9}
Directly, about half the Quran is involved in this intricate mathematical
system in the 29 "Initialed" Suras as you see in Fig.
14. Indirectly, the whole of the Book of God is similarly protected.
You remember the 2698 xxx "Allah" words in the Quran?
On the average of 1 xxx "Allah" word for every 2 1/2 verse,
if a single sentence was added or deleted even in Allah's Name,
Allah's Own preserving system would have come to nothing. |
