Endless Miracle of the First Chapter

In
this article I will present recently discovered mathematical phenomena
in the first chapter of the Holy Quran (The opening chapter). The first
chapter of the Holy Quran is named "Al Fatiha" "الفاتحه"
which means "The key" i.e. "The chapter that starts the Book". This
chapter is of tremendous importance in Islam and in the life of Muslims.
It is recited in order to glorify Allah - God Almighty and it is a
prayer wherein the reciter asks Allah for guidance and support. A Muslim
recites this chapter at least 17 times in the 5 daily prayers. Without
it the prayer (Salat) is not complete. The significance of this
particular chapter can be seen in the fact that it is placed at the very
beginning of the Holy Quran. This chapter has 17 different names such
as: "Book's Mother", "Doubler Seven" (since it has 7 verses and each two
verses explain each other), it is named also "The Cure", "The
Sufficient", "Base", "Gratitude", "Treasure" and many other names.
Here's the original revealed text in Arabic (Followed by English translation):

ENGLISH: "In the name of God, The Compassionate, The Merciful; Praise be to God; the Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds(a); The Compassionate, The Merciful; Master of the Day of Judgment. Thee do we worship, and thine aid do we seek. Show us the straight way; The way of those on whom Thou hast bestowed Thy Grace, Those whose portion is not wrath, And who go not astray." (a) All creation

As
can be seen the reciter of this chapter will be expressing the main
pillars of faith and in the words of Prophet Muhammed (Peace be upon
Him) "this chapter is equivalent to the whole Quran".
Before
proceeding to the mathematical phenomena found here I would like to
make a point clear about the Holy Quran. The Holy Quran is the word of
Allah - Jehovah God that was revealed unto Muhammed (محمد)
son of Abd Allah son of Abd Al Mutalib of the House of Hashim between
the years 610 CE and 632 CE. The Quran was revealed in Arabic language.
It was written down and learned by heart by Prophet's followers during
his life ime and it was gathered short time after his death. The way
words are wirtten in the Quran is also a revelation by God through arch
angel Gabriel (Peace be upon him). The Quran has 7 different recitation
versions (called Qira'at - singular: Qira'a) that follow different
dialectis spoken by the Arabs at time of revelation. The different
Qira'at don't differ in conveyed meanings and messges. Diffrences among
them take the form of alternating ways of reading some words (a thing
that expands the meaning of the verses) or the differences concern the
way verses are numbered (joined together or split apart). Again
differences that has no impact on overoall meaning. In fact, the
different Qira'at constiture the ultimate challenge and miracle of this
Scripture.
When it comes to the first
chapter of the Holy Quran the main difference among the different
Qira'at, that concerns what will be presented here, relates to the first
verse of this chapter. Some Qira'at count it as an integrated part of
the chapter (i.e. that it is verse number 1) while others do not count
it as part of this chapter. The opening verse is "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم" which means "In the name of God, The Compassionate, The Merciful". This opening verse has its own mathematical wonders as can be seen here.
Most of what will be presented here relates to Qira'at such as the
recitation of Qaloon An Nafia' (where the opening verse is not numbered
and counted as part of chapter). Other phenomena seen in recitations
such as that of Hafs An A'asim (where the opening verse is part of the
chapter) will also be presented.
Some information about this chapter:

• It has 7 verses
  
• It consists of 29 words (and two conjunctive waws - واو العطف)
  
• It consists of 139 letters
  
• It's the 5th revealed chapter of the Holy Quran
  

Now to the mathematical wonders of this chapter:
Many of the phenomena presented here relate to the key miracle number in the Quran number 19. This number is a prime number which means that it is divisible only by itself and one. But why 19 ?! Is there a divine reason for using the number 19 instead of some other number as a coding number for Scripture ?! Besides being a prime number, the number 19 is the gematrical value
of the word "ONE" in all scriptural languages Aramaic, Hebrew, and
Arabic. For example, in Arabic, the word for "ONE" is "WAHD" "واحد". The gematrical values of the letters W, A, H, and D are 6, 1, 8, and 4, respectively. These numbers add up to 19 (6+1+8+4=19).
Therefore, the number 19 can be looked at to signify the First Commandment in all scriptures that there is only ONE God.


1st Fact
Many
of the facts presented here concern the letters of the first chapter as
they are represented by numerical values. I guess one of the simplest
ways to represent the first chapter is by giving each letter a value
according to its order of appearance among all the letters making up the
whole chapter. Let us take an example. Here is a popular translation
for the very first words revealed by God in Genesis chapter one.



As
can be seen above each letter gets a value representing its order of
appearance in the verse. A repeated letter gets the same initial value
it was assigned.
The first word of chapter number one of the Holy Quran is "الحمد" (pronounced "Al-hamd" meaning: praise). Alef ( ا ) is the first letter of this word and gets thus the numeric value 1. Lam ( ل ) is the second letter to appear and gets the value 2. We continue assigning values in this manner: H'aa' ( ح ) gets the value 3, Meem ( م ) gets the value 4 and Dal ( د )
gets the value 5. This process of assignig letters values according to
thier order of appearance in the chapter is continued until the end of
the chapter. Letter Dad gets the highest value of 21 (it is the last
letter to appear among the words of the chapter).
Doing
this regarding the first chapter of the Holy Quran (without opening
verse following the recitation of Qaloon An Nafia') and putting the
values for each letter side-by-side right-to-left (as Arabic language
is) we get a huge number consisting of 165 digits. This number is
perfectly divisible by key miracle number 19 (i.e. with no remainder).
Here is the number:

Numerical values for the 21 letters that compose the opening chapter of the Holy Quran (without opening verse). Each letter gets a value according to its order of appearance in the chapter.	The 120 letters that make up the opening chapter of the Holy Quran (without opening verse) accompanyed by a number value that signifies each letter's order of appearance in the chapter.

The huge number and result of division can be found in this plain text file.
A table with all letters and their values can be found here.


2nd Fact
We
do exaclty the same as in fact number one to the first chapter of the
holy Quran witth the exception that the process of assigning lettes
values starts from the opening verse itself. The opening verse is
regarded as an integral part of the first chapter in some recitations,
whereas in others it is not. The opening verse is "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم" which means "In the name of God, The Compassionate, The Merciful".
The first letter is Baa and gets thus the numeric value 1, the second
letter to appears is the letter Seen and gets thus the value 2, the
third letter to appear is Meem and gets the value 3. As we can see the
Arabic letters get different numeric values than those deduced under
fact number one.
After finding out
the numeric values of the 21 letters that compose the first chapter of
the Holy Quran as described above, we represent each letter of the
chapter (without the opening verse itself - the part from "الحمد لله رب العلمين" - English: "Praise to God.."
to end of chapter) by the deduced values. Putting these values
side-by-side right-to-left results in a huge number consisting of 163
digits. This number is also divisible perfectly by key number 19.
Here is the number:
The huge number and result of division can be found in this plain text file.
A table with all letters and their values can be found here.


3rd Fact
Here
and in the next three points we will be using letter-value systems
derived from the Holy Quran and we will be dealing with the first
chapter of the Holy Quran following the recitation of Qaloon An Nafia'
(i.e. without the opening verse). There exist some letter-number tables
where each letter of the Arabic alphabet is given a particular numerical
value. These systems are based on numerous research and findings in the
Holy Quran. Each time, we will be giving each letter of this chapter a
value according to the table of interest and put all values side-by-side
right-to-left.
The first
letter-value system we will be using is based on the names of Allah -
Jehovah God mentioned in the Holy Quran. The special thing about this
table is that many names of God, using these values, get totals that are
all divisible by 11. The word Allah - God - الله
itself gets the total 11. Number 11 is a prime number (it cannot be
devised by numbers other than itself and one). This number signifies God
Almighty. the eternal unchanged Creator.
To mention some of the names of God in the Holy Quran: The Beneficent (الرحمن), The Merciful (الرحيم), The Sovereign Lord (الملك), The Guardian (المهيمن), The Omniscient (العليم). Full list can be found here: Names of God in Islam (Wikipedia)
Here's the table:
So,
we take each letter of this chapter, assign it a value accoridng to
this system and put all the values side-by-side right-to-left. The
number we get consists of 163 digits. This huge number is divisible by 19. It is also divisible by 7 which is also a key miracle number.
The huge number and resulkt of division can be found in this plain text file.


4th Fact
We
use yet another letter-value system. This time a table which is based
on the number of occurrences of the Arabic language letters among the
mysterious Quranic initials. Some chapters of the Holy Quran are
initiated by mysterious strings of letters, such as A, L, M (الم) or E, S (يس).
These letters convey no semantic meaning and no one is 100% sure what
is the ultimate purpose of these letters but many researchers maintain
that these are challenging keys that hide numeric systems &
phenomena that prove the Divine origin of this Book. There are 29
Quranic initials (14 unique ones - i.e. repeated excluded) which are
made of 14 unique letters out of the 28 letters making the Arabic
language alphabet.
In this table each
letter of the 14 letters appearing among the Quranic initials takes a
value according to how many times it appears among the 29 initials.
Letters not appearing among the initials take the value zero.
Here's the table:
So,
we give each letter of the opening chapter a value according to this
table and put the numbers side by side right-to-left. The result is a
169 digit number that is also divisible by 19.
The huge number and result of division can be found in this plain text file.



5th Fact
The
next letter-value system is based on the above metioned Quranic
initials but this time each letter is assigned a value according to its
order of appearnce witihin the initials. The first initial is A, L, M (الم) in chapter number 2, therefore the A ( ا ) gets the value 1, L ( ل ) gets the value 2 and M ( م ) gets the value 3. We do the same to the rest of the initials' letters up to the last letter N ( ن ) (in chapter 68 - The Pen) which gets the highest value of 14. Here is the table with the values:
We
give each letter of the opening chapter a value according to this table
and put the numbers side by side right-to-left. The result is a 138
digit number that is also divisible by 19.
The huge number and result of division can be found in this plain text file.



6th Fact
Here we apply a third letter-value system named Islamic Gommal (الجمل الإسلامي).
This table is based on the meaning of Arabic words in the Holy Quran
where the values different words take reflect semantic relationships
among them. The system is based on the occurrences of Arabic language
roots in the Holy Quran. Here is the table extracted after research of
the words of the Holy Quran:
Giving
each letter of the opening chapter of the Holy Quran a value according
to this table and putting the values side by side right-to-left provides
a number consisting of 316 digits that is divisible by 19.
The huge number and result of division can be found in this plain text file.
Note:
The facts mentioned above (In facts 3, 4, 5 and 6) all concern the
first chapter of the Holy Quran without the opening verse (as in the
recitaion of Galoon An Nafia'). For letter-value table under fact 3 we
still get a huge number divisible by 19 even when having the opening
verse as part of this chapter. Pay attention that the same letter value
systems mentioned under fact 3 & fact 4, when applied to chapter 76
"Human being", give huge numbers (+1429 digit) that are both divisible
by human chromosome number (46) which was discovered in the year 1955 by
advanced microscope techniques.


7th Fact
Most
of the above mentioned facts concern the first chapter of the Holy
Quran without the opening verse (as in the recitation of Qaloon An
Nafia'). An interesting fact is that this chapter (without a numbered
opening verse) contains 19 Alef (A) ( ا ) letters! The special thing about the letter Alef is that:
a. It is the first letter of the first chapter of the Holy Quran (without opening verse), that is in the word Alhamd - الحمد - (Praise).
b. It was the first revealed letter of the Holy Quran (First verse of chapter 96).
Letter
Alef relates to numerous mathematical phenomena in the Holy Quran. For
example it relates to human chromosome number in chapter 76 (named Human
being - الإنسن),
as there are exactly 199 Alef letters in that chapter. The truly
interesting thing is that 199 is the 46th prime number in the universe
and that human beings have 46 chromosomes (different species have
different number of chromosomes, e.g. the elephant has 56 chromosomes
while the hoopoe bird has as many as 126 chromosomes). This same
number, 199, can be seen in different places in the Holy Quran in
relation to human creation. In fact, prime numbers themselves are
building blocks of the Holy Quran as has been established by numerous
findings. Here is the table with the A ( ا ) letters in chapter one:



8th Fact
Number 19 keeps to surprise us. As can be seen in the table under fact number 9, there are exactly 19 words containg one or more of the three letters making the word Allah ( الله
) - God in the first chapter (as in most of the facts presented so far:
without opening verse). The three letters that build the word Allah
are: Alef ( ا ), Lam ( ل ) and Haa ( ه ).


9th Fact
The
mathematical wonders of the Quran are not restricted to number 19 but
include also the number 7. Both 19 & 7 are prime numbers which means
that they are divisible merely by themselves and one. Holy Quran's
verses and prophet sayings point to the centrality of number 7 in the
Holy Quran and creation. This number is also central in Biblical
studies. The first chapter of the Holy Quran consist of 7 verses
(including the opening verse). There are lots of phenomena in the first
chapter that relate to the number 7. When counting the number of Alef ( ا ), Lam ( ل ) and Haa ( ه
) letters (the ones that make the word Allah - Holy Quran's author) in
this chapter (including opening verse) we find them to be 49 letters. The number 49 is equal to 7 × 7. The total without the opening verse is 41 which is an established value of the word Allah ( الله
) - God as deduced from the occurrences of the mysterious Quranic
initials (to increase our confidence in the particular related
letter-value system I would like to mention that the value of the word
"Human being" (الإنسن) according to those same values is 46 which is equal to human chromosome number, discovered in the year 1955).
Here
is the table with all the words of the first chapter of the Holy Quran
that include at least one letter of the three letters that make the word
Allah ( الله
) - God. Next to each word you can see the number of those three
letters inside it. The three words in blue color are those found within
the opening verse. The three words are a. God ( الله ) b. The Gracious ( الرحمن ) c. The Merciful ( الرحيم ).


10th Fact
Let's
pay the table under fact 9 further consideration. The distribution of
those 49 letters (or the 41 without the opening verse) is not random at
all. It looks like this chapter has countless amount of mathematical
stuctural systems. A common method of representing words and letters
numerically is by expressing each word by the number of particular
letters inside it. For example, chapter 76
"Human being" and chapter 96 "The clot" (a name relating to human
creation) when represented by similar methods give huge numbers (278 and
76 digit numbers) that divide perfectly by human chromosome number (46). What we will do here is to express each word in this chapter by the number of Alef ( ا ), Lam ( ل ) and Haa ( ه ) letters (the letters making the word Allah) inside it. For example the first word Bism (بسم) gets the value 0 while the second word Allah (الله)
gets the value 4 (note: this word is written by 4 letters in Arabic
language). After that we put all the values side by side right-to-left
as Arabic language is. Here is a table with the individual word values:
The resulting number is a 31 digit number:
This
number divides perfectly by miracle number 7. It is equal to 7 ×
600314588603288574573175760320. Even the number representing this
chapter without the opening verse (a 27 digit number) divides perfectly
by 7. The number is equal to 7 × 60031458860328857457317576.

The
incredible thing about all what have been mentioned so far is that all
those mathematical phenomena are seen in the same 139 letters making the
opening chapter of the Holy Quran, a chapter that expresses all the
main themes in Muslim belief and which is written in flawless, top
quality & challenging Arabic language.
Let's see what God says in chapter 25 (The Criterion - الفرقان) of the Holy Quran:
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References:

- The Holy Quran - Revelation of Allah - Jehovah God
- www.qurancomplex.com King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Glorious Quran
- Factorization by Elliptic curve method
- Wikipedia - The free encyclopedia - Chromosomes