Nassir H. Sabah
The Arabic Quran, as originally revealed, has some amazing numerical relations and patterns that attest to its authenticity and divine origin, purely objectively and irrefutably.
Since about 2015, the digitized Quranic text was subjected to intensive computerized search, which revealed some truly amazing numerical relations and patterns of varied nature that cannot possibly all be coincidental or of human origin, thereby affirming the authenticity of the Quran and its divine origin. Hundreds of these numerical relations and patterns have been discovered so far and continue to be discovered – a recurring miracle that keeps on giving.
Such numerical relations and patterns have the following distinguishing features: (i) they are completely objective, as they do not depend on any philosophical or linguistic interpretations of verses or words, just counting and simple arithmetic, and (ii) they prove beyond any doubt that the Arabic Quran that is officially adopted today by at least 98% of Muslims is the original, authentic Quran that has been preserved in accordance with God’s promise: “Truly it is We Who have sent down the Reminder (the Quran), and surely We are its Preserver.” (Q15:9) إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا ٱلذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُۥ لَحَـٰفِظُونَ. Alterations to the Quran and translations would largely destroy these numerical relations and patterns.
Many of these numerical relations and patterns involve the mystical numbers 7 and 19, which are specifically mentioned in the Quran in a manner suggestive of their special significance, as in Verse 30, Chapter 74: “Over it are nineteen” عَلَيْهَا تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ, and in Verse 87, Chapter 15: “And We have indeed given thee the seven oft-repeated, and the great Quran” وَلَقَدْ ءَاتَيْنَـٰكَ سَبْعًا مِّنَ ٱلْمَثَانِى وَٱلْقُرْءَانَ ٱلْعَظِيمَ. It is interesting to note that the ratio 19/7 = 2.71429… is equal to Euler’s number, or “e”, the base of the natural logarithm, to within approximately 0.15%. “e” is a universal constant that is important in mathematics, probability theory, physics, and in processes of continuous growth and decay in which the rate of increase or decrease of a quantity with respect to time is proportional to the quantity itself.
The following presents examples of some numerical relations and patterns discovered so far that involve just the number of chapters of the Quran and its numbered verses.
Number of chapters
The Quran has 114 chapters. This is not a random number; it is the mystical 19 multiplied by 6, which is mathematically the first perfect number, that is, a number that equals the sum of its proper divisors (1, 2, and 3). The digit sum of 114 is also 6. If 19 and 6 are concatenated, with 6 on the right, the resulting number 196 is the mystical 7 multiplied by 28, which is a multiple of 7 and is the second perfect number, as it is the sum of its proper divisors (1, 2, 4, 7, and 14). It is also the number of letters in the Arabic alphabet. If 19 and 6 are concatenated, with 6 on the left, the resulting number 619 is the 114th prime number!
If the number 1 of the first chapter is concatenated with the number of the last chapter, 114, with the number of the first chapter on the right, the resulting number 1141 is a multiple of 7. The 4 numerals of 1141 also add to 7!
The number 114 is embedded in several places in the Quran. The first verse of the Quran, Verse 1, Chapter 1, has 4 words. If these numbers are concatenated, with the number of the smallest unit, the word, on the right, the result is 114!
Only Verse 9, Chapter 17, and Verse 76, Chapter 27, begin with “Truly, this Quran…”إنَّ هَذَا الْقُرْءَانَ… . There are 69 Arabic letters in the first verse and 45 in the second, which sum to 114!
The word Quran begins with the Arabic letter qaf (ق), whose only occurrence in the disjointed letters is in chapters 42 and 50. The total number of qafs in the two chapters is 57 + 57 = 114!
Verse 17, Chapter 75, affirms about the Quran: “Surely on us rests the collection of it and the recitation of it” إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا جَمْعَهُۥ وَقُرْءَانَهُ. The Arabic verse consists of 5 words, counting the conjunctive letter waw as a separate letter , and 17 letters. The sum of the numbers of chapter, verse, words, and letters is: 75+17+5+17 = 114! If the numbers of letters in each word of the verse are concatenated, starting with the first word on the right, the result 51,452 = 2,708×19 is a multiple of the mystical 19, which is a factor of 114! Note that 17 is a special number. It is the 7th in the order of prime numbers, is the sum of the first 4 prime numbers ending with 7 (2, 3, 5, 7), and is the number of mandated daily prayer cycles (ruka῾a رُكَع).
Verse 88, Chapter 17, poses a challenge to produce the like of the Quran: “Say: ‘Surely if mankind and jinn banded together to bring the like of this Quran, they would not bring the like thereof, even if they supported one another.’” قُل لَّئِنِ ٱجْتَمَعَتِ ٱلْإِنسُ وَٱلْجِنُّ عَلَىٰٓ أَن يَأْتُوا۟ بِمِثْلِ هَـٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانِ لَا يَأْتُونَ بِمِثْلِهِۦ وَلَوْ كَانَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ ظَهِيرًا. If conjunctive wāw is not counted as a separate word, the verse consists of 19 words. Irrespective of how conjunctive wāw is counted, the verse has 76 letters, a multiple of 19, and uses 19 letters of the Arabic alphabet. The total 19 + 76 + 19 is 114!
A verse referring to the complete Quran is: “…Be not in haste with the Quran before its revelation is completed for thee…”…وَلَا تَعْجَلْ بِٱلْقُرْءَانِ مِن قَبْلِ أَن يُقْضَىٰٓ إِلَيْكَ وَحْيُهُ… This verse is in Chapter 20, Verse number 114! In the Quran, the number of the word بالقرآن (with the Quran) in this verse is 41,154 = 114x19x19!
Two verses associate the Quran with the word mathanī, meaning oft-repeated. The first is in Verse 87, Chapter 15, having 99 verses, where 15 + 99 = 114. The second is in Verse 23, Chapter 39, having 75 verses, where 39 + 75 = 114!
The first two numbered verses of Chapter 36: “yā sīn * By the Wise Quran” وَٱلْقُرْءَانِ ٱلْحَكِيمِ * يسٓ have 5 words, counting the conjunctive wāw as a separate letter. If the number of Arabic letters in each of these 5 words are ordered from right to left, as they occur in Arabic, and not counting the hamzah ء as a letter, because it is a diacritical mark and not part of the Arabic alphabet, the resulting number is 6612 = 114×58, where 58 is the number of times the word “Quran” is repeated as قُرْءَانِ (Quran)(6), بِقُرْءَان (a Quran)(1), لَقُرْءَانٌ (a Quran)(1), الْقُرْءَانِ (the Quran)(48), and بِٱلْقُرْءَان )with the Quran)(2). If the number is 6612 is reversed, the resulting number is 2166 = 114×19!
In Chapter 30, Al-Rūm, the total number of occurrences of the four letters of Allāh (الله) 1444 =19×19×4, and the total number of occurrences of the four letters of Muhammad (محمد) is 722 = 19×19×2. The sum of these two numbers is 1444 + 722 = 2166 = 114×19!
An amazing result of a 114 sequence of 19s is presented in the article “Patterns of 1s and 19s in the Quran” on this website under “Insights/Supplements/Numerical Miraculousness”.
Number of verses
The Quran has 6236 numbered verses. This is also not a random number. It starts and ends with 6, the first perfect number, as mentioned previously. The 2 and 3 in the middle are the prime divisors of 6, so that the product of the individual numerals of the number 6236 is 6x6x6. Moreover, 23 is the number of years over which the Quran was revealed!
113 chapters of the Quran begin with the Basmalah verse. The Basmalah verse of the first chapter is numbered and is counted as part of the 6236 numbered verses. Conventionally, the remaining 112 Basmalah verses are not counted. If these are included in the verse count, the total number of verses becomes 6236 + 112 = 6348 = 23x23x12, where the number 23 occurs twice as a factor, and the numerals are 1, 2,and 3, that is, all the proper divisor of 6! If the number 6348 is reversed, 8436 = 19×12×37, is a multiple of 19!
In 32 chapters of the Quran the count of the numbered verses is a prime number. A table can be constructed in which the numbers of these chapters are listed in the first column and the corresponding prime number of verses in each of these chapters is listed in the second column. Referring to a list of prime numbers, such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_numbers, the prime number whose index is the number in the second column is entered in the third column. For example, Chapter 1 has 7 numbered verses, which is a prime number, so that the first row of the table has 1 in the first column and 7 in the second column. The 7th prime number is 17, so this number is entered in the third column of the first row, and so on. When the numbers in each column are added, it is found that: (i) the sum of the chapter numbers having prime-numbered verses is 2239, which is itself a prime number, and (ii) adding the sums of the numbers in the second and third columns gives 6236, which is the count of the numbered verses in the Quran! The table is shown in full in: Pattern of Prime Numbers in the Quran – Spirituality Rekindled (nassirsabah.com).
Combinations of the numbers of chapters and verses
If the numbers 114 and 6236 are concatenated, with the smaller unit (verse) on the right and the larger unit (chapter) on the left, bearing in mind that Arabic is written and read from right to left, the resulting number 1146236 is a multiple of the mystical 7. If the order of the numerals is reversed, the number 6326411 is also a multiple of 7!
If the individual numerals in the numbers 114 and 6236 are added, the sum is 23, the number of years over which the Quran was revealed. If this number is concatenated with the number of verses, the result 236236 is a multiple of 7. If the order of the numerals is reversed, the number 632632 is also a multiple of 7!
If the number 23 is concatenated with the number of chapters replacing the number of verses, the resulting number 23114 is a multiple of 7. If the order of the numerals is reversed, the number 41132 is also a multiple of 7!
The number of digits of the first number formed (1146236) is 7, the number of digits of the second number formed (236236) is 6, and the number of digits of the third number formed (23114) is 5. If these numbers of digits are concatenated, with the number of digits of the first number on the right, the resulting number 567 is a multiple of 7!
A table can be constructed in which the numbers of chapters from 1 to 114 are entered in the first column. The sum of these column entries is 6555, which is a multiple of 19, just like 114, the number of chapters. The corresponding count of the numbered verses in each chapter is entered in the second column. The sum of the entries in the second column is of course 6236, the total of the numbered verses in the Quran. Next, the chapter number is added to the count of the numbered verses in each chapter. If this sum is even, it is entered in the corresponding row in the third column and, if odd, it is entered in the corresponding row in the fourth column. Interestingly, there are 57 entries in each of these two columns, the total being of course 114, the number of chapters in the Quran. But what is truly amazing is that the sum of all entries in the third column is again 6236, and the sum of all the entries in the fourth column is again 6555, as in the second and first columns, respectively! The table is shown in full in: Pattern of Even and Odd Numbers in the Quran – Spirituality Rekindled (nassirsabah.com).
Chapter 1 of the Quran has 7 verses, 39 words, and 139 letters, whereas the last, Chapter 114 has 6 verses, 21 words, and 80 letters, counting the conjunctive wāw as a separate word. Concatenation, from right to left, of the chapter number and the number of verses of the first chapter, followed by the corresponding numbers for the last chapter, gives the number 611471 = 7×7×12,479, which is a double multiple of seven, and the digit sum of the prime factor 12,479 is 23, the number of years over which the Quran was revealed. If the number of words and the number of letters in each chapter are included in the concatenation, the resulting number 802161141393171 = 7×114,594,448,770,453 is a multiple of 7!
Can all this be coincidental, and hundreds of other examples? Evidently not. Moreover, such numerical relations and patterns cannot possibly be of human origin. So how can the Quran be of other than divine origin?
