Nassir H. Sabah
(1) Say, “He is Allāh, The One and Only. قُلْ هُوَ ٱللَّهُ أَحَدٌ (2) Allāh, the Eternally Sufficient unto Himself. ٱللَّهُ ٱلصَّمَدُ (3) He begets not; nor was He begotten. لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ (4) And none is Comparable to Him. وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُۥ كُفُوًا أَحَدٌۢ”
When The Prophet Muhammad was asked by the people of Quraish about the lineage of Allāh, the answer came directly from Him in the form of Chapter 112 of the Quran, a short but highly important chapter that embodies the quintessence of a principal theme of the Quran: The Oneness of Allāh.
The first verse of Chapter 112 is a hallowed verse attesting that Allāh is The One and Only (aḥad أَحَد in Arabic). According to the eminent Islamic scholar, al-Rāzī, “The entire Quran is an oyster, and the pearl is His statement: “Say, ‘He is Allāh, The One and Only.’”
The second verse contains the last mention of the name Allāh in the Quran. The number of this verse is 6223 = 7×7×127, which is a double multiple of the mystical number 7(1). The digit sum of 127 is 10. Written as 010, the number 10 symbolizes that Allāh is One, nothing (0) is before Him and nothing is after Him.
The Chapter has 4 verses and 17 words, counting the conjunctive wāw as a separate word. The number 4 is of special significance in this Chapter and appears in many numerical relations that follow. In addition to being equal to the number of verses, 4 is also the number of words of the hallowed first verse. The digit sum of 17 is 8 = 2×4, where the 2 multiplier symbolizes this dual significance of 4.
17 is a special number that is equal to the number of mandated daily prayer cycles (ruka῾a رُكَع) and whose order as a prime number is 7. The first 4 primary numbers (2, 3, 5, 7) sum to 17.
The 17 words of Chapter 112 are divided among the verses as: (1)4, (2)2, (3)5, (4)6. If the numbers of words in the 4 verses are concatenated, with the number of words in the first verse on the right, the resulting number is 6524 = 4×7×233, where the digits of the prime factor 233 add to 8. If the concatenation is done in the reverse order, as is normally done in writing numbers in Arabic, the resulting number 4256 = 2×4×4×7×19 is a multiple of the mystical numbers 7 and 19(1), where 19 is the 8th prime number. The factors 2×4×4 also symbolizes the double significance of 4.
Each of the 4 verses of Chapter 112 ends with the Arabic letter dāl (د), whose order is 8 in the conventional Arabic alphabet and 4 in the original Abjadi alphabet, which makes its numerical value 4 in Arabic gematria.
The Chapter contains 47 letters, divided among the verses as (1)11, (2)9, (3)12, (4)15. If the numbers of letters in the 4 verses are concatenated, with the number of letters in the first verse on the right, the resulting number is 1512911 = 89×89×191, where the digit sum of the prime factor 89 is 17 and that of 191 is 11, the number of letters in the hallowed first verse. The number 11 is a double repetition of the number 1, which symbolizes the Oneness of Allāh. If the concatenation is done in the reverse order, with the number of letters in the first verse on the left, the resulting number is 1191215 = 5×37×47×137, where 47 is the number of letters in the Chapter, and the digits of 47, as well as those of the prime factor 137, sum to 11.
The first letter of Chapter 112, qāf (ق) occurs only once in the Chapter, and the second word lām (ل) occurs 12 times. If these two numbers are concatenated, with the number for the first letter on the left, the resulting number 112 is the chapter number.
The name Allāh (ٱللَّهِ) consists of 4 Arabic letters hā’ (ه) – lām (ل) – lām (ل) – ‘alif (ا) in the order from right to left. If the numbers of occurrences of these letters in the first verse of the Chapter are concatenated in the same order as these four letters, the resulting number 2332 = 4×11×53, where 11 and 4 are encountered again, and 53 is the 16th (4×4) prime number whose digits add to 8. The numbers of occurrences of the 4 letters of the name Allāh in the 4 verses of the Chapter are: (ا, 6), (ل, 12), (ه, 4). If these numbers are concatenated in the same order as before, the resulting number is 412126 = 2×11×11×13×131, where the number 11 is a double factor, (2×11×11), and the sum of the digits of the other prime factors, 2, 13, and 131, also sum to 11. If the number is reversed, the resulting number 621214 = 2×11×11×17×151 again has the double 11, (2×11×11), 17 is a factor, and the digit sum of the prime factor 151 is 7.
The dominance in the preceding numerical relations of the numbers 4 and 11 (emphasizing His Oneness), should be carefully noted.
The order numbers in the conventional Arabic alphabet of the three letters that form the Arabic word أَحَد (aḥad) are ʼalif (1), ḥāʼ (6), and dāl (8), which sum to 15, the same as the number of letters in the last verse, which also ends with the word أَحَد (aḥad). 15 is the total number of verses in the last three chapters of the Quran (112, 113, and 114). 47, the number of letters in Chapter 1 is the 15th prime number and 15 is also the number of Arabic letters not used in the Chapter
ت، ث، ج، خ، ذ، ر، ز، س، ش، ض، ط، ظ، ع، غ) ).
The middle word in the Arabic verse is the three-letter word يَلِدْ (begets), and the middle letter in this word, and the 23rd in the chapter, is lām (ل), whose order is also 23 in the conventional Arabic alphabet. 23 is the number of years over which the Quran was revealed, and in the context of: “begets”, that is, “giving birth” is also the number of chromosome pairs in humans.
Can all this be coincidental?
References
ISLAM & MATHEMATICS, https://tinyurl.com/53udwuzm
https://almerja.com/reading.php?idm=9774
(1) See the article: “Mystical and perfect numbers in the Quran” on the website https://nassirsabah.com under Insights/Supplements/Numerical Miraculousness.
