Nassir H. Sabah
Chapter 36 holds a special place in traditional Islamic piety. It was designated by the Prophet Muhammad as the “heart of the Quran” because of the significance of its subject-matter. It is not surprising, therefore, that the chapter abounds with miraculous numerical relations.
Chapter 36 consists of 83 verses and 2988 words. These numbers are related, as 36×83 = 2988. The sum of 36 and 83 is 119 = 7×17, where 7 is a number of mystical significance(1) and 17 is the 7th prime number. The two least significant digits of 119 are 19, which is a number of mystical significance(1), and Chapter 36 is the 19th chapter in the order of the 29 chapters of the Quran that begin with disjointed letters. The two most significant digits of 119 are the number 11, which is a special number in its own right(2).
The two disjointed letters at the beginning of Chapter 36 are yā sīn.
(i) The letter yā (equivalent to English “i” or “y”) is repeated 237 times in Chapter 36 and the letter sīn (equivalent to English “s”) is repeated 48 times, including the occurrences in the special letters and in the unnumbered basmalah at the beginning of the chapter and which is sometimes added to the first numbered verse, yā sīn. The two letters are repeated a total of 285 = 15×19, a multiple of 19.
(ii) The two factors of 285 concatenated in the order of the larger on the right give: 1519 = 7×7×31. If concatenated in the opposite order, the result is: 1915 = 5×383, where 383 is a prime number whose digits add to 14 = 2×7, whose two least significant digits are 83, the number of verses in Chapter 36, and whose two most significant digits are 38 = 2×19.
(iii) yā’ occurs twice in the disjointed letters of the Quran, at the beginning of Chapter 19 and Chapter 36; sīn occurs five times, at the beginning of each of Chapters 26, 27, 28, 36, and 42. The total number of occurrences of the two letters is 7.
The first two numbered verses of Chapter 36 are: “yā sīn * By the Wise Quran” . يسٓ * وَالْقُرْءَانِ الْحَكِيمِ. These two verses have 4 words, counting the conjunctive wāw as a separate letter. If the number of Arabic letters in each of these 4 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 114 is the number of chapters of the Quran, and 58 is the number of times the word “Quran” is repeated in the Quran (قُرْءَانِ (Quran)(6), بِقُرْءَان (a Quran)(1), لَقُرْءَانٌ (a Quran)(1), الْقُرْءَانِ (the Quran)(48), and بِٱلْقُرْءَان )with the Quran)(2)). If the number 6612 is reversed, the resulting number is 2166 = 114×19.
Verse 3, Chapter 36 states, referring to Prophet Muhammad: “Truly thou art among the message bearers” إِنَّكَ لَمِنَ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ. The Arabic verse consists of 2×7 = 14 letters. If the number of occurrences of each of these letters in the chapter, including the basmalah as part of the first verse, yā sīn, are added, the sum is: 482 + 302 + 77 + 330 + 312 + 302 + 482 + 330 + 312 + 123 + 48 + 330 + 237 + 302 = 3969 = 63×63, where 63 is not only a multiple of 7 but is also the age of the Prophet Muhammad when he died. Bearing in mind that prophet Muhammad was the last of the “message bearers, the last occurrence of the Arabic word “message bearers” ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ in the Quran is, amazingly, in verse number 3969.
The Arabic word mubīn مُبِين, meaning that which makes something clear, is used in many verses of the Quran to attest that the Quran makes absolutely clear the truth and everything else it portrays. This word occurs in Chapter 36 in 7 verses numbered: 12, 17, 24, 47, 60, 69, 77. The sum of the individual digits of these numbers is: 1 + 2 + 1 +7 +2 +4 +4 +7 +6 +6 +9 +7 +7 = 63. If the verse numbers are concatenated, with the smallest verse number on the left, the resulting 14-digit number is 12172447606977 = 3×63×1,151×4,787×11,689, where 63 is also a factor.
Some amazing numerical relations occur using Arabic gematria:
(i) The letter yā’ has a value of 10 and the letter sīn has a value of 60, the total being 70 = 7×10.
(ii) The values in Arabic gematria of the different phrases of disjointed letters that occur before Chapter 36 are, in the order of their occurrence: 71 (for الم in Chapters 2, 3, 29, 30, 31, and 32), 161 (for المص in Chapter 7), 231 (for الر in Chapters 10, 11, 12, 14, and 15), 271 (for المر in Chapter 13), 195 (for كهيعص in Chapter 19), 14 (for طه in chapter 20), 109 (for طسم in Chapter 26), and 69 (for طس in Chapter 27). The sum of these 8 numbers is 71 + 161 +231 + 271 + 195 + 14 +109 +69 = 1121 = 19×59.
(iii) The values in Arabic gematria of the different phrases of disjointed letters that occur after Chapter 36 are, in the order of their occurrence: 90 (for ص in Chapter 38), 48 (for حم in Chapters 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, and 46), 278 (for حم عسق in Chapter 42), 100 (for ق in Chapter 50), and 50 (for ن in Chapter 68). The sum of these 5 numbers is 90 + 48 +278 + 100 + 50 = 566 = 2×283, where the two rightmost digits of 283 are 83, the same as the number of verses in Chapter 36, and 283 is the 61th prime number; the digits 6 and 1 sum to 7. The sum of the two numbers 1121 and 566 is 1687 = 7×241, where 241 is a prime number whose digits also add to 7.
Can all this be coincidental?
References
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1632099384858289
https://www.alhabbal.info/dr.mjamil/ejaz/ej12.htm
(1) See the article Mystical and perfect numbers in the Quran on this website under “Insights/Supplements/Numerical Miraculousness”.
(2) See the article Authenticity of the Quran: The Basmalah on this website under “Insights/Supplements/Numerical Miraculousness”.
