What About Numerical Miracles In Quran? K.H.Y.' A.S.
It is no longer a question of chance. We are before precise laws and carefully calculated placing of letters.
I said to my atheist interlocutor: You must have been startled the first time you read those separate letters at the opening of some Quranic suras. I mean such clusters as: H.M., T.S.M., K.H.Y.' A.S., K., S., and so on. I wonder what did you say to yourself then.
He just pouted his lips indifferently, muttering indistinctly: Well!
- Well. what?
- Well, I thought that your Prophet was merely impressing you with such trick.
- Very well, let us examine that 'nonsensical talk' with which you think our Prophet tricked us.
Take, for example, a relatively short sura like 'Qaf.' If we count the occurrences of the letter K (Qaf) in it, we will find that they are fifty-seven. Consider the sura which follows it, Counsel, twice its length and opens with the letter K. You will find that this letter occurs fifty-seven times also. Is this a mere coincidence?
If we add up those occurrences of the letter K, we will have a hundred and fourteen: the number of the suras which the Quran contains. Do you remember how the sura of Qaf opens and how it ends? It begins: 'K. By the glorious Quran' and ends with the verse:
These are more like hints indicating that K (Qaf) symbolizes the Quran. Remember that the letter K occurs a hundred and fourteen times in both suras, which, as I said, is the number of the Quran's suras:
- My friend said nonchalantly:
These are just coincidences.
- I continued calmly:
Let us continue our probing. Feed all the Quran's suras into a computer and instruct it to give us some statistics on the average occurrence of the K letter in them.
He became totally alert and tensely attentive, saying:
Has this been already done?
- I replied quietly: Yes, it has.
What was the result?
The computer informed us that the highest averages and rates occur in the Qaf sura. This sura is mathematically "superior" to all others in the Quran concerning this particular letter. Is this another coincidence?
- How strange!
The 'Thunder' sura opens with the letters A.L.M.R.; we fed this into the computer, and it gave us an account of the occurrence frequency of these letters in the sura:
A. occurs 625 times.
L. occurs 479 times.
M. occurs 260 times.
R. occurs 127 times.
Thus the letters' frequency of occurrence is in the same descending order in which they are ranged at the sura's beginning: A.L.M.R.
The computer then worked on the averages of these letters' occurrences in the Quran as a whole. It fed back to us the following bombshell: the highest rates or standards for these letters are in the Thunder sura, which, concerning them, is mathematically superior or dominant to any other sura of the Quran.
The same thing happened in the statistics concerning the opening A.L.M. of the Cow sura:
A. occurs 4592 times.
L. occurs 3204 times.
M. occurs 2195 times.
The frequency of occurrence is in the same descending order found at the opening of the sura: A.L.M. The computer revealed that these letters have mathematical preponderance over others within the Cow sura. A similar ratio is found in 'The Imran's,' which also opens with A.L.M.:
A. occurs 2578 times.
L. occurs 1885 times.
M. occurs 1251 times.
The same correspondence is observed between the descending order of frequency and that of occurrence at the opening of the sura. Likewise, these letters are found in this sura at a higher rate than the other letters of the alphabet.
The Spider sura opens with A.L.M. These letters are distributed in it in the following manner:
A. occurs 784 times.
L. occurs 554 times.
M. occurs 344 times.
This is the same descending order of their occurrence at the opening of the sura. They are also found in a higher ratio than the other letters of the alphabet. The 'Romans' also begins with A.L.M., and these occur in the following frequency ratios:
A. is found 547 times.
L. is found 396 times.
M. is found 318 times.
Again, this is the same descending order of their occurrence at the start. As in the previous cases, these letters have a higher ratio of events than any others of the alphabet in the same sura.
Among all the suras opening with A.L.M., we find that those revealed in Mecca are mathematically preponderant, concerning these letters' average frequency of occurrence over the other Meccan suras. We also find that those suras revealed in Medina and beginning with the letters A.L.M. are similarly mathematically preponderant, concerning the average frequency of these letters, over the other Medina suras.
The same phenomenon is observed in connection with the cluster A.L.M.S. which opens the 'Heights.' The computer informs us that the average occurrence frequency of these letters is highest in that sura which is mathematically preponderant in this regard over other Meccan suras.
In 'Ta Ha,' it is found that 't' and 'h' occur in frequencies higher than in all Meccan suras. The same happens with the opening K.H.Y.’A.S. of 'Mary,' whose average occurrence frequency is higher than in all Meccan suras.
The same results hold in the case of all the suras opening with the letters H.M. If these suras are put together, the occurrence frequency of the H.M. letters is found to be higher in them than in all Meccan suras. This fact also applies to the two suras beginning with S: Sad and The Heights (the last opens with A.L.M.S.). These two suras were revealed successively in this order. If they are taken together, they will be found to preponderate mathematically over all other suras of the Quran concerning the average occurrence frequency of these letters they open.
A similar phenomenon is noted in all suras starting with A.L.R., namely, Abraham, Jonah, Houd, Joseph, and Al-Hijr. Four of these were revealed in succession, and if taken as a unit, computer read-outs on them will show the highest average occurrence frequency for the letters A.L.R. among all Meccan suras. In 'Ya Sin,' the same thing obtains but in reverse, as it were, concerning the letter sequence Y. S. because the Y., the last letter in the Arabic alphabet or 'ya,' comes before the S. That is why we note that the frequency of occurrence for these two letters in this sura is, in fact, lower than in all other suras of the Quran, whether revealed in Mecca or Medina.
My well-educated friend fell silent, and I reassured him by saying that I was not making up all these figures. I was quoting from a study by an Egyptian scientist, Dr. Rashad Khalifa, who lives in the U.S.A. His book, Miracle of the Quran (published in English by Islamic Productions International, St. Louis, Missouri), contains the details of his research. I presented that book to my friend. He leafed through it in silence, and I continued my talk to him:
You see, it is no longer a question of chance. We are before precise laws and carefully calculated placing of letters, each of which is weighed as if with an exacting scale. I read to you the appropriate verse from the Quran.
“It is God who has revealed the Book with truth and justice.” Counsel, 17
And what a sort of justice have we here! We are before such a finely just scale that can weigh a hair or a letter. With findings like these, the idea that the Prophet was the author of the Quran is no longer tenable. It is inconceivable to imagine him saying to himself in advance of composing the Quran, "I will fashion the Thunder sura on the letters A.L.M.R. and put in it the highest average of occurrence frequency for these letters in the entire book."
It is to be asked where could he have found anyone to undertake to provide him with these statistical averages. An electronic computer can only accomplish such a task. If the Prophet had attempted it himself, he would have undoubtedly spent several years just calculating the letter dispositions for only one sura — adding and subtracting at the level of Knowledge available in his age. He was not even acquainted with the Knowledge of his age. It is to be further enquired whether he occupied himself with composing or calculating the letter placements. We confront here an impossibility.
Moreover, let's consider that the Quran was revealed in small, separate parts along a time of twenty-three years. We will undoubtedly conclude that formulating advanced statistical averages for its letters is another impossibility.
It is a task of which the All-Knowing alone is capable. It is He who knows everything before it occurs and calculates swifter and more accurately than all imaginable computers combined. God alone, whose Knowledge has comprehended everything, can do this. The individual letters with which the suras open are only symbols of His Knowledge imparted by Him in His Book and left for us to discover as time goes by:
“We will show them Our signs in all the regions of the earth and in themselves until they clearly see that it is the truth.” Fussilat, 53
I am not saying that what has been uncovered contains these letters' secrets. It is just a beginning that has been made; no one yet knows to what horizon will it lead us.
With the new significance of such letters, the idea that the Quran had been composed can be entirely and finally refuted. This significance puts us before accurate calculations and profound meanings for every letter so that no one dare allege that this is just mere scribbling. Can't you see, my friend, that you face here a species of language that cannot be described as just a string of letters?
My friend did not answer but kept browsing through that book I gave him without uttering a sound.
I’m inviting you to listen to the below part of the Holy Quran, and then you judge by yourself: