6+1+8+4=19=One Continued from page 1 Applying the abjad numerical system (or gematrical values of the letters) to the word wahid gives it the numerical value of 19: Arabic Letters of Wahid | Numerical Value | و | 6 | ا | 1 | ح | 8 | د | 4 | Total | 19 | The word wahid occurs 25 times in the total number of Quranic verses. Of these, one verse refers to one kind of food. Two verses use the word to refer to persons involved in inheritance shares. One verse refers to a gate. One refers to watering, and another one refers to each of a pair of adulterers. These account for six verses. The balance of 19 verses refer to God’s quality (sifat) as being ONE. Table 1 lists all the verses in which the word wahid (ONE) is mentioned. Thus there are 19 and only 19 Quranic verses which use the word wahid as exclusively referring to God’s Oneness. That this word also has the numerical value of 19 is significant. This fact in the light of other considerations, like the researches of Dr. Rashad Khalifa, cannot be another accident or coincidence. Indeed, it is another instance of general pattern in the Quran. Note: Incidentally, the word wahidan is also found in the Quran to refer to “one.” It as such occurs five times. In 25:14 it refers to one’s destruction. In 38:5 it refers to some persons trying to make many gods into one. In 54:24 it refers to one alone among men. In 2:133 and 9:31, it refers to worship of
| Table 1. The 25 verses in which the word wahid (one) is mentioned in the Quran, and the 19 cases where it refers to the oneness of God Number | Sura and Verse | Nature of verse (the word wahid refers to) | Verses where wahid refers to God | 1 | 2:61 | one kind of food | | 2 | 2:163 | God as ONE | 1 | 3 | 4:11 | one person in inheritence | | 4 | 4:12 | each of two in inheritence | | 5 | 4:171 | God as ONE | 2 | 6 | 5:73 | God as ONE | 3 | 7 | 6:19 | God as ONE | 4 | 8 | 12:39 | God as ONE | 5 | | 9 | 12:67 | one gate | | | 10 | 13:4 | watering | | | 11 | 13:16 | God as ONE | 6 | | 12 | 14:48 | God as ONE | 7 | | 13 | 14:52 | God as ONE | 8 | | 14 | 16:22 | God as ONE | 9 | | 15 | 16:51 | God as ONE | 10 | | 16 | 18:110 | God as ONE | 11 | | 17 | 21:108 | God as ONE | 12 | | 18 | 22:34 | God as ONE | 13 | | 19 | 24:2 | each adulterer | | | 20 | 29:46 | God as ONE | 14 | | 21 | 37:4 | God as ONE | 15 | | 22 | 38:65 | God as ONE | 16 | | 23 | 39:4 | God as ONE | 17 | | 24 | 40:16 | God as ONE | 18 | | 25 | 41:6 | God as ONE | 19 | One God. But the numerical value of wahidan is twenty and not nineteen. This comes about from the extra alif used for the tanwin at the end of the word. Thus this word was not included in the list of 25 entries in Table 1. He looked. He frowned and whined. Then he turned away arrogantly. He said, “This is but clever magic! This is human made.” I will commit him to retribution. What retribution! Thorough and comprehensive. | Obvious to all people. Over it is nineteen.... This is one of the great miracles (74:21-30, 35) Dr. Cesar Majul References: 1. Concordance of the Quran by Muhammad Fuad Abdul-Baqi 2. Concordance of the Quran by Hanna Kassis. |
|