[2:163] Your god is one god; there is no god but He, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
The Quran is characterized by a unique phenomenon never found in any human authored book. Every element of the Quran is mathematically composed¾the suras, the verses, the words, the number of certain letters, the number of words from the same root, the number and variety of divine names, the unique spelling of certain words, and many other elements of the Quran besides its content. There are two major facets of the Quran’s mathematical system: (1) The mathematical literary composition, and (2) The mathematical structure involving the numbers of suras and verses.
The number nineteen is the common denominator throughout the Quran’s mathematical system. For example, the first verse (1:1), known as Bas-malah, consists of 19 Arabic letters. The Quran consists of 114 (19x6) su-ras. The total number of verses in the Quran (including the 112 un-numbered Basmalahs) is 6346 or 19x334. Also 6+3+4+6 = 19. The to-tal occurrence of the word Allah (God) is 2698, or 19x142. The total sum of the verse numbers for all verses containing the word Allah is 118123, or 19x6217. These are just a few examples and should alone suffice as incontrovertible proof that the Quran is God’s message to the world. However, the Quran’s mathematical system is not limited to the word Al-lah (God), it is extremely vast, ex-tremely intricate, and totally compre-hensive. For more information, please refer to Appendix 1 of the "Quran: The Final Testament, Authorized English Translation by Rashad Khalifa, Ph.D."
The "abjad" numerical system, as-signing a numerical value to each letter, has been widely practiced be-fore the establishment of the Roman or Arabic numerals as we know today. For example, in Arabic, the letter Alif (A) has a numerical value of 1, and Bah (B) has a numerical value of 2, and so on. If the people’s language were Hebrew, or Aramaic, they used the letters of that language for numer-als. We now understand that the mathematical coding of the Quran with the number 19 is based on the fact that 19 is the numerical value of the word "wahid" (ONE). The fol-lowing is a study done by Dr. Cesar Majul in 1984. It is reported again here as an answer to some people’s question on 19.
The Word "One" Referring to God
In the text of the Quran, there are 19 and only 19 verses where the word wahid ( ) is used to refer to or characterize Allah (God) as ONE.
It is to be recalled that the most im-portant or basic doctrine¾the central theme¾of the Quran is that God is ONE. The Quran teaches that God will forgive any sin of a repentant transgressor; but one offense He will not forgive is that of ascribing part-ners to Him (39:53; 4:48; 4:116 ...).
Applying the abjad numerical system (or gematrical values of the letters) to the word wahid gives it the numerical value of 19:
|Arabic Letters||Numerical Value|
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 bal-ance of 19 verses refer to God’s qual-ity (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 consid-erations, 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 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.
[74:21-30] He looked. He frowned and whined. Then he turned away ar-rogantly. He said, "This is but clever magic! This is human made." I will commit him to retri-bution. What retribution! Thor-ough and comprehensive. Obvious to all people.
[74:30] Over it is nine-teen.
[74:35] This is one of the great miracles.*
Dr. Cesar Majul
- Concordance of the Quran by Mu-hammad Fuad Abdul-Baqi
Concordance of the Quran by Hanna Kassis.
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 the word wahid refers to Verses where wahid refers to God 1 2:61 one kind of food 2 2:63 God as ONE 1 3 4:11 Inheritance/one person 4 4:12 Inheritance/each of two 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