IN
THE NAME OF GOD THE ALL GRACIOUS
THE
ALL MERCIFUL
JOURNAL
OF SUBMISSION
Volume 5 No. 5, November-December 1997
Editor: All R. Fazely
Associate Editors: Saied Andalib
and
e-mail: 764 51.271@CompuServe. Corn
Awesome Mathematical Sign
Awesomeness of GOD's
Mathematical Signs
GOD Insists About 9:127'
Letter from the editor:
About 1400 years ago, GOD
revealed His final scripture, the Quran, during the month of Ramadan, to Prophet
Muhammad. Sura 47 of the Quran is called Mohammad. The names of chapters of the
Quran are divinely chosen to convey mathematical structures with which GOD
tests or disturbs the disbelievers [1]. We know that this sura has 38 verses.
This is a design by GOD that every sura has to have a specific number of verses
to tell us that this is a divine book. Let us examine the number 4738. This
number is a composite. A composite number is a number that can be divided into
factors. For example, 6 is a composite since it is equal to 2 × 3. Therefore,
4738 = 23 ×2× 103
Numbers 23, 2 and 103 can not
be divided into any other numbers (except 1 and themselves) and therefore, they
are prime numbers. Every composite number can be factored into its prime numbers.
Now, let us examine these prime factors and their indices.
232103
9127
This takes us back to chapter 9 having 127 verses. In sura 74 verse 30, GOD tells us that "Over it is 19". Accordingly, the order of writing the digits 9, 1, 2 and 7 happens to be the 19th permutation of these four digits in ascending order. All praises are due to GOD, Creator of all things.
GOD's
Signs in the Horizons and Within Ourselves
Do
People Like GOD's Signs?
GOD created in His Infinite
Wisdom the heavens and the earth according to a perfect design. The Creator of
all things created the sky we see during the night containing hundreds of
billions of galaxies with trillions of stars like our sun, a small star. There are stars 100 times larger than
our sun. Our galaxy, the Milky Way has a diameter of 100,000 light years. It
means, traveling at the speed of light takes 100,000 years from one end of the milky way to the other end. Our galaxy is not a large
galaxy, when compared to one whose diameter is 6,000,000 light years. Our
universe called by GOD The Lowest Universe, is the
smallest and the innermost of the Seven universes (heavens). GOD placed in the
skies the moon as a light and the sun as a lamp [2]. GOD also tells us that He
adorned the lowest universe with stars, like or much larger than our own sun.
These are GOD's Signs and there are many other Signs that He describes for us
in the Quran. As a matter of fact every verse in the Quran is called an "aaya" or sign from I'Iim.
Many folks ask about people's reaction to the mathematical Signs of the Quran. This question can be answered by asking "are people happy with GOD's Signs"? I quote a few verses from sura 30 in the Quran and let you conclude that people generally object to GOD's Signs and would like to have a world according to their own desires. GOD tells us:
30:20 - Among His Signs is that He created you from dust, then you became reproducing humans.
30:21 - Among His signs is that He created for you spouses from
among yourselves, in order to have tranquility and contentment with each other.
He places in your hearts love and care towards your spouses. In this, there are
signs for people who think.
30:22 - Among His signs are the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the variations in
your languages and your colors. In these, there are signs for the knowledgeable.
30:23 - Among His signs is your sleeping during the night or the
day, and your working in pursuit of His bounties. In this, there are signs for
people who hear.
30:24 - Among His signs is that He shows you the lightning as a source of fear as well as hope. And He sends
down from the sky water to revive a land that has died. In these, there are
signs for people who understand.
30:25 - Among His signs is that the heaven and the earth are
standing at His disposal. Finally, He calls you out of the earth, one call,
whereupon you immediately rise.
How many people do you know who
are sincerely happy with the aforementioned Signs of GOD? Groups of people
always have problems with others due to differences that GOD has bestowed upon them.
Billions of human beings have been and are being killed by others, because one
group of people had the notion that they are better than the others. How many
people do you know who put in an honest work day without cheating or sliding
by? Many people in the name of religion ask for a wage and become professional
religionists. These groups of people are in direct contradiction with the
assertion of GOD's Signs that His messengers do not ask for money. As a matter
of fact they have regular jobs just like other people. People who appose GOD's
Signs are in the majority in this world. This should not be a source of
disappointment to the believers, for GOD tells us so many times in the Quran
that the majority will not believe and we have to trust GOD.
Awesome
Mathematical Sign in Sura 9
Saied
Andalib, by GOD's Grace noted the following awesome
signs in chapter 9 of the Quran. Note that an ordered verse refers to a verse
where the word “ALLAH" has been mentioned at least once.
Verse 9:74 is a cutoff in an
interesting way. Note that 74 is the chapter where the number 19 has been
mentioned.
The sum of the ordered verses
from 9:1 to 9:74 is 2147. Note that 2147 is the total sum of the frequency of
the initials H.M. in chapters 40 through 46. Verse 9:74 is the 58th ordered
verse from 9:1. Note that sura 58 is the only sura in the Quran where all its
verses are “ordered”. Furthermore, the frequency of the word GOD
through chapter 58 is 2489 = 19 x 131.
From 9:75 to 9:127 there are 42
ordered verses and 17 of them are multiple ordered (more than one word
"GOD" has been used in the verse); the sum of these 42 verses is
4217. Note that 4217 is simply a permutation of 2147.
From 9:75 to 9:127 there are 25
= 42 - 17 order 1 verses. The sum of these 25 verses
is 2489. We also noted that 9:74 was the 58th ordered verse from
9:1. The frequency of the word GOD at the end of Ch. 58 is 2489. We already
know the connection of 2147 with 2489.
From 9:75 to 9:98 there are 19
ordered verses. The total frequency of the word GOD in these 19 verses is 26;
signifying 2698. Furthermore, we recall 75 is the number of verses in sura 8,
and 8 is the number of verses in sura 98, and 98 is the number of verses in
chapter 19.
From 9:75 to 9:109 there are 29
ordered verses; we know 29 is the index of prime number 109.
The
Earth Without the Moon
By" Hossein
Kowsari
15:85 - And (remember, 0 man:) We did not
create the heavens and the earth and all that is between them except in truth
(/or a purpose) ....
72:28 -.... He has counted everything, one by one.
As repeated throughout the
Quran, there is no accident in GOD's universe; everything is created for a
purpose, then progresses, evolves, and moves according to GOD's design toward
that goal and its final destiny. Every event, large or small is exactly
counted. We, as human beings, do not have all the information at our disposal
to know why a particular event occurs, which may seem unjust at the time, and
not another. Quran very specifically addresses this issue for those who do
believe in 18:60-82, among other verses.
In this article we are
concerned with created things and shall present one more example of how every
thing is created for a purpose, moon, in this case. As you recall we previously
gave many examples of laws of nature, properties of atoms etc. that had to be
exactly what they were for life to evolve and flourish and how the slightest
deviation would have prevented life, at least as we know it. Let us see if moon
plays any crucial role, or it just happens to be there. Let us imagine we have
the same solar system, same galaxy, same history of universe, same earth with
same characteristics- with only one difference: no moon. This, of course, is
not an exhaustive study; I only highlight some of the effects assuming there
was no moon.
Ocean tides are largely caused
by the moon, and so in the absence of moon they would decrease significantly.
What effect would this decrease in tidal activity have on life? For one thing,
the intertidal zone of the oceans; the regions
exposed on the shoreline, would be smaller and as a result the number of birds
and sea-feeding birds would be less and this in turn would affect the whole
chain of species, above and below, with disastrous results.
Without the moon, the earth's rotation would have decreased much more slowly. A shorter day would have had important effects on the evolution of life. Today our biological clock cycle is about twenty five hours, but there is a mechanism that adjusts these internal clocks every day to be in synch with the cycle of day and night. Research by physicians has shown that if day was significantly shorter than it is, biological clocks could not be pulled in synch with earth's rotation- we could not function.
Wind patterns, which are
generated in large measure by earth's rotation, would be quite different and
much stronger. For example, winds on Jupiter which rotates about every ten
hours are so strong that they create hurricanes that last for decades and maybe
even centuries! Wind patterns extend in complete rings around the planet. Can
you imagine how we could possibly have communicated amid such howling winds?!
That would have been the least of our problems, if we could possibly exist
under those conditions.
One may argue that the above,
and other effects not mentioned, are matters of degree and somehow we could
have adjusted and survived. However, moon plays other roles that is of absolute
importance to earth and its inhabitants and is not a matter of degrees. Moon
has shielded earth from meteors that would have otherwise hit us. Instead of
striking earth, they have smashed into the moon. We can see on NASA pictures
many of the scars they have created on the far side of the moon, which always
faces deep space and as a result is one of the most heavily cratered surfaces
in the solar system. There are more than a dozen craters on the moon's far side
with diameters of one hundred and fifty miles and more and numerous smaller
ones. Consider what catastrophe would have been if these were to strike earth.
Remember, in addition to the immediate disasters, they would cause hundreds of
miles of dirt and earth material be thrown into the air and they would stay
there for many years and prevent sunlight from reaching earth, causing global
winter for years to come and their cumulative effect would be total disaster for
life.
Research shows that over great
span of time cumulative gravitational effects from other planets combined with
their own slightly wobbly rotation have caused significant fluctuations in the
orbits and orientations of planets with dire climatic consequences, among other
effects. However, in the case of earth, the moon being so large and so close,
it exerts enough gravitational pull not only to move oceans in tides, as
mentioned before, but also provide a restraining torque on earth's propensity
to tilt and in the words of researchers who discovered these effects "in
one sense, one might consider that moon acts as a potential climate regulator
for earth."
According to astronomers the
material from which the solar system formed could easily have arrayed itself differently.
According to the theory of chaos, recently developed, even the tiniest changes
in initial conditions can and does lead to enormous changes in the end product.
According to this theory, in the case of earth for example, even if ONE of the
many billions of space rocks that coalesced to form earth had headed in a
SLIGHTLY different direction than it actually did, the result would have been
so different that earth's composition, energy, angular momentum, its tilt...
would have been vastly different and it is doubtful that we or any one else
would have been here at all.
Of course, as the Quran says,
GOD has counted all things and has assigned the direction of each and every
particle including those "billions of space rocks." What is puzzling
is that very many of these scientists who have discovered these and similar
phenomenon and effects, who do admit "these show how thoroughly
interconnected objects and processes are in the universe..." nevertheless
deny GOD, and continue to attribute it to chance, and combination of some lucky
accidents of nature. Glory be to GOD.
Ramadan, The
Month of Fasting
Congratulations to all
believers for the upcoming month of Ramadan (December 30, 1997 through January
28, 1998). This month is when we abstain from eating and drinking from
beginning of dawn to the advent of the night (sunset). This month is a feast
for our souls, commemorating GOD day and night. Ramadan is the month when the
Quran was revealed. Let us each one of us, individually, make
a vow to GOD to read the Quran from cover to cover during this month.
A
Note
A Farsi translation of the
Quran by Behruz Mofidi is
available. Interested parties should contact him directly in order to obtain
more information. His address/phone number is"
Tel: (310) 262-7838
Behruz
Mofidi has expressed and is expressing, in the
strongest terms, that although; he has translated the preface, the footnotes,
the subtitles, the items in the parenthesis, and the appendices from Rashad's English translation of the Quran; these items ARE
NOT parts of the Quran.
The editor
Good News
By GOD's Grace, we now have the
Journal of Submission in PostScript format. If you have a postscript printer,
please let us know and we will send it to you in this format, InshaAllah.
References
[1] Quran,
74:31
[2] Quran, 37:6
