The Basmalah
From Mathematical Miracle of the Quran
| * This paragraph is an excerpt from Appendix 1 of the Authorized English Version of the Quran, by Dr. Rashad Khalifa. |
The Quran's first verse, “In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most
Merciful,” known as Basmalah, consists of 19 Arabic letters.
Its constituent words occur in the Quran consistently in multiples
of 19.
| The first word | “Ism” (Name) | occurs | 19 times. |
| The second word | “Allah” (God) | occurs | 2698 times (19x142). |
| The third word | “Al-Rahman” | (Most Gracious) | 57 times, 19x3. |
| The fourth word | “Al-Raheem” | (Most Merciful) | 114 times, 19x6. |
Professor Cesar Majul looked at the gematrical value of more than
400 attributes of God, and found only four names whose gematrical vaues are
multiples of 19:
| Divine Name | Gematrical Value |
| 1. “Waahed” (One) | 19 |
| 2. “Zul Fadl Al-`Azim” (Possessor of Infinite Grace) | 2698 |
| 3. “Majid” (Glorious) | 57 |
| 4. “Jaami` “ (Summoner) | 114 |
As noted above, the only Divine Names whose gematrical values are divisible by 19 correspond exactly to the frequencies of occurrence of the Basmalah's four words. The figure below illustrates this remarkable phenomenon:
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The four words of Basmalah are shown on the left side, and the only four divine names whose gematrical values are divisible by 19 are on the right side. The numbers in the middle are the frequencies of occurrence of the words of Basmalah, and, at the same time, the gematrical values of the four divine names. |
