This is how the index is calculated:
| Steps taken to calculate the Index | Reasoning |
| 1. We take the number of years someone has done the Contact Prayer as a submitter | Obviously, because every person will be rewarded based on how much of something they did. [6:132] Everyone will attain a rank commensurate with their deeds. Your Lord is never unaware of anything they do. |
| 2. Subtract the number of years that person missed being a submitter since he/she was 18.
However, we adjust the missed years under the assumption that God forgave a potion of them, as a proportion to how far in the past those years were, under the assumption that gradually God forgave 100% of the sin when 40 years passed from the time of the sin. |
However, initially when someone does the Contact Prayer, God uses them to cancel out the previous times that person has not done the Contact Prayer. [11:114] You shall observe the Contact Prayers (Salat) at both ends of the day, and during the night. The righteous works wipe out the evil works. This is a reminder for those who would take heed. When someone does a sin, and they do nothing intentional to correct their sin, if they are a good person, they will pay for it through misfortunes, accidents, loss of opportunities and so on, within the next 40 years, most likely gradually, with more payments being done earlier, and less and less payments being done later, until at about 40 years they have unintentionally paid for all their sin through difficulties in life. [5:26] He said, “Henceforth, it is forbidden them for forty years, during which they will roam the earth aimlessly. Do not grieve over such wicked people.” |
| 3. And then we add 1 year for every time a person has done Hajj together with us | This is just an approximation given that the amount of time someone spends to earn the money to go to Hajj in addition to the time during Hajj is close to the amount of time someone would spend doing the 5 daily Contact Prayers during a full year. |
| 4. If someone got introduced to submission through their father, we remove 12 years, and add them to their father.
5. If someone got introduced to submission through their mother, we remove 6 years, and added them to their mother. 6. If someone got introduced to submission through their spouse, we remove 4.5 years and added them to their spouse. |
So, the idea is that for the first 18 years of their life the children are controlled by their parents and their behavior (even if they don’t want it) is directed by their parents. So, a child who is under total financial dependance on his parent who does the Contact Prayer will also pray, and a child with a disbelieving parent will not do the Contact Prayer. [20:132] You shall enjoin your family to observe the contact prayers (Salat), and steadfastly persevere in doing so. We do not ask you for any provisions; we are the ones who provide for you. The ultimate triumph belongs to the righteous.[66:6] O you who believe, protect yourselves and your families from the Hellfire whose fuel is people and rocks. Guarding it are stern and powerful angels who never disobey God; they do whatever they are commanded to do. Now, based on verse 4:11, a male gets twice the share of the female. This means that the influence of males on what is right vs wrong, or wrong vs right is twice as much as the influence of the females. Otherwise verse 4:11 would have been unfair to females. So, because of thee males double influence on matter of righteousness, the influence of father in the religion of the child is twice as much as the influence of the mother. So, out of those 18 years, a total of 12 years are influenced by the father and a total of 6 years are influenced by the mother.[4:11] God decrees a will for the benefit of your children; the male gets twice the share of the female. |
| 7. If someone’s father was dead before the person became a submitter, we remove 6 years.
8. If someone’s mother was dead before the person became a submitter, we remove 3 years. |
This is under the assumption that the dead parent deep inside his or her heart was a believer who was very close to disbelief, which is very likely the reason why they died early. God, knowing that their child will be a believer in the future, and knowing that the parent would very likely not accept their belief due to their limited understanding of how the society has changed during their child’s time, and while God knows that the parent still has a good heart. God, to prevent the situation where a good-hearted parent rejects a believing child’s ideas due to their limited understanding, the only option left is to save the parent through the suffering of the early death, and send him to purgatory or the lowest parts of paradise. So, we only take out about half of what we would have taken, if the parent was a submitter who is alive. |
| 9. However, we reduce all the numbers from point 4 to point 8 by 33% | This is under the assumption that for example, even though a submitter might have introduced his children to submission, maybe they themselves were only submitters in about 12 years out of those 18 years. For simplicity reasons, we assumed that the parent was a submitter during the 2/3 of their child’s first 18 years. |
| 10. Then we reduced them again by 25% | This is due to the global forced behavior which is about 25% for the year 2025, as explained in a Friday Sermon titled, “The Global Forced Behavior”. |
| 11. If a submitter ever in his or her life married a non-submitter or had children with a non-submitter, the final score is reduced by 37.5%. | So, if we assume that a submitter might spend 25% of his energy to help/cooperate with the non-submitter, which helps the opposing team – Satan’s kingdom. Then it will take that submitter another 25% of their time to do good deeds to cancel out their bad part. So, a submitter who is married to a non-submitter can only be a half as effective in their submission even when they try as hard as the other submitters. However, because 25% of that 50% is forced (See, “Global Forced Behavior”), that means that 37.5% of the efforts of that submitter go to waste. And there is no way to avoid this. Even if the submitter decides to divorce to avoid this 37.5% loss in efficiency, their divorce will cause loses. So, either way, it is the same. So, when a submitter is married to a non-submitter, whether they divorce or not, either way, it is the same. It all depends on personal preference, and whether they think it suits them personally or materially, depending on their situation. |
| 12. This gives us the adjusted years of submission. | |
| 13. Then, the adjusted years of submission are multiplied by an estimated hourly wage in US dollars based on the country where submitter lives and the profession the submitter has. | This is so that we can know the monetary value of the time which the submitter spent in Contact Prayer. This is regardless if the submitter is working or not. There is a monetary value for which the society of that submitter would be willing to buy his time. That depends on his profession/skills and value to the society. Now, if a submitter earns a lot of money as a business owner, that does not count, because he is not exchanging the time which we could have spent in Contact Prayer for money, but he is just profiting from previous money which we could have inherited or maybe earned before. He is earning money with money, and not money with time, but we are trying to estimate how much money is his time worth. So, in that case, we estimate how much money that person would earn, if he was employed as manager receiving a salary in business similar to his but owned by someone else. Also, if someone is a student, he is voluntarily choosing to postpone his earnings for later, which means that we are not considering the value of his time to be 0. We don’t know that in the future, so we will assume it to be the average wage of the country. And for people who are in retirement age, we will assume about 75% of what they could earn with their profession before they retired. |
| 15. We multiply that by 0.5. | Because it takes only half an hour per day to do the Contact Prayers |
| 16. We multiply that by 365. | Because there are 365 days in a year |
| 17. We multiply that by 40 | Because God multiplies the good deeds of the submitters by 40 (See video clarification “Obligatory Charity (Zakat)”). |
Beware: This is not a measure of someone’s belief or not even his honor. It is just a measure of a portion of his honor, the part which is easily visible to the community of submitters without doing extensive investigation. And it is also something which changes as submitters progress. God knows everyone’s heart, and we love and respect each submitter as an equal brother or sister.