Friday Sermon by: Rashad Khalifa, Imam of Masjid Tucson

Summary:

In this Friday sermon, Rashad Khalifa explains that 19 means “God is One,” then shows how the words “wahid” (one) and “wahdahu” (alone), and the five pillars of Islam (Salat, Zakat, fasting and Hajj), fit the mathematical code, with a message even in the numbers. He also notes that Jesus and Adam are each mentioned 25 times, and recommends the Quran’s prayer for protection from the devils (23:97-98).

Video Transcript:

Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.

I have been talking to you about the overwhelming, blessed explosion in the miracle of the Quran in the last few weeks. Gatut was supposed to give the Khutbah today, but because of the unusual circumstances, this blessed explosion, I again asked him to let me give the Khutbah today. So you have to put up with me one more time. But I want to go back to the basics.

As you know, the foundation of the miracle of the Quran is in the first verse, Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim, and these are exactly 19 letters. Now, we came to know that the meaning of the number 19 is that God is One, because in the time when the Quran was revealed, there were no numbers. They used the alphabet as numbers. For example, this served as the letter waw and also as the number 6. This was the letter alif and the number 1 at the same time. This was the letter ha and the number 8. Every letter doubled as a letter and a number. The dal also serves as 4. So when you add them: 4 and 8 is 12, 13, and 19. The total is 19. So the reason the number 19 is the common denominator is that it means that God is One.

This is the basic message of the Quran: do not worship except Allah. Sometimes I’m surprised at how many of us here do not know these basic pieces of information. So now, after this very quick review: the blessed explosion this time has to do with the five pillars of Islam. I’m going to deal with the number one pillar, which is worshiping God alone.

What we just found… I think most of you knew that the word “wahid” is found in the Quran 25 times. But six of those have nothing to do with God. They have to do with the Children of Israel saying, “We cannot tolerate one kind of food,” “lan nasbira ‘ala ta’amin wahid,” and Jacob telling his children, “Do not enter from one door,” “la tadkhulu min babin wahid,” and so on. Six of them have nothing to do with Allah. Nineteen say that God is one, 19 of them. So this keeps with the code.

But what is new now is that you take the numbers of the suras and the numbers of the verses where the word “wahid” occurs, and the total… One: you worship God alone. The total is 1425, which is 19 times 75. So much for 19.

Now, it is not enough to know that God is one, that Allah is one. You must worship God alone, and this is something new: the word “wahdahu,” God alone. This word is mentioned in the Quran six times. Five times it has to do with Allah, and one time with the Quran: “Wa idha dhakarta rabbaka fil-Qurani wahdahu wallaw ‘ala adbarihim nufura.” It has to do with the Quran: if you preach the Quran alone, they don’t like it. But for the five times, you take the verses and the suras again and add them up, and the total is 361. What’s this now? 361, for the word “alone,” worship God alone. This is 19 times 19. Now, this is assurance. It turns out that these numbers also have a message in them. Okay, so this is the first pillar of Islam, worshiping God alone.

The other basic pillars, as you know, the famous five basic pillars of Islam, are what? Salat, Zakat, Siyam (fasting) and Hajj. Now, it turns out, if you look at the index of the Quran, Salat is mentioned 67 times, Zakat is mentioned, I believe, six… no, 32 times, Siyam is mentioned six times, and Hajj nine times. Let us add these together; these are the numbers of times these basic duties in Islam are mentioned. 7 and 2 is 9, 15, 24… 2 and 6 is 8, and 3 is 11… 114: the same number as the suras of the Quran, 19 times 6.

Okay, that’s not the big deal here. This is profound, but what is really profound is this: you take the word “salat,” everywhere the word “salat” is found in the Quran. Take the number of the sura and the numbers of the verses, the numbers assigned to the ayat, and add them up, and the total for Salat is 4674. This is a multiple of 19.

And then you take Siyam (I’m going to take Siyam first) and do the same thing: you take the numbers of the suras and the numbers assigned to the verses and add them up, and the total is 1387, a multiple of 19. This is 19 times 73. You take Zakat, the 32 of them, everywhere the word “zakat” is found in the Quran. You take the number of the sura and the numbers assigned to the verses, and the total is 2395. Now, the computer did all this. This here is not a multiple of 19; it is up by one. But then you go to Hajj, and you find that the total, in the same manner, is 645. This is not a multiple of 19; it is down by one. But when you add all of them together, the total, of course, is a multiple of 19.

Now watch the message that this gives us. Salat: every Muslim in the world did Salat sometime during his or her life. Every Muslim did. It is the most important duty of every Muslim, Salat, and the number is a multiple of 19. The fasting of Ramadan: every Muslim in the world, before he or she dies, fasted sometime during Ramadan, without exception. Everyone must fast; every Muslim must fast. Rich or poor, they can do it. Now, Zakat is only for the rich. Not every Muslim pays the Zakat, and this is reflected in the fact that this is not a multiple of 19. And the same with Hajj. But together they are multiples. There is a message in the numbers also. You can see the extreme intricacy of the numbers, and the message that comes with them.

Not every Muslim in the world made Hajj before he or she died. Not everyone. But everyone did Salat, everyone fasted, and only the rich pay Zakat. This is up one, and this is down one. So these are the five basic pillars of Islam: that God is One, as I’ve mentioned to you, and these four basic pillars.

Okay, there is more that I will have to talk to you about in the second Khutbah, so turn to Allah, may He be glorified, and repent.

With the continuing research of Ihsan, who has been holding the index of the Quran and adding the numbers of the suras and the numbers of the verses, she’s coming up with this blessed explosion in the miracle, and also putting us to work. We are really sorry that she’s leaving tomorrow, but she does put us to work through the telephone anyway.

Look at this: Sura Qaf, Sura number 50, with the initial Qaf. You take… This is very simple; anybody can do it at home, without a computer. You look at Sura Qaf and look at the ayat where the letter Qaf occurs. You know, we have it in the blue book; you can see Sura Qaf and the verses. You add them up, and you have 798, a multiple of 19. Nineteen means God is One; worship God alone. And this is 19 times 42.

Well, it doesn’t stop here. You know what 42 is? It’s the only other sura that is also initialed with Qaf: Sura 42, Ha Mim, ‘Ayn Sin Qaf. So this interlocking and intertwined relationship of the mathematical code is telling us that this is the only book in the world, in history, that is mathematically composed, that is superhuman. When you read any statement in it, you know this is from your Creator. You have 100 percent confidence: this is God speaking to you.

And this is the importance of it. It never happened before in history, and it will never happen again. This is an original idea of Allah. You will not find such a book. You go to the university: how many books do they have in the university libraries? Millions. Not one of them is mathematically composed. But the Quran is.

I was writing yesterday something that I wrote before, but I want to share it with you. I was writing a book about Jesus, “The Truth About Jesus,” from the Quran, from the Bible, from the Gospels. And an interesting fact, very quickly: I was writing a chapter on Jesus’ birth, and the Quran says, “Inna mathala ‘Isa ‘indallahi ka-mathali Adam.” The creation of Jesus, as far as God is concerned, is equal to the creation of Adam. Jesus equals Adam. In other words, the creation of Jesus is like the creation of Adam: “khalaqahu min turab, thumma qala lahu kun fa-yakun.” God said, “Be,” and it is. He said to Jesus, “Be,” in Mary’s womb, and he was.

So it just happens that in the Quran (and anybody can look at this in the index) both Jesus and Adam are mentioned exactly the same number of times: 25 and 25. I believe the name of Jesus is a multiple of 5 when you look at the numerical values of it, but this will be another Khutbah, Inshallah.

And then I want to pass on to you a valuable experience. In all this work with the miracle of the Quran, and the book on Jesus that is geared to the average American here, we experience interference from Satan that is very clear. And we also found out how to chase him away, and it turns out to be a commandment in the Quran, in Sura 23, where it says it in Arabic. We tried it, and it works, and I want it to work for you. I want you to do it, as my brothers and sisters, because it’s really effective, and it is a commandment in the Quran.

It says, “Wa qul rabbi a’udhu bika min hamazatish-shayatin.” “Qul” means “say”; it’s a commandment. “My Lord, I seek refuge in You from the suggestions of the devils.” Excuse me, this is the literal translation. It would be wonderful if you could learn it in Arabic and say it just like this, because it is a numerical combination. The statement is, “Rabbi a’udhu bika,” (you know most of these words anyway) “Rabbi a’udhu bika min hamazatish-shayatin”: “My Lord, I seek refuge in You from the suggestions of the devils.” “Wa a’udhu bika rabbi an yahdurun”: “And I seek refuge in You, my Lord, lest they come near me.”

So I would suggest that you study this in Arabic and say it. I’m telling you, a thousand times a day is not enough, because the sneaky whisperer, “al-waswas al-khannas,” will grab any chance to come to you and suggest things against Allah, may He be glorified. So this is a very effective commandment, and this is my suggested dhikr, if you want to call it that, because you are making dhikr of Allah: “Rabbi a’udhu bika min hamazatish-shayatin, wa a’udhu bika rabbi an yahdurun.” And we’ll have to rush through, so: Akeem As-Salat.