Allah's Gentle Artistry

Lions are among of the strongest predators in the African continent. They can be very savage towards their enemies and their prey, but very tender towards their own young. When baby lions are born, they are very small. They begin to eat meat at the age of three months, but the mother and other female lions in the pride continue to suckle them until they are six months old.

Lions, leopards and other big cats carry their young by the scruff of their neck, and while they are being carried, their babies stay completely still, allowing their mothers to carry them safely.

There are certainly Signs in the Earth for people with certainty. And in yourselves as well. Do you not then see? (Surat adh-Dhariyat: 20-21)

The care and tenderness that lions show for their young is only one of the proofs that invalidates the claims of evolutionists. They claim that in the natural world only the strong survive; the weak are eliminated and die off. The world of nature, they claim, is dominated by self-interest and a savage struggle for survival. Of course, creatures in their natural habitats hunt to provide themselves with food, and sometimes may even attack to defend themselves and ensure their security. But apart from this, the majority of animals in nature performs remarkable acts of self-sacrifice for their young, their families, and even for other members of their group, placing their own lives in danger.

Almighty Allah, the Creator of all things, teaches these creatures to be tender and compassionate towards their young, to protect other members of their herds or flocks, and to care for them.

By means of all the special attributes that He has created in living creatures, Allah shows us His eternal power and dominion over all living things.

When their young are in danger, mother animals behave differently than usual. Deer, for example, are usually timid and excitable creatures, but don't hesitate to use their sharp, cutting hooves against any fox or coyote that threatens their young. If they understand that they cannot repel an enemy threatening their fawns, they immediately throw themselves into the attacker's path, to divert the enemy away from their young.9

Everything in the heavens and everything in the Earth belongs to Allah... (Surah Al ‘Imran: 129)

Why do these animals put their own lives in danger to protect their young? As stated earlier, proponents of evolutionary theory assert that the world of nature is a battlefield, where creatures are in a constant struggle with one another in which the strong dominate and the weak are killed or die off. But this claim is very erroneous: As is the case with deer, many creatures are willing to risk their lives to protect their young, which fact by itself shows clearly how unreasonable the claims of evolutionists are.

With His supreme power, Allah has created gazelles, antelopes, elephants, birds and every other living thing. He is Lord of everything on Earth and in heaven.

For a few days after giving birth, a mother giraffe licks and sniffs at her baby. In this way, she both cleans it and learns its scent, which will later allow mother and baby to find each other in a large herd. If the young giraffe is in any kind of difficulty, it makes various vocalizations to attract the mother's attention. She immediately recognizes her baby's voice and runs to its assistance.

Your God is One God. There is no God but Him, the All-Merciful,the Most Merciful. (Surat al-Baqara: 163)

A mother giraffe never lets her young leave her side. If they are attacked, she pushes the baby under her body and strikes out at the enemy, hard, with her two front legs.

Giraffes live in small herds and look after their young together, and adults take turns caring for the young. Because of this cooperative system of "babysitting," other mother giraffes can leave their babies and go kilometers away in search of food.10

All the beautiful creatures in the natural world show us the majesty of Allah. And we must always be mindful of His existence and thank Him for all the blessings He has given us.

In the Qur'an, Allah has told us that we must be thankful to Him for everything:

Allah brought you out of your mothers' wombs knowing nothing at all, and gave you hearing, sight and hearts so that perhaps you would show thanks. (Surat an-Nahl: 78)

One factor that helps ducks swim so well is their webbed feet. When they push their feet out behind them, the webs spread out to give them more surface area to propel them. Baby ducklings have this ability from the moment of their birth. Allah, with His unlimited knowledge, has created ducks with everything they need to survive.

The feathers of a female duck are less colorful than those of the male. This difference in color is an important advantage for the females, who must sit on her eggs in the nest; their lack of bright color makes them less visible to predators as they wait for their eggs to hatch. They blend with their environment, and because of this camouflage it is harder for their enemies to notice them.

Allah, there is no God but Him, the Living, the Self-Sustaining. He is not subject to drowsiness or sleep. Everything in the heavens and the Earth belongs to Him… (Surat al-Baqara: 255)

On the other hand, a male duck uses his brightly colored feathers to protect his females, diverting the attention of enemies while she is building the nest or sitting on it.

If trouble approaches the nest, the male immediately takes flight, making a lot of noise; doing everything he can to lead the enemy away from the nest. These acts of self-sacrifice, vitally important for baby ducklings' survival, sometimes end with the death of a parent and provide yet another example of Allah's creative artistry.

One of the most noticeable characteristics of elephants is their attachment to one another. Acts of self-sacrifice and assistance occur not only among families but throughout the entire herd. For example, when hunters shoot at members of the herd, the other elephants do not flee but hurry toward those in danger.

Mankind! Worship your Lord, Who created you and those before you, so that hopefully you will guard against evil. (Surat al-Baqara: 21)

The young elephants are the reason behind this tightly knit cohesion of the whole group.11 A newborn elephant receives great love and tenderness from adults in the herd. If a mother elephant dies, another lactating elephant will continue to suckle it.12

For the first six months, a mother will follow her baby elephant wherever it goes. Each makes sounds that keep them continually in touch with each other. If the baby makes the indication that it's in any danger, all members of the herd come together to investigate the situation—a tactic that is quite good at dissuading enemies.13

This raises some questions: Why is it that all elephants act in concert on behalf of their young? How can they determine their needs? How do elephants and other animals understand one another since before they are born?

None of these creatures can manage these accomplishments through their own intelligence and willpower. The fact that elephants in every part of the world assist one another in these ways is an indication that a single Creator created them all; and that Creator is Allah with His limitless power. The amazing acts of self-sacrifice among animals form one of the wonders of His creation. In the Qur'an, Allah says:

The kingdom of the heavens and Earth belongs to Allah. Allah has power over all things. (Surah Al 'Imran: 189)

A mother zebra will risk her life to save her baby. If an enemy attacks, she uses her body as a shield between her foal and the attacker. Although she can run much faster, she runs much more slowly so that, if a predator animal catches up with them, she will be killed and not her baby. As a result of one of these dangerous encounters, the mother zebra may expose herself to death and even lose her life to protect her baby—behavior that cannot be explained by the imaginary theory of evolution.

And horses, mules and donkeys both to ride and for adornment. And He creates other things you do not know. (Surat an-Nahl: 8)

All animals in the natural world are engaged in a struggle. They hunt to survive and may attack when they have to defend themselves. Evolutionists take only these characteristics into account, disregarding the acts of self-sacrifice that animals employ to protect their young. In addition, behavioral patterns of cooperation, support and concern for the welfare of other creatures are frequently encountered in the animal world.

Because the theory of evolution regards the natural world as a battlefield, it can't explain the instances of self-sacrifice that occur there. The way animals live in the natural world clearly invalidates the basic claim of this theory. It cannot explain why a zebra that had run away to safety from its enemies returns at the risk of its own life and rescues other zebras surrounded by those enemies.

The self-sacrificial and cooperative behavior exhibited by animals is clear proof of the fact that the theory of evolution is untenable. Allah is the Supreme Creator Who has made the universe and every creature acts by His inspiration:

Allah created every animal from water. Some of them go on their bellies, some of them on two legs, and some on four. Allah creates whatever He wills. Allah has power over all things. (Surat an-Nur: 45)

It is unthinkable that acts of self-sacrifice by living creatures could result from millions of years of evolution. The intelligent behavior exhibited by animals is not a strategy they have developed over time, nor a solution produced by chance. We can't possibly expect intelligent, self-sacrificial behavior from a creature that is supposedly the product of natural selection, struggling to prolong its own lifespan in a savage world. The evident foresight and planning that animals display destroys Darwinism's basic assumption, that every creature is engaged in a self-centered battle for its own individual survival.

Creation is the only way to explain all of these animals' special characteristics. The instances of mutual support and intelligent strategy in every species clearly demonstrate Allah's dominion over living creatures. All the abilities they possess, as well as their intelligent behavior, are taught to them by Allah, the Creator of all, Who teaches them and shows them how to use their abilities. In His endless compassion and mercy, He protects and looks after all His creatures.

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Self-Sacrifice in Nature Proves Darwinism to be False

The theory of evolution claims that the natural world is the scene of merciless competition, and the theory's supporters try to inculcate this idea into the minds of others. Actually, the erroneous belief that nature is simply an arena of struggle has been a part of the theory since evolution was first proposed. The mechanism of "natural selection" promulgated by Darwin, the theory's author, proposes that creatures strong enough to adapt to their natural environment are able to survive and reproduce, while those that are too weak die off. According to this idea of "natural selection," nature is a savage battleground where creatures contend with one another in merciless struggles for survival, and where the weak is killed by the strong.

According to this idea, every creature must be strong enough to overcome others, if its species is to survive. In such an environment, there is no room for self-sacrifice, altruism, or cooperation because these could prove disadvantageous. Accordingly, every creature must be entirely selfish, concerned only for its own personal food, security, and well-being.

But, is the natural world really an environment where creatures engage in pitiless combat with one another, where cruelly selfish individuals strive to outdo everyone else and destroy them?

No! The observations made in this regard do not agree with evolution. Nature is not merely the place of competition that evolutionists claim. On the contrary, many species offer countless instances of intelligent cooperation: One animal may sacrifice its own well-being to the point of risking death; yet another may put itself in danger for the sake of the flock or herd, with no possible promise of reward. In his book entitled Evrim Kurami ve Bagnazlik (The Theory of Evolution and Bigotry) Dr. Cemal Yildirim, a professor and himself an evolutionist, explains why Darwin and other evolutionists of his time thought as they did:

Scientists of the nineteenth century were easily misled into adopting the thesis that nature is a battlefield, because more often than not, they were imprisoned in their studies or laboratories and generally didn't bother to acquaint themselves with nature directly. Not even a respectable scientist like Huxley could exempt himself from this error.1

In his book, Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution, the evolutionist Peter Kropotkin writes about the support that animals give to one another, citing the error that Darwin and his followers fell into:

... the numberless followers of Darwin reduced the notion of struggle for existence to its narrowest limits. They came to conceive the animal world as a world of perpetual struggle among half-starved individuals, thirsting for one another's blood… In fact, if we take Huxley, who certainly is considered as one of the ablest exponents of the theory of evolution, were we not taught by him, in a paper on the "Struggle for Existence and its Bearing upon Man," that, "from the point of view of the moralist, the animal world is on about the same level as a gladiators' show. The creatures are fairly well treated, and set to, fight hereby the strongest, the swiftest, and the cunningest live to fight another day."… [I]t may be remarked at once that Huxley's view of nature had as little claim to be taken as a scientific deduction.2

Allah is the Creator of everything and He is Guardian over everything. (Surat az-Zumar: 62)

True; there is a struggle and conflict in the natural world. But along with this fact, there is also self-sacrifice, enough to prove that the idea of natural selection, so basic to the theory of evolution, is totally groundless. Natural selection does not add any new features to any given species, nor can it change existing features to create an entirely new species. These facts stop evolutionists in their tracks; and their stalemate in this regard is discussed in the journal Bilim ve Teknik (Science and Technology):

The question is, why do living beings help one another? According to Darwin's theory, every animal is fighting for its own survival and the continuation of its species. Helping other creatures would decrease its own probability of surviving, and therefore, evolution should have eliminated this type of behavior, whereas we observe that animals can indeed behave selflessly.3

These facts about the natural world completely invalidate evolutionists' claim that nature is an arena of self-interested struggle, where the individual who best protects his own interests comes out on top. With regard to these characteristics of living creatures, John Maynard Smith poses a question to his fellow evolutionists:

Here one of the key questions has to do with altruism: How is it that natural selection can favor patterns of behavior that apparently do not favor the survival of the individual?4

John Maynard Smith is an evolutionist scientist and evolutionists cannot give an answer in the name of their theory to the question he has asked. (For examples of the extraordinary self-sacrifice and mutual assistance among creatures in the world of nature, see Harun Yahya's, Devotion Among Animals Revealing the Work of Allah, Global Publishing, Istanbul: 2004)

Evolution Cannot Explain Instinct

Another deception evolutionists resort to is pointing to the similarities between animal and human behavior. On this basis; they claim that human beings and animals are descended from a common ancestor and that similar behaviors have been passed down from that ancestor to subsequent generations. Some evolutionists, viewing aggressive behavior as a universally inherited impulse or instinct, maintain that we humans have not yet found a way to suppress it in our daily lives. This intentionally deceptive claim rests on no other foundation besides evolutionists' imagination. We must be careful to point out that actually, the impulse or instinct supposed to reside in both human beings and animals brings the theory of evolution to an impasse and is enough to demonstrate its invalidity.

Evolutionist scientists use the word instinct to describe certain behavior patterns that animals are born with, but they leave unanswered the questions of how creatures came to possess this instinct, how the first instinctual behavior patterns came about, and by what mechanism they are passed on from one generation to another.

In his book, The Great Evolution Mystery the evolutionist and geneticist Gordon Rattray Taylor admits that with regard to instinct, there is an impasse in the theory:

If in fact behaviour is heritable, what are the units of behaviour which are passed on-for presumably there are units? No one has suggested an answer.5

Your god is Allah alone, there is no god but Him. He encompasses all things in His knowledge. (Surah Ta Ha: 98)

Unlike Taylor, many evolutionists cannot make this admission, remain silent on the question, and try to gloss over it, offering answers that make no real sense. Actually, Charles Darwin himself realized that animals' instinctive behavior posed a serious danger to his theory. In his book, The Origin of the Species, he actually admitted as much—several times. Here is one such:

So wonderful an instinct as that of the hive-bee making its cells will probably have occurred to many readers, as a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.6

He is Allah. There is no God but Him. Praise be to Him in this world and the Hereafter. Judgment belongs to Him… (Surat al-Qasas: 70)

Darwinists commit another error by claiming that their supposed instinctual impulses have been passed down to us from preceding generations. From the scientific point of view, this "Lamarckian" way of thinking was proved to be false a century ago. So even evolutionist scientists themselves admit that instinctual impulses could not have evolved over generations! Gordon R. Taylor labels "pathetic" the claim that behavior patters are inherited by subsequent generations:

Biologists assume freely that such inheritance of specific behaviour patterns is possible, and indeed that it regularly occurs. Thus Dobzhansky roundly asserts: "All bodily structures and functions, without exception, are products of heredity realized in some sequence of environments. So are all forms of behaviour, without exception." This simply isn't true and it is lamentable that a man of Dobzhansky's standing should dogmatically assert it.7

Your Lord revealed to the bees: "Build dwellings in the mountains and the trees, and also in the structures which men erect. Then eat from every kind of fruit and travel the paths of your Lord, which have been made easy for you to follow." From inside them comes a drink of varying colors, containing healing for mankind. There is certainly a Sign in that for people who reflect.  (Surat an-Nahl: 68-69)

In Surat an-Nahl in the Qur'an, Allah gives the example of the honeybee to demonstrate the extraordinary secrets in the behavior of living creatures. Not only honeybees, but all living things behave according to Allah's inspiration. It is He Who inspires acts of self-sacrifice in living creatures and gives them their wonderful abilities.

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Newborn kittens are blind and defenseless. They weigh about 100 grams, and their mother cat gets very little sleep as she looks after her tiny babies. She keeps her kittens close beside her so that they are always kept warm and so that she can nurse them when they are hungry. Although their eyes are closed for the first week, her kittens have no trouble finding the nipples where they can get life-giving milk—their mother's milk—exactly what they need in order to live and grow. It is rich in nutrients and contains some special chemical ingredients that protect the kitten from getting sick.

Nine days later, their eyes open, but the kittens are able to fend for themselves only after eight weeks. Until then, their mothers look after them with great care and carry them to secure places to play and to rest.

Allah shows favor to mankind but most of them are not thankful. (Surat an-Naml: 73)

The devotion of these unthinking and unreasoning creatures to their young should make every intelligent individual pause to consider. Their behavior can come only from the inspiration of Allah, the Ruler of all living things:

There is no creature on the Earth which is not dependent upon Allah for its provision. He knows where it lives and where it dies. They are all in a Clear Book.  (Surah Hud: 6)

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Mathematical Miracles of The Qur’an Part 4

Numbers of Significance In The Qur’an

This section contains the results of various calculations performed on Surahs in which numerical terms appear. The same numbers obtained as a result of different calculations in the relevant Surah are also extremely fascinating. This section of the book deals with various types of calculation - such as the numbers of syllables and letters in the Surahs, the types of letter or their numerological values [abjad] —and reveals surprising similarities in the resultant numbers. The calculations in this section are not open to discussion and nor are they a matter for debate - anybody who performs the same calculations will arrive at the same figures as those which are quoted here.  References are provided throughout this section of the book so that any interested person is entitled to double-check the relevant Qur’anic verses.

In addition to the sublime theological wisdom and religious knowledge of the Holy Qur'an, it also contains very rich and extraordinary numerical references. In verse 29 of Surat an-Naba' our Lord says "... We have recorded all things in writing." And verse 28 of Surat al-Jinn reads "... (Allah) has counted the exact number of everything." These miraculous numerical references obtained from the Holy Qur'an are also manifestations of one of our Almighty Lord's Ninety-Nine Names. The title "Al-Muhsey," or "He Who knows the number of everything, even if it is infinite".

* (This section is based on Ahmet Maraşlı's book Kuran'da Sırlı Diziliş [Mysterious Aligning in the Qur'an ], (Okul Press, Istanbul, 2003)

The Allotment of Forty (40) Nights To The Prophet Moses (As)

And when We allotted to Moses forty nights. Then you adopted the Calf when he had gone and you were wrongdoers. (Surat al-Baqara, 51)

•  40 is the number of letters to the end of the verse from the term "arbaAAeena laylatan," meaning "40 nights."
• The numerological value [abjad] of the dotted letters up to "arbaAAeena laylatan " is 40. (By minor abjad calculation)
• This subject first appears in the Qur'an in verse 40 of Surat al-Baqara.
• Number of syllables in verse 40 in which the subject begins is 40.93

Furthermore:

• In addition to verse 51 of Surat al-Baqara, which explicitly concerns "arba’eena laylatan" (40 nights), this also appears in verse 142 of Surat al-A'raf. It also appears figuratively in verses 143 and 155 of Surat al-A'raf.

a) The Surahs between these verses are: "al-Baqara", "Al-Imr'an", "an-Nisa", "al-Ma'ida", "al-An'am" and "al-A'raf."
b) The names "al-Baqara", "Al-Imr'an", "an-Nisa", "al-Ma'ida", "al-An'am" and "al-A'raf" also contain 40 letters.

Twelve (12) Fountains Springing From Stone

And when Moses was looking for water for his people, We said, 'Strike the rock with your staff.' Then twelve fountains gushed out from it and all the people knew their drinking place. 'Eat and drink of Allah's provision and do not go about the earth corrupting it. (Surat al-Baqara, 60)

• Number of words in the verse until the expression "ithnata ashrata" meaning "twelve" is 12.
• Number of dotted letters until the expression "infajarat minhu ithnata AAashrata AAaynan" meaning "the twelve fountains gushed out from it [the rock]"; 12.
• Number of types of letter used in the term "infajarat minhu ithnata AAashrata AAaynan" 12.94

Help From Three Thousand (3,000) Angels

And when you said to the believers, 'Is it not enough for you that your Lord reinforced you with three thousand angels, sent down?'(Surat al-Imr'an, 124)

• The abjad value of the term "thalathati alafin mina almala-ikati," meaning "three thousand angels," is 3,000. (By major abjad calculation)

Help From Five Thousand (5,000) Angels

Yes indeed! But if you are steadfast and guard against evil and they come upon you suddenly, your Lord will reinforce you with five thousand angels, clearly identified. (Surat al-Imr'an, 125)

•  The abjad value of the letters up to the first letter of the term "almala-ikati," meaning "angels," is 5,000. (By minor abjad calculation)

The Sending of Twelve (12) Leaders

Allah made a covenant with the tribe of Israel and We raised up twelve leaders from among them. Allah said, 'I am with you. If you establish salat and pay zakat, and believe in My Messengers and respect and support them, and make a generous loan to Allah, I will erase your wrong actions from you and admit you into Gardens with rivers flowing under them. Any of you who are unbelievers after that have gone astray from the right way.' (Surat al-Ma'ida, 12)

• Number of letters up to the term "ithnay AAashara naqeeban," meaning "twelve leaders:" 12.
• Number of repetitions of the letters in the name "Ma'ida" (the name of the Surah) from the beginning of the verse to the term "ithnay AAashara " (twelve): 12.95
• Verse number: 12.
• The abjad value of the first and last letters of the verse is 12.59 By minor abjad calculation)

Thirty (30) Nights and Ten (10) Nights Being Set Aside For The Prophet Moses (As)

We set aside thirty nights for Moses and then completed them with ten, so the appointed time of his Lord was forty nights in all. Musa said to his brother Harun, 'Be my khalif among my people. Keep order and do not follow the way of the corrupters.'(Surat al-A'raf, 142)

• Number of syllables from "thalatheena laylatan," meaning 30 nights," to the end of the clause: 30. 96
• Number of syllables used after "thalatheena laylatan " (30 nights) to the end of the verse: 30.97
• Number of syllables from the word "thalatheena" (30) to the end of the clause: 30. 98
• Number of time the muqatt'at letters [unique combinations of letters that begin a number of Surah in the Qur'an] in the Surah (alif, lam, mim, sad) are used in the verse from the word "thalatheena " (30) to the end of the verse: 30. 99
• Number of dotted letters up to the word "Aashr" (10): 10.
• Number of undotted letters from the word "Aashr" (10) to the end of the clause: 10.
• The word "Aashr" (10) appears 10 pages from the end in Surat al-A'raf.
• The letters "alif, lam, mim and sad," the muqatt'at letters in the Surah, are used 10 times before the word "Aashr" (10).100
• 10 types of letter are used in the term "waatmamnaha biAAashrin" meaning "and then completed them with ten."101

Twelve (12) Tribes and Twelve (12) Fountains Flowing From The Rock

We divided them up into twelve tribes–communities. We revealed to Moses, when his people asked him for water: 'Strike the rock with your staff.' Twelve fountains flowed out from it and all the people knew their drinking place. And We shaded them with clouds and sent down manna and quails to them: 'Eat of the good things We have provided you with.'They did not wrong Us; rather it was themselves they wronged.(Surat al-A'raf, 160)

• The letters in the term "ithnatay AAashrata" (twelve) appear 12 times up to "isnetey ashrate."102
• 12 types of letter are used from the term "ithnatay AAashrata " (twelve) to the end of the clause. 103
• The letters in "ithnatay AAashrata " (twelve) appear 12 times between it and the end of the clause.104
• 12 letters comprise the words "ithnatay AAashrata " (twelve) and "isneta aşrate" (twelve).105
• 12 types of letter are used in the clause in which it appears before the term "ithnata AAashrata AAaynan " (twelve fountains).106

That The Number of Months In The Sight of Allah Is Twelve (12)

There have been twelve months with Allah in the Book of Allah, from the day He first created the heavens and earth. Four of them are forbidden. That is the True Religion. So do not wrong one another during them. However, fight the idolaters totally just as they fight you totally, and know that Allah is with those who guard against evil. (Surat at-Tawba, 36)

•  There are 12 syllables up to the term " ithna AAashara" (twelve).
•  There are 12 dotted letters from the term "ithna AAashara" (twelve) to the end of the clause.

Asking For Forgiveness Seventy (70) Times

(You can ask forgiveness for them, or not ask forgiveness for them. Even if you asked forgiveness for them seventy times, Allah still would not forgive them. That is because they have rejected Allah and His Messenger. Allah does not guide deviant people. (Surat at-Tawba, 80)

•  Total number of letters from the term "sabAAeena marratan " (seventy times) to the end of the verse: 70.107
•  The abjad value of the letter types used from the term "sabAAeena marratan" (seventy times) to the end of the clause is 70.  (By minor abjad calculation).108
•  There are 70 undotted letters in this verse.109

The Number of The Years and The Reckoning Thereof

It is He Who appointed the sun to give radiance, and the moon to give light, assigning it phases so you wouldknow the number of years and the reckoning of time. Allah did not create these things except with truth. We make the Signs clear for people who know.(Surah Yunus, 5)

A month in the Islamic calendar can only have 29 or 30 days. (There is no other possibility.)

•  A lunar month is 29 or 30 days. There are 29 letters in the verse up until the term "qaddarahu manazila litaAAlamoo AAadada alssineena waalhisaba," meaning "the number of years and the reckoning of time."
•  The abjad value of "al-Qamar," meaning "moon," is 29. (By minor abjad calculation)

We made the night and day two Signs. We blotted out the Sign of the night and made the Sign of the day a time for seeing so that you can seek favour from your Lord and will know the number of years and the reckoning of time. We have made all things very clear. (Surat al-Isra', 12)

One year according to the Hijri calendar lasts 354 or 355 days. (There is no other possible figure.)

•  The abjad value of the letters up to the term "litaAAlamoo AAadada alssineena waalhisaba," meaning "so you will know the number of years and the reckoning of time," is 354. (By minor abjad calculation)

Their Inability To Produce Ten (10) Such Surahs

Or do they say, 'He has invented it?' Say, 'Then produce ten invented suras like this, and call on anyone you can besides Allah if you are telling the truth.'(Surah Hud, 13)

• Variety of letters used in the clause up to the word "AAashri" (ten): 10.110
•  Number of dotted letters in the verse up to the word "AAashri" (ten): 10.111
•  Number of syllables in the verse up to the expression "biAAashri suwarin mithlihi muftarayatin," meaning "then produce ten invented suras like this:" 10.112
•  Number of dotted letters up to the term "qul fa’too biAAashri suwarin mithlihi muftarayatin," meaning "Say, 'then produce ten invented suras like this':" 10.
•  "Number of letters in the term "AAashri suwarin mithlihi ," meaning "ten suras like this:" 10.
•  Number of letters from the term "AAashri suwarin mithlihi " (ten suras like this) to the end of the verse: 10.
•   Variety of letters used in the term "biAAashri suwarin mithlihi," meaning "ten suras like this:" 10.113
•  The letters in the term "AAashri suwarin "(ten suras) appear 10 times up to "AAashri surah-thin."114

The Prophet Joseph's (As) Dream and Eleven (11) Stars

Yusuf told his father, 'Father! I saw eleven bright stars, and the sun and moon as well. I saw them all prostrate in front of me.'(Surah Yusuf, 4)

• There are 11 letters in the term "ahada AAashara kawkaban," meaning "eleven stars."
• There are 11 words up to the term "ahada AAashara kawkaban." (eleven stars).
• The letters in the term "ahada AAashara kawkaban " (eleven stars) appear 11 times up to "ahada AAashara kawkaban ".115

The Number of The Human Chromosome

He created man from a drop of sperm and yet he is an open challenger! (Surat an-Nahl, 4)

There are some 100 trillion cells in the body of a human adult. The cells all possess the same genetic structure. That genetic structure is also present in the chromosomes in the cell nucleus. There are 23 pairs, or 46 chromosomes, in a human cell – half from the mother and half from the father. These chromosomes also contain DNA molecules in which the characteristics of the person are recorded: hair colour, eye colour, height and other unique details which make an individual what they are. The scientific world only learned that there are 46 chromosomes in the human cell in the second half of the 20th century.

The words "manayyin" and "nutfatin" in the Qur'an refer to different things (Surat al-Qiyama, 37). "Manayyin" is used to refer to the whole and "nutfatan" to a component thereof.

* The word "nutfatin" appears in different forms below, such as nutfatin, nutfata or nutfatan, depending on its use in the sentence or grammatical rules. But the meaning does not change.

•  The abjad value of the word "nutfatin" (nutfa) is 23. (By minor abjad calculation)
•  Variety of letters used in the Surah up to the word "nutfatin:" 23.116
•  Abjad value of the letters used in the verse up to the word "nutfatin:" 23.  (By minor abjad calculation)117
•  Number of dotted letters in the Surah up to the word "nutfatin:" 46.

Then formed the drop into a clot and formed the clot into a lump and formed the lump into bones and clothed the bones in flesh; and then brought him into being as another creature. Blessed be Allah, the Best of Creators! (Surat al-Muminun, 14)

• Abjad value of the word "nutfata:" 23. (By minor abjad calculation)
•  Number of letters in Surat al-Muminun from "nutfatan" in verse 13 to "nutfata" in verse 14 is 23.
•  Abjad value of the variety of letters used in the verse up to the term "nutfata:" 46.118 (By minor abjad calculation)
•  Abjad value of the letters belonging to the term "nutfata" up to "nutfata:" 46. (By minor abjad calculation)119
•  Number of letters belonging to the term "nutfata" up to "nutfata:" 46.

Allah created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and then made you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives birth except with His knowledge. And no living thing lives long or has its life cut short without that being in a Book. That is easy for Allah. (Surat al-Fatir, 11)

•  Abjad value of the term "nutfatin:" 23. (By minor abjad calculation)
•  Variety of letters used from "nutfatin" to the end of the verse: 23.120

It is He Who created you from earth, then from a drop of sperm, then from a clot of blood, then He brings you out as infants, then so you may achieve full strength, then so you may become old men –though some of you may die before that time– so that you may reach a predetermined age and so that hopefully you will use your intellect.(Surah Ghafir, 67)

• The abjad value of "nutfatin" is 23. (By minor abjad calculation).
•  Number of dotted letters from the word "nutfatin" to the end of the clause: 23.
•  The word "nutfatin" is the 23rd in the verse.
•  There are 23 types of letter in this verse.121
•  The abjad value of the dotted letters up to the word "nutfatin" in the verse is 46. (By minor abjad calculation)
•  There are 46 dotted letters in this verse.

… out of a sperm-drop when it spurted forth;(Surat an-Najm, 46)

•  The abjad value of the word "nutfatin" is 23. (By minor abjad calculation)
•  The letters in the term "nutfatin" appear 46 times up to "nutfatin".122
•  The verse containing the term "nutfatin" is the 46th.

We created man from a mingled drop to test him, and We made him hearing and seeing.(Surat al-Insan, 2)

•  The abjad value of the word "nutfatin" is 23. (By minor abjad calculation)
•  The abjad value of the letters from the word "nutfatin" to the end of the clause is 23. (By minor abjad calculation)

Was he not a drop of ejaculated sperm?(Surat al-Qiyama, 37)

•  There are 23 types of letter between verse 35 of Surat al-Qiyama and verse 2 of Surat al-Insan.123
•  There are 23 words having letters from the clause "nutfa" in verse 37 of Surat al-Qiyama up to "nutfa" in verse 2 of Surat al-Insan.124

The Angles In Honeycombs

Your Lord revealed to the bees: 'Build dwellings in the mountains and the trees, and also in the structures which men erect. Then eat from every kind of fruit and travel the paths of your Lord, which have been made easy for you to follow.' From inside them comes a drink of varying colours, containing healing for mankind.There is certainly a Sign in that for people who reflect.(Surat an-Nahl, 68-69)

Working as a team, honey bees build hexagonal cells in their hives and fill the cells with honey under the leadership of the Queen Bee. Mathematicians have concluded that the hexagon is the most perfect and effificient shape these bees could have “chosen” for their special work. For example, if the cells in the combs were pentagonal or octagonal, then their edges would not weld together perfectly. Consequently, many parts of the comb would therefore remain used and the honey project could be deemed to be inherently inefficient. But through Allah’s Inspiration, bees store the greatest possible amount of honey by building their combs in the form of hexagons.

•  These are the only verses of the Qur'an that mention bees, honey and honeycombs. The abjad value of these verses is 720. (By minor abjad calculation)
•   The total internal angles of the comb add up to 720 degrees.
•  Every cell in the comb is a hexagon. Each internal angle in the cell is 120 degrees.
•  The number of clause (clauses) in Surat an-Nahl until this matter is discussed is 120.

The Companions of The Cave and How They Spent Three Hundred and Nine (309) Years In The Cave

Do you consider that the Companions of the Cave and Ar-Raqim were one of the most remarkable of Our Signs?(Surat al-Kahf, 9)

• The abjad values of "as-haba alkahfi," meaning "The Companions of the Cave," is 238. (By minor abjad calculation)
• The number of syllables in the Surah up to the term "as-haba alkahfi" (Companions of the Cave) is also 238.125
• The variety of letters used in the verse up to the term "as-haba alkahfi" (Companions of the Cave) is 7. 126
• The number of words from "as-haba alkahfi" (Companions of the Cave) to the end of the verse is 7.
• Our Lord's name "Allah" is repeated 7 times in the story of the Companions of the Cave in the Surah.
• "As-haba alkahfi" (Companions of the Cave) is in the 7th clause on the page.
• This verse is the 7th from the top of the page.

They stayed in their Cave for three hundred years and added nine. (Surat al-Kahf, 25)

In revealing how long the Companions spent in the cave, the Qur'an says "They stayed in their Cave for three hundred years and added nine." (Surat al-Kahf, 25) In interpreting this verse, commentators say that the Companions of the Cave slept for 300 solar years or 309 years by the lunar calendar.

• The number of syllables up to "sineena waizdadoo," meaning "number of years" is exactly 309.127
• There are 309 undotted letters in the Surah up to the term "sineena waizdadoo".

Then We woke them up again so that we might see which of the two groups would better calculate the time they had stayed there. (Surat al-Kahf, 12)

• This verse reveals that the reason the Companions of the Cave were woken was to establish which of the two groups would most accurately calculate how long the slumber had lasted. The number of syllables before this verse is exactly 309.128

They stayed in their Cave for three hundred years and added nine.(Surat al-Kahf, 25)

Allah, in His Eternal Wisdom, does not directly mention the number “309” in this Surah. He does say exactly how long these companions remained in the cave. Rather, the Qur’an speaks of an additional nine years thus drawing attention to the difference between the solar and lunar years. (Allah knows the truth.)

The solar year refers to the Earth's revolution around the Sun, and 365.242217 complete revolutions of the Earth constitute a solar year. A lunar year consists of 354.36768 days, the time in which the Moon orbits the Earth 12 times. There is thus a difference of 10.874537 days between the solar and lunar years. In short, 100 solar years is thus equivalent to 103 lunar years.

In order to determine the equivalent of 300 solar years in terms of lunar years, we need to add on 9 more years – just as in the verse.

• The total of all the numbers in this Surah up to this verse is 300. (300 by the Gregorian calendar equates to 309 years by the Islamic calendar.)
• There are 309 pages from this page, the last to refer to the Companions of the Cave and their sleep, and the end of the Qur'an.

That was the situation when we woke them up so they could question one another. One of them asked, 'How long have you been here?' They replied, 'We have been here for a day or part of a day.' They said, 'Your Lord knows best how long you have been here. Send one of your number into the city with this silver you have, so he can see which food is purest and bring you some of it to eat.But he should go about with caution so that no one is aware of you.(Surat al-Kahf, 19)

The Nine (9) Miracles of The Prophet Moses (As)

Put your hand inside your shirt front. It will emerge pure white, yet quite unharmed – one of nine Signs to Pharaoh and his people. They are a people of deviators.' (Surat an-Naml, 12)

• Number of syllables from the term "tisAAi ayatin," meaning "nine Signs," to the end of the clause: 9.
• The letters in "tisAAi ayatin " (nine Signs) appear 9 times up to the term "tis'i ayatin."
• Number of words from "tisAAi ayatin " (nine Signs) to the end of the verse: 9.
• "TisAAi ayatin " (nine Signs) appears on the 9th page from the end of the Surah.
• The variety of undotted letters in the verse up to the word "tisAAi," meaning 9, is 9.
• The number of undotted letters from the word "tisAAi" (9) to the end of the clause: 9. 129
• " TisAAi" (9) is the ninth word from the end of the verse.
• The abjad value of the muqatt'at letters (ta, sin) in the Surah is 9. (By minor abjad calculation)

A Group of Nine (9) In The City

There was a group of nine men in the city causing corruption in the land and not putting things right. (Surat an-Naml, 48)

•  The letters in the term "tisAAatu rahtin," meaning "nine men," appear 9 times between the expression and the end of the verse.130
•  There are 9 dotted letters between the term "tisAAatu rahtin " (9 men) and the end of the verse.
•  Nine undotted letters are used from the term "tisAAatu rahtin " (9 men) and the end of the verse.131
•  The abjad value of the muqatt'at letters (ta, sin) in the term "tisAAatu rahtin " (9 men) is 9.132 (By minor abjad calculation)
•   There are 9 verses in the story of the people of Shelah and Thamud.133

The Matter of Theninety Nine (99) Ewes

This brother of mine has ninety-nine ewes and I have only one. He said, "Let me have charge of it," and got the better of me with his words.'(Sura Sad, 23)

•  The subject of the 99 ewes begins at verse 21. There are 99 syllables from the beginning of the reference to the Prophet David (as) – from verse 17, to verse 21.134
•  The matter of the 99 ewes begins being described in verse 22. The matter of the 99 ewes begins with the 2nd clause of verse 22, and this clause is the 99th from the end of the Surah.
•  There are 99 syllables from the 2nd clause of verse 22 to the term "niAAajihi," meaning "his ewes," in verse 24.
•  The abjad value of the letters at the end of the verse up to the end of verse 23 containing the term "tisAAun watisAAoona naAAjatan," meaning 99 ewes, is 99.  (By the minor abjad calculation.)135
•  The abjad value of the term "hatha akhee lahu tisAAun watisAAoona naAAjatan," meaning "this brother of mine has 99 ewes," is 99'dur. (By minor abjad calculation)

The Seven (7) Heavens

He Who created the seven heavens in layers. You will not find any flaw in the Creation of the All-Merciful. Look again – do you see any gaps?(Surat al-Mulk, 3)

• The variety of letters used in the term "sabAAa samawatin," meaning "seven heavens," is 7.136
•  Number of letters in the verse up to the term "sabAAa samawatin " (seven heavens): 7.
•  The letters in the word "seb'a" (7) appear seven times from the word "sabAAa " to the end of the verse.137
•  The letters in the word "seb'a" (7) appeat 7 times in the verse up to the word " sabAAa ".138
•  There are 7 syllables from the word "sabAAa " (7) to the end of the clause.

Swearing By The Ten (10) Nights

By the dawn and ten nights,(Surat al-Fajr, 1-2)

• The letters in the term "layalin AAashrin," meaning "ten nights" appear 10 times in the Surah up to this term.139
• There are 10 dotted letters in the Surah up to the term "layalin AAashrin " (10 nights).