Before presenting the Mathematical Symmetry in God's attributes, I want to expose one of the greatest blasphemies of the followers of Hadith. Because of a famous hadith, the majority of Muslims believe that there are exactly 99 attributes of God. In that hadith Abu Hurayra narrates: "To God belong 99 Attributes, a hundred less one; for He likes Odd Numbers. Whosoever knows the 99 attributes, will enter paradise." Hence, the Arabic list of 99 attributes is one of the most popular posters in the Muslim world. Many memorize the list in hopes of making it to paradise. You can find it hanging on the walls of almost every religious house. Though the Quran clearly states that ALL beautiful attributes belong to God (17:110) and mentions MORE than 99 attributes, the followers of Hadith and Sunnah tend to limit God's attributes to 99. Unfortunately, it is a consistent behavior of traditional Muslims to prefer Hadith to the Quran. The Encyclopedia of Islam states this fact under the title Asma al Husna:

In fact, on the one hand, the traditional 99 "most Beautiful attributes" do not exhaust the list of all the Kur'anic attributes; on the other hand, some of them do not occur ad litteram in Kur'an.

Calamitously, traditional Muslims have fabricated more than 99 attributes for the prophet Muhammad, attributing to him many of God's attributes such as HAAD (The Guide), HASEEB (The Reckoner), MUJEEB (The Responder to Prayers), QAWIY (The Powerful) SHAFIY (The Healer), AWWAL (Alfa), AKHIR (Omega), etc. You can see those 102 fabricated attributes inside the cover of Qurans published in Pakistan, for instance. Muhammad's names rival God's attributes, and outnumber them.

The blasphemy does not stop there. It goes further. Through the 99 attributes, Satan has fooled them to attribute a bad attributes to God: ed-DARR (The Harmful). The meaning of "DARR" is very clear. Look it up in any dictionary and you will find the same definition: HARMFUL.

Dr. Cesar Adib Majul, in his book "The Attributes of Allah in Relation To The Mathematical Structure of Quran" discovered the following two facts:

1. Only four attributes of God have gematrical (numerical) values that are a multiple of 19, i.e.: Wahed, Zul fadlil 'azeem, Majeed, and Jami'.

2. The numerical values of these four attributes correspond exactly to the frequency of the four words of "basmalah," in the Quran; that is, 19, 2698, 57, and 114.

Frequency of: Gematrical value of:

Ism(Name), Wahed(One) ******19 (19x1)

Allah(God), Zul fadlil 'azeem(Possessors of Infinite Grace) ****2698

Al-Rahman(Gracious), Majeed(Glorious) ****57 (19x3)

Al-Raheem(Merciful), Jami'(Editor, or Gatherer) ****114 (19x6)

If we study this table we will notice an asymmetry. On the right side of the table are four attributes of God, but on the left side there are only three. Obviously, "Ism" (Name) is not an attributes of God. Therefore, we can hypothesize two things in order to have a symmetric table:

1. There may be one attributes of God which has a frequency of 19.

2. Only four attributes of God may occur in the Quran as multiple of 19.

When we examine the frequencies of all the attributes of God, we find that ONLY four of them are repeated in the Quran as multiple of 19. We have already discovered three of them: Allah (God), Rahman (Most Gracious), and Raheem (Most Merciful). The fourth one is "Shaheed" (Witness). This attributes is mentioned in the Quran exactly 19 times and thus fills the empty space corresponding to the numerical value of "Wahed" (One) on the right side of the table.

3:98* 4:33* 4:79* 4:166 *5:117* 6:19 *10:29 *10:46* 13:43 *17:96 *22:17 *29:52 *33:55 34:47* 41:53* 46:8* 48:28 *58:6* 85:9

Now we have the ultimate table of God's attributes that fulfills the symmetry condition:

Frequency Of: Gematrical Value Of:

Shaheed(Witness) ; Wahed(One)**** 19 (19x1)

Allah(God) ; Zul fadlil 'azeem(Possessors of Infinite Grace)****2698 (19x142)

Rahman(Gracious) ; Majeed (Glorious)**** 57 (19x3)

Raheem(Merciful) ; Jami' (Editor, or Gatherer)****114 (19x6)

We can read this table in the light of the Quran:

God bears WITNESS that He is ONE. GOD is POSSESSOR OF INFINITE GRACE by sending his revelation to us. He is MOST GRACIOUS and GLORIOUS. He is MOST MERCIFUL as the EDITOR of the Quran and the GATHERER on the day of Judgment. . . .

Edip Yuksel

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