Problems in meeting the challenge
Your article says: "You can write it in either Arabic,
English or any other language of your choice". I appreciate your
consideration for other languages, but in the end you also insist that
"Any produced sura to be considered (sura like it) should
fit in the Quran amid its other suras without disturbing any of its mathematical
miracle criteria". This can never be met in any language, leave alone in
Arabic. Let me explain the reason behind this.
(i) If I produce a sura with 19 sentences and 114 words, and with key words
like God, Law and Messenger in it (as you have insisted), my sura may not still
contain those same 10 letters (from A to Q) in multiples of 19! Conversely it
may contain many other letters in multiples of 19!
(ii) Secondly, I do not understand why words like Law and
Messenger should occur 5 or 7 times only! I wonder if you would disqualify a
Sura if it contains the words Law and Messenger, 19 times instead
of the required 5 or 7!
(iii) And also, if I use Tamil as the language to create a chapter like the
one you requested, I will never be able to produce words with letters Q and H,
as they DO NOT exist in Tamil. It is just like asking others to produce a
verse/chapter with Tamil letter "zha"
(ழ)
in them. This letter is unique to the Dravidian family of languages,
particularly Tamil and Malayalam!
(iv) And lastly, we now know that the criteria you have laid down for the
Sura are only hypothetical and no Sura in the Quran itself meets your own
criteria!. So the challenge, as far as the Sura is concerned, remains null and
void.
"The first to plead his case seems
just; Untill another comes and examines him"
What about the Christian claims?
You have made the task an impossible one because your criteria are not a
set of general conditions but something very specific to the Quran. To
illustrate this with an example, I would like you to refer to the Christian
claims in the first Biblical verse:
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth".
At least
11 of the 30 mathematical combinations based on number 7 have been described
from this verse. Some of these mathematical combinations are so unique that it
will be futile to try and produce verse of that type. Grant R. Jeffrey in his
book "The Signature of God" says: "When professors
on the mathematics faculty at Harward University were presented with this
biblical phenomenon, they naturally attempted to disprove its significance as a
proof of its divine authorship. However, after valiant efforts these professors
were unable to duplicate this incredible mathematical phenomenon".
So the point we have to realize is that the mathematical combinations in
Genesis 1:1 and Quran 1:1 are unique to themselves. Trying to imitate these
verses and at the same time expect the verse to have the same combination of
mathematical miracles will be a futile exercise, even if it is in their
respective languages, Arabic and Hebrew!
It is therefore not a surprise that you have also ended your article with a
similar note like Jeffrey's: "To this day, 3 February,
2000, for over 7 months now, there has been no single attempt to meet the
challenge, not even with a "Verse Like it." We are still waiting".
Verse like it: My Counter Challenge!
I hope you will appreciate my point better when you read my `COUNTER
CHALLENGE' below. I will be sending copies of this article to few of my friends
so that they can be a witness to my Counter Challenge.
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I have discovered an amazing series of
mathematical miracles based on number se7en
in a Tamil sacred text called Thirukkural
(100-300 A.D.). To know more about Thirukkural, please visit these sites
to view this famous work in Tamil (*
,
*
) and these sitesfor good English translations of the same
(*
, *). The verses in Thirukkural are in
the form of couplets (poetry of just 2 lines) with 4 metrical feet in
the first line and 3 metrical feet in the second (4+3=7).
The results of my research will appear on the Net by January 2001,
coinciding with the birth anniversary of Thiruvalluvar (the author of the
work Thirukkural). All alphabets begin with letter-A; Fact 1. The verse
should be a couplet (a couplet is a verse in two short lines) with even
number of words (preferably 8), but containing se7en root
words. (i.e. one of these 7 root words occurs twice). The letter-A
is the first
of all
alphabets; (Note: Alternate words for First is Begin, Alphabet is Written/Word, Primordial is Eternal) As you also insisted, the couplet produced should not only be a masterly composition of great spiritual message, but also grammatically and linguistically correct. |
Unique ones
I hope you would have by now realized that it is impossible to create a
couplet of my specifications! This is in spite of the fact that the criteria I
have laid down do not demand complicated Insertions or Replacements of Sequence
Numbers like yours!
In spite of their impressive mathematical claims, the sum of Numerical
Values of 19 letters in Bismilla (which is 786) and the 28 letters
in Genesis (which is 2701) are not divisible by 19 and 7
respectively!!