Re: A proof :Quran is original -Part/0,000000000003
How does the superstition of numerology proof authencity?
that is reaching you know, everything has a repetitive numbers in it if you exclude others. Look at the internet spams about the number 11 on septermber 11 or the assassinated presidents elected in a beginning of a decennium. It's superstition, numerology isn't a means of proving authencity in independant scientific circles... even my vacuum cleaner manual most likely has repetitive numbers.
now you don't need only to convince me of the truth of the quran's contence, now you'll need to make me convince that numbers are a legitemate use of proving something... and what does it proof? cause the explenations you give is a explenation invented by you. Maybe 19 means, that Allah has 19 centuries before the end of the world. Or that Satan was with a legion of 19 demons when creating the quran, or that Muhammed had 19 wifes, or that 19 simply means nothing!
anyhow, back to reality:
In spite of Dr. Khalifa's claim (who 'discovered' this supposed miracle) that no human conjecture is involved, there is a basic assumption in the very first statement claiming that this phrase from the Qur'an has 19 letters. When we rewrite the English transcription of the Arabic, eliminating the vowels which aren't written, but only understood, the phrase looks like this: "BSM ALLH ALRHMN ALRHIM", which counts out to 19 letters. However, there is a little mark in Arabic grammar called a "shadda" which means that the letter underneath the mark is doubled. "ALLaH" or "ALLH" has a "shadda" on the second "L", and could (should?) be written "ALLLH" which would then make 20 letters.
- In his presentation Dr. Khalifa has not explained how he made his decision to exclude the doubling of the letter; nor, for that matter, how he decided to omit the unwritten vowels.