Some of the Scientific Information Referring to Numbers in the Quran.

THE DATE OF THE LUNAR LANDINGS.

• Number of verses from the first verse of Surat al-Qamar to the end of the Qur’an = 1390
• Date of the lunar landings (Islamic calendar) = 1390. The year 1390 in the Islamic calendar corresponds to 1969 AD, the date of the lunar landings.

THE ORBIT OF THE MOON

• Number of times the word "Moon" appears in the Qur’an = 27
• Time it takes the Moon to travel round the Earth (in days) = 27

THE RATIO OF THE SEA TO THE LAND

• Number of times the word “land” appears in the Qur’an = 13
• Number of times the word “sea” appears in the Qur’an = 32
• Proportion of dry land to sea covering the Earth = 13/45 = 29%
• Proportion of sea to dry land on Earth = 32/45 = 71%

THE STAR SIRIUS

• The star Sirius appears in the Surah called an-Najm (Quran chapter 53), meaning “Star.” The stars comprising Sirius approach one another in their courses once every 49.9 years. This astronomic phenomenon is indicated in verses 49 and 9 of Surat an-Najm.

THE ATOMIC NUMBER OF IRON

• Al-Hadid is the 57th Surah of the Qur’an, and the numerical value of the words al-Hadid is also 57.
• The value of the word "hadid" alone is 26, and this is also the atomic number of iron.

THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH AROUND THE SUN: 365 DAYS

• The word “day (yavm)" appears 365 times in the Qur’an.
• It takes the Earth 365 days to orbit the Sun.

GENDER AND THE 23rd CHROMOSOME PAIR

• The words “man” and “woman” both appear 23 times in the Qur’an.
• The 23rd chromosome is the main element that determines an individual’s gender.

THE SPUTNIK RISING TO THE SKIES

• Verse 19:57 of the Qur’an speaks of “raising to a high place.”
• "Sputnik 1," the first unmanned satellite, was launched in 1957.

THE GENETIC CODE OF THE BEE

• Surat an-Nahl, meaning “Bee,” is the 16th Surah.
• The bee has 16 chromosomes.

Notes:

1 http://www.star.le.ac.uk/astrosoc/whatsup/stars.html (Leicester edu dept of Physics & astronomy); http://www.site.uottawa.ca:4321/astronomy/index.html#Sirius (University of Ottowa); http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~hrs/ay45/Fall2002/ChapterIVPart2.pdf (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

2 Dr. Mazhar, U. Kazi, 130 Evident Miracles in the Qur’an, Crescent Publishing House, New York, 1997, p. 110-111; http://www.wamy.co.uk/announcements3.html; from Prof. Zighloul Raghib El-Naggar’s speech.

3 Malcolm T. Sanford, APIS /Apicultural Information and ISsues from IFAS/University of Florida, Vol. 14, no. 4, April 1996; http://apis.ifas.ufl.edu/apis96/apapr96.htm

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