Numbers and Astonishing Mathematical  Secret Codes in the Koran 

Compiled by: 

Dr. Muhammad Abdul Awal 

About the Author 

Dr. Muhammad Abdul Awal was educated in Germany and USA, and has 17+ years of Industrial  and R&D experience at AT&T Bell Laboratories (NJ), and 16+ years of Academic Teaching  experience during his 35+ years of professional career in a very broad and diverse national and  international environment (mostly USA, UK, Middle East and South Asia). Currently (March  2022): Dr. Awal is the Asst Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, City College of  NY, Department of Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering, NYC College of Technology  of the CUNY, Dept of Physics, Hunter College, CUNY and the School of Business (Technology  Management), and School of Engineering Technology (Law Enforcement Technology) SUNY Farmingdale. His major past research contributions are in the area of optical and wireless  communications, opto-electronic IC, Ultra-thin opto-electronic materials growth and device  fabrication and characterization, system engineering and concurrent engineering,  commercialization of technologies, system analysis, High Tech Manufacturing, optimization of  global supply chain network, Technology Economic modeling, Management of technology and  innovations, business and network performance modeling, and current interest in the area  of technologies/innovations, Nano Technology, Voice over LTE, academy-industry-government  liaison, and next generation wireless technology driven services and products (IoT) involving 5G  technology. 

He had studied in various colleges and universities worldwide, including earned a PhD in Applied  Physics from the City University of New York, New York, USA, and a Vor-Diplom in Physics and  Mathematics from University of Halle, Germany. 

Dr. Muhammad Abdul Awal has also earned a mini-MBA from the Bell-Labs Learning and  Performance Center, Piscataway, NJ, and is enthusiastic about writing books and researching  science.

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Introduction 

The nature of science is that it continuously evolves.  

This makes scientists, like myself, doubly enthusiastic about the researches we conduct, because  there is always a possibility of change. In science, the inherent rule of thriving is always the same.  New learning replaces old learning. For men of science, this gives us fallibility, and the changing  nature of science does not necessarily make the process of our earthly learning unreliable, but  makes it doubly useful. 

For any scientist, this very possibility of change makes science interesting and profitable to our  realm. For example, as a physicist, I study the solar system from this little earth, and the things we  see beyond the horizon are considered true and real, and we make hypothesis, observation and  theories based on what we see. One example of obvious science in Physics is the famous theory of  expanding universe. For thousands of years, astronomers wrestled with basic questions concerning  the universe. Until 1920, it was believed that the universe had always been in existence and that the  size of the universe was fixed and not changing. The idea of a static universe was not only popular  but believed unquestionably, presumably backed by science. However, in 1912, the American  astronomer, Vesto Slipher, made a discovery changed other astronomers’ beliefs about the universe.  Slipher noticed that the galaxies were moving away from earth at huge velocities. These  observations provided the first evidence supporting the expanding-universe theory. Before the  invention of the telescope in 1608, man could do little more than wonder about the origin of the  universe. 

In 1916, Albert Einstein formulated his General Theory of Relativity that indicated that the universe  must be either expanding or contracting. Confirmation of the expanding-universe theory finally  came in 1929 in the hands of the well-known American astronomer Edwin Hubble. By observing  redshifts in the light wavelengths emitted by galaxies, Hubble found that galaxies were not fixed in  their position; instead, they were actually moving away from us with speeds proportional to their  distance from earth. This extraordinary fact came to be known as the infamous Hubble’s Law, and it  was Hubble’s discoveries that had elated me as a boy, and gave me the lifelong aspiration to  become a physicist.  

Using the Hooker Telescope, Edwin Hubble discovered that the galaxies were indeed moving away  us. Edwin Hubble observed that the only explanation for this phenomenon was that the universe  had to be expanding. Indeed, Hubble’s discovery was and is still regarded as one of the greatest in  the history of astronomy. After he published his paper about the velocity-time relation in 1929, the  expanding-universe theory was accepted by scientists and astronomers alike. However, the expanding universe theory was mentioned only in one other ancient document prior  to Edwin Hubble. I was fairly astonished to find that well before telescopes were even invented and  thousands of years before Hubble published his Law, the Moslem prophet Muhammad used to  recite a verse of the Koran to his companions that ultimately stated that the universe is expanding. “And the heaven We created with might, and indeed We are expanding it.” (Koran 51:47) At the time of the revelation of the Koran, the word “space” was not known, and people used the  word “heaven” to refer to what lies above the Earth. In the above verse, the word “heaven” is  referring to space and the known universe. The verse points out that space, and thus the universe,  happens to be expanding, just as Hubble’s Law states. 

The second part which is doubly disconcerting about the Expanding Universe theory is that just as  we had abruptly discovered this, future generations might regress into primitive minded ness and  conclude, as they had for thousands of years, that the universe is static. This was explained with a  wealth of details by Brian Greene, who was a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia  University. Professor Greene told the students who attended his lecture that if the world should  somehow face a great disaster, and all technology got destroyed, and all the text books were  reduced to rubble, and the universe continued to expand for another fifty billion years, then the  humans who managed to survive all the disasters would glance up at the night sky and find no blue  or red shift there, and would have to conclude that the universe is not expanding at all. Naturally,  they would be wrong because that is the nature of science. As scientists, we are allowed to make  errors, change our theories, and come up with news hypothesis each year. However, Brian Greene  added that is one of the students left behind a paper, with a note, saying that the universe is actually  expanding, and the only reason they are being unable to see any red shift from receding stars is  because the billions of stars that surrounded this galaxy have travelled too far away, much farther  than the capacity of human vision.  

Professor Greene’s words hit close to home, and I too wondered how mankind would ever know  the absolute truth of this universe. What shall be our source of undeniable facts? How will people, a  billion years later, ever find out that the universe they are living in is actually expanding steadily?  Such questions perplexed me and brought me back to the Moslem holy book. That the Koran  mentioned such a fact centuries before the invention of the first telescope, at a time when there was 

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primitive knowledge in science, seemed remarkable to me, so with the curiosity ingrained in me as  a scientist, I decided to delve deeper into the study of the booklet which Moslems call the Koran,  their Holy Scripture. I found that like many people of his time, Muhammad, the man upon whom  Koran was revealed, happened to be illiterate and simply could not have been aware of such facts  by himself. Could it be that he had truly received divine revelation from the Creator and Originator  of the universe? Or was there some clandestine mission roaming around the earth? The possibilities  which I considered were endless, so I decided to begin at the basic. As a math-person, I started to  look into the pages of the Koran, and attempted to apply my mathematical formulas there, hoping  to find a pattern or theory about how this specific piece of information came to be.  

This book would have been incomplete without the generous contribution of Benumed Etikue, whose lectures and researches offered many of the knowledge imparted here. A  considerable amount of the information in this work is based on the findings of the  researchers at the Research and Studies center.  

The author and publisher are in no way liable for any misuse of the material contained within  this book. 

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The way to God, Exalted and Glorified be He, is the way of guidance and rectitude. It can be accessed only  through senses, mind and revelation. Since the human senses and mind are limited and unable to attain full  guidance on their own, the need emerged for divine revelation and prophethood. 

However, not all people are qualified to be prophets, so there was an urgent need for revelation from God to a  number of them to be an authority that guides people to the true knowledge of God’s will and full details about  the way to Him, Exalted and Glorified be He. Since revelation is not something tangible or visible to people,  there must be some tangible evidence of the veracity of a prophet’s mission showing that such a person is a real  messenger from God and that he received real revelation or inspiration from Him. 

This evidence is the “MIRACLE” for which prophets and messengers of God were singled out from among all  humans. Miracles enable the messengers of God to bring about miraculous events or acts that other people  cannot do. The miracles of each prophet support the truthfulness of his mission in his time and place; therefore,  they are transient events that end and only their stories remain. 

This applies to all miracles except the Koran, the miracle of the last and seal of prophets, Mohamed, blessings  and peace of Allah be upon him. The Koran is the only existing and everlasting miracle that addresses the  generations over the ages and is witnessed by people in all times. Therefore, there is no prophet or messenger  of Allah after Mohamed, peace be upon him, and no miracle after the Glorious Koran. 

It is the Koran – the unique book that is inimitable in its style, eloquence, rhetoric, as well as in its rules and  verdicts, structure, order of its surahs (chapters), verses and words, and the shape and positions of its letters. It  is unique in its beliefs and tenets; educational and moral system; universal signs and unseen tokens, economic  and administrative principles, comprehensive systems and methodology; the meticulous care, attention and  preservation it receives; its impressive impact on hearts and minds; and the sweetness and elegance of its  words. Above all, it is the only scripture with which Allah, glory to Him, has challenged both humankind and  jinn, ancient and present, jointly and severally. 

The Holy Koran is the last and immortal book to humanity. It is a heavenly system that regulates and organizes  the life of individuals and communities, and at the same time it is a miracle that is associated with and  inseparable from the divine system forever. Thus, the Koran owns a unique feature that is lacking in earlier divine  scriptures that contained a system, while the miraculous aspect was something else independent from the book  and the system. 

At the time of Moses, peace be upon him, people were skillful at witchcraft. Therefore, the miracle of Moses,  the staff, was similar to what they were skillful at. At the time of Jesus, peace be upon him, people were skillful  at medicine, so his miracle was to heal blind people who were blind from birth and lepers and raise the dead by  Allah’s will. At the time of Mohamed, peace be upon him, people were skilled at high literary style, eloquence  and rhetoric. Therefore, Prophet Mohamed’s miracle was the Koran, which challenged with its rhetoric and  eloquence the whole Arab nation that received the first message, and won the honor of preaching the divine  message all over the Globe. After the dissemination of the Message, the “miracle” for other people and nations  would be something else other than the high literary style and eloquence: the Koran is not only for the Arabs;  rather, it is for all times and places. Therefore, God provided it with miraculous aspects and elements that make  it a miracle that challenges people in all times in whatever they are skillful at. 

Our age is the age of science and knowledge. It only acknowledges tangible things, recognizes reason and  knowledge and accepts only obvious physical proofs. Therefore, the Koran challenges the people of this age with  its wonderful numerical structure, this structure that is part of the challenge journey over centuries and another  one of the infinite aspects of the miracle of the Koran. It provides people in our times with an irrefragable  scientific proof that the patterning and composition of the Koran’s chapters, verses, words and letters are  ordained by God, glory be to Him, through revelation, and not from anyone else. Common sense and good  reason cannot accept the claim that any part of this marvelous numerical patterning is a human effort, because  the language of numbers is the language of tangible, physical facts, the incontestable global common language  among all humankind. It is also the language of firm irrefutable evidence that cannot be denied or ignored. 

It is a language that has its miraculous aspect, exactly as is the case with linguistic and literary miracle. For it  interacts with the intended meaning in the minutest details to give a fantastic picturesque artwork for those  who can reflect on its deep meanings and comprehend it in this digital age. Digits and numerals have their own  eloquence that probably excels that of words. They have become the language of persuasion for deniers and  doubters of the authenticity of the Glorious Koran. 

Thus, generation after generation, and day after day, the Great Koran reveals in all domains more and more of  its marvels that never end. Hence the aspects of the Koranic miracle are as multiple as the angles of viewing or  approaching it. 

The masters of eloquence and rhetoric were unable to bring forth even the like of the shortest surah of the  Koran. This challenge still exists for people in our present times, not only in the domain of language, but also in  multiple aspects, including this miraculous Koranic numerical structure by all standards of our age. How then if  you know that this Koran was revealed more than fourteen centuries ago.

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It is really a Scripture with linguistically and numerically perfected revelations, as it comes from the One Who is  All-Wise, Well-Aware. Therefore, you will not find any conflict or defect throughout the book, and its magnificent  numerical system is not at the expense of its eloquence and literary excellence, nor does its clear Arabic which  defeated and surpassed the most eloquent poets and orators detract from the amazing numerical structure of  the Koran’s letters and words. 

In this new publication, we present firm certain facts and clear inductive data about the Koranic numerical  structure. Each of these facts constitutes an unquestionable and undeniable proof of the veracity of this Koran,  because they can easily be verified. 

These facts mean that the Koran’s letters and words in its verses and surahs are not chosen haphazardly, but in  accordance with a highly accurate and perfect divine balance that takes into consideration a great number of  facts simultaneously without affecting the meaning. This feature that characterizes the marvelous structure of  Glorious Koran is one of the hardest challenges to the human mind. Therefore, all humankind – with all ways of  knowledge it possesses – cannot create even the like of one verse from the Koran. 

Believers in the Koran will be pleased with what they see in the Scripture of their Lord, Exalted and Glorified be  He, and their faith will be augmented; while disbelievers and deniers of the Koran, and those who raise doubts  about its source, will hopefully contemplate it and discover that it is a revelation from God, glory be to Him, and  then believe in it. 

The Glorious Koran is far more marvelous than the human mind can imagine, and too broad for anyone to  comprehend fully even one aspect of it. What I present in this and other books is no more than a mere glimmer  of the perfect and highly outstanding features of the Koranic structure. Each letter of the Koran conceals behind  it an integrated world of wonders and numerical systems that are controlled by the balance of revelation.  However surprised you may seem to be at the marvels of the Koranic numeric structure, which we are trying to  expound some general features and aspects of here, they are no more than tiny drops from a sea without shore,  yet they constitute irrefragable evidence of the truthfulness of this Koran and its divine source. 

My welfare is only in Allah..  

In Him I trust and unto Him I turn. 

Koran 

God supported all his prophets and messengers with tangible miracles in domains in which people excelled in  their time, so that the challenge would be stronger and more effective. Those miracles were a proof of the  truthfulness of their mission. They were valid only in their physical and historical context and were meant to be  evidence against those who witnessed them. Of all prophets sent by Allah to humankind, Mohamed, peace be  upon him, had the greatest number of miracles. While all these miracles had ended in their own time and  context, as was the case with the miracles of earlier prophets, and became part of the Prophet’s biography, the  Glorious Koran ensures as the everlasting miracle for all times and places, and for all peoples and generations.  It is one and the same book whose content never changes, yet its meanings and connotations adapt so as to  suit the people of each era. 

The marvels and miracles of the Koran are countless and endless. They are multiple, diverse and never-ending,  so every period of time has its share of new aspects of this ageless miracle. It is the Koran- the unique book that is inimitable in its style, eloquence, rhetoric, as well as in its rules and verdicts, structure, order of its surahs  (chapters), verses and words, and the shape and positions of its letters. It is unique in its beliefs and tenets;  educational and moral system; universal signs and unseen tokens, economic and administrative principles,  comprehensive systems and methodology; the meticulous care, attention and preservation it receives; its  impressive impact on hearts and minds; and the sweetness and elegance of its words. Above all, it is the only  scripture with which Allah, glory be to Him, has challenged both humankind and jinn, ancient and present, jointly  and severally. The journey of Koranic challenge with the lingual and rhetorical miracle began when the Arabic  language was at the apex of its glory. However, we live at a different era in which emerged the digital and  numerical power, making letters and numbers more eloquent than words. Thus, the Koranic numerical fabric  has come to challenge the whole humankind to bring forth the like of the Koran in the accuracy of the structure  of its surahs, verses, words and letters. 

A book cannot be a divine holy scripture or recognized to be the Word of Allah unless it is proven conclusively  that it was recorded and written down during the time of the prophet who received the revelation in his own  language. It must be reported to us through a valid continuous chain of narrators without any interruption,  change or alteration. If any of these essential conditions is missing, the book cannot be sacred, divine or deemed  to be the word of Allah, even though the whole humankind agreed unanimously on it. As for the Koran, Prophet  Mohamed, may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him, ordered every text of revelation to be written  down immediately. The whole text of the Koran was recorded verse by verse, word by word and letter by letter,  as dictated directly from the lips of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him. Therefore, the Glorious Koran was  scripted in the Prophet’s time and handed over and exchanged among Muslims, and also memorized and  obeyed by them. 

Since the Glorious Koran is the word of Allah, the Almighty Creator, with its divine purity and enlightening  illuminations, it must be different from human speech in structure and content; scientific, historical, educational  and psychological indications; administrative and economic controls; and future prophecies. Add to these the  Quran’s steadfastness and survival against all attempts of distortion, and its challenges for both humans and jinn  combined to create something similar to it as a whole, or ten of its surahs, or even one of its surahs. This 

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challenge is still ongoing, and yet not a person of reason proceeded to say: “I could write a surah like those of  the Koran.” On this, Allah, glory be to Him, declares: 

^َ_ك^ْ_و^َ_ل^َ_{ِ ِه ول}^ِْ_ِمثب^َ_ن^ْ_و^ُ_ت^ْ_أ^َ_ي^َ_{ِن لآر ْ}^ُ_ق^ْ_{ا ال}^َ_ذ^َ_{ِل ه}^ِْ_{ِمثا ب}^ْ_و^ُ_ت^ْ_أ^َ_ي^ْ_ن^َ_أ^َ_َل^َ_ع^ُّ_ِجن^ْ_الَ^ُ_{س و}^ْ_ن^ْ_ِ^لْ_{ِت ا}^َ_ع^َ_م^َ_ت^ْاج_ِ^ن_ِئ ^َ_للْ^ُق 

^ْ_م^ُ_هض ^ُْ_ع^َ_ب^َان 

88( الرساء  

اْ_ي ً^ْ_ِه^َ_{ٍض ظ}^ْ_ع^َ_ِبل ( 

“88. Say: Verily, though mankind and the Jinn should assemble to produce the like of this Quran, they could not  produce the like thereof though they were helpers one of another.” (The Koran 17:88) The miracle of the Glorious Koran, which was revealed to be a source of guidance for the whole mankind, cannot  be limited to its superior language, which can be appreciated and comprehended only by Arabs. Even the Arabs  of today have mostly lost the refined linguistic sense and talent that characterized their forefathers, except for  a few linguists and scholars. Since the Koranic challenge to human beings and jinns collectively is a continuous  one to the Day of Judgement, there must be miraculous aspects other than the language. This motivated a  number of the Koran scholars to research other aspects of the Koranic miracle, such as belief, worship, morals,  legislations, and so forth. 

In order to establish a strong argument and provide crucial proofs against people in our times through the  language they understand best, i.e. the language of science, Allah, glory be to Him, left for us in His Holy Book  more than a thousand verses that speak about the universe, its components and phenomena with such a high  scientific accuracy that came to be understood only with the advent of modern contemporary sciences i.e. in  the past two centuries or so. This precedence and uniqueness – by pointing at a huge bulk of universal facts  more than 10 centuries before human science discovered them – is what we call the scientific miracles of the  Holy Koran. This is an easy discourse that enables people at present to understand the excellence and  uniqueness of the great Islam over other beliefs and faiths and the value of the Glorious Koran over other  scriptures, whatever the language used in addressing people. The Koranic context of universal verses in the  Glorious Koran indicates that they are mentioned as a testimony to the infinite power of the Creator over His  creation, and to godship, lordship and absolute oneness of Allah, Exalted be He above His creation. Allah, glory  be to Him, has formulated the verses about the universe in a marvelous way that can be understood by people  at all times in a way that suits their level of knowledge and understanding of the universe, its components and  phenomena. 

No person of reason can imagine a source for this huge multitude of scientific facts in the Glorious Koran other  than Allah, the Almighty Creator. It is a book that was revealed over one thousand four hundred years ago unto  a man who could not read or write, amidst a nation whose majority were also illiterate, at a time when no one  in the world knew anything about these scientific facts that only began to unravel in the nineteenth and  twentieth centuries. We find that many verses in the Koran urge us to contemplate the verses of this noble book  ^{and reflect on the signs of His power in the universe:َ}_أكَ^ِّ_ب^َ_ِ^ر_{ِف ب}^ْ_ك^َ_ي^ْ_م^َ_ل^َ_و^َ_أ^ُّ_قحَ^ْ_ال^ُ_ه^ى_ن^َ_أ^ْ_م^ُ_ه^َ_ل^َنْ_ئ ى^َ_ب^َ_ت^َ_يّ^َ_ت ى^َ_ح^ْ_ِ ^م_ِسه^ُ_ف^ْ_ن^َأِ_ي^ن_ف^َ_{ِق وا}^َ_ف^ْالِ_ي^ن_{ا ف}^َ_ِنات^َ_آي^ْ_ِ ^ميه_ِ^ُ_ي نَ 

ٍ_ء^ْس _يلِّ _ش َ^ُ_ك^َ_َل^َ_ع^ُ_ه^ىنٌيد_ِه^َش 

_{( فص} ^ّ _{53 لت} ) 

“53. We shall show them Our portents on the horizons and within themselves until it will be manifest unto them  that it is the Truth. Does it not suffice that your Lord is Witness over all things?” (The Koran 41:53) On the Authenticity of the Koran, the Orientalist Sir William Muir wrote as follows: 

“There is probably in the world no other book which has remained twelve centuries with so pure a text.” After a study which lasted ten years, Dr. Maurice Bucaille spoke about the existence in the Koran of certain  statements concerning physiology and reproduction: “Our knowledge of these disciplines is such that it is  impossible to explain how a text produced at the time of the Koran could have contained ideas that have only  been discovered in modern times.” 

As Mahatma Ghandi affirmed, “My reading of the Quran has convinced me that the basis of Islam is not violence  but is unadulterated Peace. It regards forbearance as a superior to vengeance. The very word ‘Islam’ means  Peace, which is nonviolence.” It is guidance for human beings: 

_م^َ_و^ْ_ق^َ_أ^َ_ِ^ه_يّ^َت ِ_ي^َّ_ِلِ_{دي ل}^ْ_ه^َ_ي^َ_{آنر ْ}^ُ_ق^ْ_{ا ال}^َ_ذ^َ_ه^ى_ِنإ 

ُ ( ⁾  

“Surely this Qur’ān shows the way to that which is most upright.” 

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Main References: 

1.The Holy Koran. 

2.Picthall, M.M., The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. 

3.Maurice Bucaille, The Bible, the Quran and Science, 1978. 

4.Gandhi, M. K. 1949, Communal Unity, Ahemdabad: Navjeevan 

Who Is God? 

Everyone is born upright by nature. Pure nature leads to Allah, the One and Only True God. In fact, human nature  awakes to Almighty Allah’s existence very early in life, even earlier than we may think. We generally think that  only an older person ponders over Allah’s existence and Oneness. But if we observe the life of a little child, we  notice that in a certain stage of his life, he asks his parents endless questions about the things he sees around  him in the universe. Who made the heaven? Why is the sky blue? Where does the sun go at night? Why doesn’t 

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it appear to us at night? Where does light go when the dark comes? Why do stars glitter? Where does the earth  end? Why do some flowers have smells while others don’t? Where did I come from? Where was I before I came?  Etc. What do all these questions mean and indicate? They indicate that nature in this child has begun to awake  and recognize the Creator of the earth and heavens through His tangible and seen creation. 

If we have a look at the heaven and earth, we find that rain falls from clouds, fruit is produced from trees, trees  grow from soil and water, water originates from oxygen and hydrogen. Since man opened his eyes on this  universe, he has never seen an incident or event happen by itself without a cause or something exist without a  maker or creator. This has become a de facto unquestionable fact. No one can break a plate and then claim that  it broke by itself without a human or non-human cause. Thus every effect has a cause that makes it happen, and  there is a maker or manufacturer of every machine or instrument. Then how can a person dare to claim that our  world or universe has just occurred without a creator though everything in it is far more complicated and  accurate than a man-made machine. 

Whether people agreed or not upon the wise reasons behind the existence of the universe, that would not  change the result concluded through scientific reasoning which confirms the existence of the Great Creator, the  Almighty, the All-Knowing and the Wise God, Who believers agree to call Allah, the Almighty. The name Allah  (God) in Islam never refers to Mohamed, as many Christians may think; Allah is the personal name of God. 

What do Muslims believe about Allah (God)? 

1. He is the one God, Who has no partner. 

2. Nothing is like Him. He is the Creator, not created, nor is He a part of His creation. 3. He is All-Powerful, absolutely Just. 

4. There is no other entity in the entire universe worthy of worship besides Him. 

5. He is First, Last, and Everlasting; He was when nothing was, and will be when nothing else remains. 6. He is the All-Knowing, and All-Merciful, the Supreme, the Sovereign. 

7. It is only He Who is capable of granting life to anything. 

8. He sent His Messengers (peace be upon them) to guide all of mankind. 

9. He sent Mohamed, peace and blessing be upon him, as the last Prophet and Messenger for all  mankind. 

10. His book is the Holy Koran, the only authentic revealed book in the world that has been  kept without distortion. 

11. Allah knows what is in our hearts. 

The Glorious Koran is the best authentic source to know the reality and attributes of Allah

Open your eyes

I hold the utmost respect in my heart,
For those who are never separated from their families.

Some fathers, however, wear sharp arrows,
slowly eroding the rights of their daughters to freedom.
They say they love them, but they are bound tightly,
Their limited minds, girls, forbidding the light.

Oh how they violate the wishes of their daughters, .
saw the depth of his illness.
It is considered a sin to write as a girl,
Not knowing they are caught in the dark.

How many different souls do you cover?
You cannot understand the magnitude of this.
Harming girls is a horrible crime.
Education, dreams, and time to be rejected.

But in this big world, there can be disappointment,
However, women deserve a safe place and housing.
No sleep or torture, let it be done,
Because they are beautiful and safe.

So open your eyes and see,
The power and strength of your daughters.
Let go of the closed bonds of life, .
and give them the freedom to really shine.


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Home from School

Whenever I’m late returning from school,
I must withdraw a fish from the river’s pocket
And offer it to the
Oil in the frying pan!
I devise a street—exactly like those in China—flooded with masses of passersby
And picture myself crammed onto it,
Waiting for the green light
Before I walk.
I draw a storm,
To carry me away,
Another one to lift my books,
And a third, a sandstorm, to make the scene more intense.
……………………….
But as easily as a cloud,
I sit in the corner there,
On a bench by a pink door,
Listening to a vendor cry:
“Stork Eggs! Bayd al-Laqlaq !” 1
He passes

1 Bayd al-Laqlaq is a candy made from sugar and flavorings. The vendor carries them in a basket
while singing: “The stork soared and flew off. It attacked the headman’s house.”

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Near houses
That haven’t yet been stilled by a key’s sigh.
I rest my head on the sun’s palm
And watch
The stork’s fluttering wing
Spray
Sugar confetti
On the roofs
Of the street’s houses!

Faleeha Hassan is a poet, teacher, editor, writer, and playwright born in Najaf, Iraq, in 1967, who now lives in the United States. Faleeha was the first woman to write poetry for children in Iraq. She received her master's degree in Arabic literature, and has now published 26 books, her poems have been translated into English, Turkmen, Bosnian, Indian, French, Italian, German, Kurdish, Spain, Korean, Greek, Serbia, Albanian, Pakistani, Romanian, Malayalam, Chinese,
ODIA, Nepali and Macedonian language. 

She is a Pulitzer Prize Nominee for 2018
PushCart Prize Nominee for 2019.
Member of International Writers and Artists Association.
Winner of the Women of Excellence Inspiration award from SJ magazine 2020,
Winner of the Grand Jury Award (the Sahitto International Award for Literature 2021)
One of the Women of Excellence selection committees 2023
Winner of women the arts award 2023
Member of Whos’ Who in America 2023

SAHITTO AWARD, JUDGING PANEL 2023
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What should be the speech of a lawyer?

        It is known that every professional talk a lot about the important aspects, problems and solutions of his field, people can attract attention. Effective speech and eloquence are also very important in the field of law. Speech is a person’s life; therefore, it is impressive and correct in written and oral speech must be able to speak beautifully. So, mastering speech culture and language standards, is his ability to use the means of expression in different situations. Public speaking, first of all, deep knowledge and experience of the same topic from us demand the moral right to speak in front of others is enough. That is why, we should not be afraid of public speaking. After all, the main thing is not that you speak beautifully, but that you have an idea worth saying is what you can deliver to your audience. Lawyers are always human has to communicate a lot with. It is different during the communication period there may be situations. In similar situations, the lawyer himself. He should be able to manage and convince people through his speech. For example, the court to the rights of another client while the lawyer defends his client not to use offensive words, to make people sitting in the courtroom to his speech.

He should be able to attract, most importantly, he should be able to prove that his client is right should be able to find evidence. If he cannot find such evidence, the lawyer is in court he may not be able to protect his client, he may end up in a disadvantageous situation. Or rather, if a strong opinion is expressed, but it is not delivered correctly, it is the citizen’s fault to prove his innocence or, if he is guilty, to impose a just punishment against him also causes difficulties. If the law is the main tool of the lawyer, the effective expression of it is the word. That’s why the lawyer’s voice he must have an impressive power, only then he can convince everyone to his opinion convinces. In my opinion, every lawyer has his own way of speaking it is required to show that he is a cultured person. Employees in the legal field the symbol of the state. Accordingly, when citizens turn to them, they are obliged to answer, realizing their responsibilities. Lawyers during his career in different audiences, in front of people of various levels it is necessary for them to master the skill of making a successful speech. Of this and for him, first of all, knowing what to deliver to the audience is his main thing able to express ideas clearly and succinctly, having a confident tone, sincere being able to attract the audience to his speech is one of the most important aspects.

             The great American writer Mark Twain says the following in one of his works cited the idea: “To prepare a bright urgent speech, usually it will take me more than three weeks.” So, public speaking at first glance, it seems easy to be able to speak, but the unique knowledge is huge as responsibility demands. Even great orators avoid public speaking they form their speech first. In conclusion, lawyers in speech, first of all, having the ability to convince others is important. Because this is one of the sensitive issues in their work.

                                              Juraboyeva Mahbuba Asqarbek                               Student of Tashkent State Law University   

Stoops to Conquer

            I live in a relatively affluent, highly literate neighborhood. I like to think I’m highly literate, but I’m certainly not affluent. I bought my apartment before Brooklyn became hip.

            One advantage to living in a relatively affluent, highly literate neighborhood, especially one full of brownstones, is that people are always leaving interesting books on their stoops. I like the randomness and serendipity it adds to my reading life. Stoop finds have introduced me to such wonderful contemporary novelists as Julie Otsuka, Ottessa Moshfegh, and the Finnish comic crime writer Antti Tuomainen. I’ve also caught up on classics like Erskine Caldwell’s Tobacco Road, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Zola’s Thérèse Raquin, as well as several sixties suspense thrillers by Charlotte Armstrong, a new name to me.

            A few months ago I was walking on Montgomery Place, a block I briefly lived on before buying my current apartment. On a brownstone stoop I saw several paperbacks. There was a Cormac McCarthy novel—no thanks, not my bag; All The King’s Men, a great book I’ve already read twice; and a few Harlequin-style romances. I figured this stoop was a bust, but then I noticed a copy of my 2016 collection Autobiography Without Words.

            The title of my book is a metaphor, of course, but when I opened the copy on the stoop it was literally without words. The cover was the same, with a photo of me as an adolescent clowning around with my friends, but the pages inside were blank. Well, not all of them.

            After about 20 pages there was handwriting in cursive. It took me a while to get used to the handwriting, but when I was finally able to read the text I saw that it was a bunch of short stories. I read a few and thought they were quite good. Nothing like my writing, mind you, but excellent nonetheless. Truth be told, I thought these stories were better than my own. They were funnier when they were supposed to be funny, and more heartbreaking when they were meant to be heartbreaking. I gleaned that the writer was a man, more or less of my generation. Many of the stories were about childhood, just like mine, but if I thought I had a miserable childhood, it was nothing compared to this guy’s. He made Gorky’s childhood seem like a walk in the park.

            I was baffled. What could have happened?

            I figured there must have been a misprint; somehow blank pages were bound in the cover for my book and apparently sold to an unsuspecting reader. Since few bookstores will deign to carry my books these days, most sales are online, so the potential reader couldn’t have discovered the problem until the book arrived in the mail.

            But why didn’t this person return the book for a refund? Did he actually take the title literally?

            And what then inspired him to start writing stories on the pages? Don’t get me wrong, I think of writing as a form of collaboration with the reader, and I was glad to see this reader actively engaging in that collaboration. I just needed to make my peace with the unexpected situation.

            Who was this reader, this writer? Did he live in this brownstone? Should I ring the buzzers and try to find him?

            But even if I did find him, what would I say? It might be awkward, no?

            I decided to move on. I took the book home and read the rest in one sitting.

            I remained baffled, but I decided to put it out of my mind.

            Shortly thereafter, I started getting emails from literary magazines. It seemed that whoever had written these stories had sent them out for publication under my name. There were a few rejections, but most were acceptances, and from more high-profile journals than usually publish my work. Should I inform them that there was a misunderstanding? But why look a gift horse in the mouth? So I let them go to publication. After decades of trying, my name finally appeared in Granta, but the biggest coup was surely The New Yorker. Friends and acquaintances congratulated me on the new turn my work had taken. But my newfound modicum of fame didn’t last very long. After five or six publications, the counterfeit Peter Cherches stories dried up.

            Still, maybe I could use this turn of events to my advantage. Maybe some of those journals that had never previously given me the time of day would start publishing my real stories. So I started sending my own work to these top-tier publications.

            I got personalized rejections from all of them. Most took the same tack. They thanked me for my continued interest in their publication, but wondered why I had changed my style so drastically from the work they enjoyed so much.

            Well, at least I had my fifteen minutes of minor literary fame, I consoled myself.

            Then I bought a blank, unlined notebook, wrapped it in the cover of my subsequent book, Whistler’s Mother’s Son, and left it on that stoop on Montgomery Place.

Branded: Black as Means of Commodity

by Jacques Fleury

[Excerpt from  Chain Letter To America: The One Thing You Can Do To End Racism, A Collection of Essays, Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Multiculturalism]

Modern day black commodity, a derivative market of slavery…
Black body;
Black culture;
Black branding;
Fetish objects of capitalism?!
Devalued laborers as fraught consumers,
Filling the coffers of their oppressors.
In history’s vault…as Cedric Robinson wrote in Black Marxism:
“To be black was to have
No civilization
No culture
No religion
No place
No humanity
Worthy of consideration.”
In the cacophony of this capitalist country, black men were detained in their disparate
But imbricated roles, Like a run of toppled dominoes…casted as commodified bodies,
Disparaged workers and thronging consumers looking to escape their shame,
By wearing labels bearing someone else’s name…today that is their game;
Yet still they use their style and swagger
In protest and in search of a new maneuver, as they watch the usurpation of their culture
Scattered along the margins of the society which excludes them;
Their humanity and masculinity secondary to their race in a capitalist society
Whose primary ideology is the working male body; but black men’s souls become darkest at the
Crossroads of patriarchal privilege and racial repudiation;
That is to say…a real man must work no matter what!
But that work is hard to come by, especially when that man is black!
But as commodity they can “be like Mike” like professional athletes like Michael Jordan;
That is if they’re willing to see their remarkable ability commercialized…
Successful blacks used as trope to sedate and tantalize, elevate and emphasize,
The promise of success for those blacks who are marginalized…
But history manifested in our memory has taught us that tropes are in fact
Like the black characters in a horror movie…they are usually the first to get the axe!
Simply put black liberation is our collective investment,
But as capitalist commodity it compels our collective divestment!
Blacks need not succumb to being branded as “worthy”
By capitalist elites who place no “worth” on their humanity.

Jacques Fleury is a Boston Globe featured Haitian-American Poet, Educator, Author of four books and literary arts student at Harvard University online. His latest publication “You Are Enough: The Journey to Accepting Your Authentic Self”  & other titles are available at all Boston Public Libraries, the University of Massachusetts Healey Library, University of  Wyoming, Askews and Holts Library Services in the United Kingdom, The Harvard Book Store, The Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Amazon etc… 

He has been published in prestigious  publications such as Muddy River Poetry Review, the Cornell University Press anthology Class Lives: Stories from Our Economic Divide, Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene among others…Visit him at:  http://www.authorsden.com/jacquesfleury.

THEN WHEN DEATH LAUGHED AT US

Under the cold, our fingers shrink like lips before the astringency

while we are biting into fresh quinces.

We push our palms into the deep openings of the coats

 – everyone in their warm pocket fireplaces,

earlobes and nose tips are witnessing the sharpness of the wind,

saying; Hurry home,

so we don’t stand here,

 it’s always cooler by the water!

 Don’t come back to hug me,

I’ll see you another day.

Now, hurry and get up there,

it’s cold by the water!

Azemina Krehić was born on October 14, 1992 in Metković, Republic of Croatia. Winner of several international awards for poetry, including: Award of university professors in Trieste, 2019.,„Mak Dizdar“ award, 2020. Award of the Publishing Foundation of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2021. „Fra Martin Nedić“ Award, 2022. She is represented in several international anthologies of poetry.