Chapter 2 Introduction for book
The title of this book is numerically encoded.
Imagine you live in the old times where no computer or printing technology yet exist and books are written by hand. You are writing a very important book for the goodness of humanity on earth. Fans of evil also looks for ways to distort this good message as they are not fan of humanity. Over it is nineteen. You also want to make sure that your book remains intact and not even a single letter of it is changed by the publishers in the future copies of your book, even when you are no longer living. How can you succeed that? Not to mention, at old times, communication is very limited and prone to distortions.
By the way, have you already realized the encoding of the title of this book and got its message by now? If not, I will explain it later or you can give it one more try! Let’s get back to the subject for now with a more relevant technical example in the next section.
2.1 One technical example
This problem is similar to error control coding (ECC) in telecommunications of science. Basically, when signals are sent at the transmitter side via wires or air or in any other medium, they are naturally distorted by noise from various sources. This causes the transmitted signal to be received as distorted at the receiver side. Consequently, a wrong message is received than original transmitted one. ECC is a telecommunications field that particularly aims to deal this specific problem. As an example, a very simple algorithm of an ECC is the parity-check codes, which is still in use in some communication protocols. As an example of its implementation, let’s say we want to send two digit binary numbers 1 and 0 from the transmitter. So, the message to be sent is “10”. This is not decimal ten but binary one and zero in two binary digits. If we send this message as is and if one of the binary digits (bits) are distorted and thus changes during the transmission then at the receiver side we might obtain an incorrect message such as “11” instead of the original message”10”. Without asking if the message is correct or not to the transmitter side, we have no way of knowing if the message is correctly received or not. Because we cannot ask to the transmitter for this as it would make communicating remotely meaningless. If we had the ability to ask the correct message directly, then why would one send the message from a distance at the first place. ECC science provides solutions for this problem. This time, let’s us an algorithm of ECC and encode the exemplary message “10” with a simple even parity-check algorithm. Instead of sending the original two bits message “10”, we encode it as “101” by concatenating one more redundant digit to the end of the message. This makes the sum of all the digits of the message as two which is an even number or, in other words, it is now multiple 2. The last concatenated bit (binary digit) is the parity bit we added for detecting the error if it occurs. So, at the receiver side, if we already know the coding system such that the original message was always encoded by even-parity check algorithm, then we have the ability to understand if the message is distorted or not at some level at the receiver side without asking to the transmitter. As an example error event, let’s say the message was again distorted by one bit and we received it as “111” instead of the original transmitted and encoded message “101”. The receiver checks the sum of the digits, because there is an ECC system in the communication now. The sum is 3 and this is not an even message like it must have always been so by the coding rule of the communication system. Therefore, based on the system of the encoded communication, the receiver detects that the message contains error and do not trust this message and discards it in this simple case. ECC is a large field and there are much more complex algorithms that are also able to correct the errors in the message at some level.
It is also worth emphasizing that in the simple ECC example, we observed an algorithm that defines the set of rules and we also observed concatenation operation as part the algorithm. A communication with such a design is generally referred as a communication system.
Interesting enough, I have my PhD in ECC and even had developed and published my own ECC algorithms in the telecommunications field (Altay and et.al. 2006a), (Altay and et.al. 2006b), (Altay 2008). Therefore, when I realized about the earlier 19 based coding system claims in the text of Quran, my first impression was that, all-knowing God might have encoded the text of Quran similar to ECC to assure us that the message is always intact and not changed at all. This is particularly important in our current time in which materialism and advance science are flourished and people of knowledge always wants to see evidences to be convinced on any topic. If there is a coding system in the text of Quran that can be practically tested, then this would be an important scientific evidence of the message of God for the minds of this time who got used to approve only testable and reproducible facts.
2.2 Decoding the encoding
After the above long technical example of coding, it is time to explain the coding in the title of this book for the readers who could not find out it yet. The number of letters of the title “Reproducible Miracle” is 19. I had also given a hint on this by writing the number 19 in a short sentence above as “Over it is nineteen” out of context. The number of letters in any title would normally be a random number. However, I also mentioned the key number for my encoding within the text in a unique and bizarre way. If the number of letters in the title is equal to the number stated in the book then this is very unlikely to occur by chance but most likely to be designed that way by the author. As the author of this book, I can assure you that I designed the title of my book deliberately! If there are many other similar encodings in the book. then you can easily come to the conclusion that, these are design patterns and not random coincidences.
In fact, if you are careful enough, you might have realized the second coding in the title of this sub-section! Since you learned the approach from the coding in the main title, I will leave the other one to you and will not explain it here again!
One thing to note from these two encodings by 19 in this small text portion of the book should tell you that these two events can almost only be done by design but not with a mere coincidence. As the author of this book, I tell you that both of the titles were different than the current forms. They were longer and more descriptive. However, I wanted to demonstrate codings in a text in real time while you are reading about it as examples. As a result, the titles ended up in different forms but with the identical meanings to their longer basic versions.
Also, I want to share my personal feelings about the main title of this book. It was about two times more of the current title. Then, I wanted to match it exactly to 19 by adjusting the number of letters in it and tried a very short one. At my first attempt, I tried the current title “Reproducible Miracle” and it just matched to 19. I was quite surprised and again personally thought that this particular title is also not a mere coincidence and it was meant to be so. My own impression led me to the conclusion that the title should be as is and it was probably beyond my personal preference. God knows best and this is just my gut feeling on it. I will talk about the importance of its meaning later in more detail while discussing about the meaning of a miracle in general in the end.
2.4 Summary
In this book, I will provide reproducible evidences of some of the important 19 based codings in the text of Quran, which I hypothesized, tested, discovered and witnessed as a general 19 based system of the full text of Quran. I will also provide the rules of the evidence codes and present 19 based system, or in other words, 19 System over the text of Quran based on my observation and judgment. I provided all the programming scripts along with each evidence in order to make them testable to eradicate doubts on the historical and universal truths about the codes to make sure they can be easily reproducible. For this, I will use R programming language (www.r-project.org) to provide reproducible tests. I had started this study with the intention to test some of the existing claims about the 19 based codings on the text of Quran around last Ramadan month of Muslims (or early 2019). Then, I also tried some of my own hypothesis, of which some of them have been validated. Then, I hypothesized more codes and validated more and ended up with this book. Since the tests I perform in this book based on open source software rather than a user interface based application or manually counting the numbers, anyone with a tiny level of programming experience can analyze my R codes and run them by simply copy paste operations in their computers and reproduce and witness the results that I will present in this book. Anyone who analyses the codes I will share in this book and run and test the results might attain to the level of knowledge, which is knowing the truth by heart. Otherwise, even if the existing acclaimed cases on 19 based codings within Quran are correct, minds and hearts are always in doubt as they are not easily testable by readers as it is almost not practical for most. For the ones with negative prejudices, this situation causes ignoring and not witnessing to the truth. It also lefts the Muslims who want to test before believing it with a burden of testing the claims manually, which is almost impractical for 99% of them. End result of this situation is a big barrier between a universal truth and humanity. I mainly aim to demonstrate reproducible tests on the 19 based codings of the text of Quran and provide the software material so that the ones who wish to try themselves can easily perform and witness the tests and attain to the knowledge of the truth by heart without any doubt. I also calculate the probability of observing the presented evidences by chance alone to make sure we have a rational conclusion over the witnessed 19 System in the end.
2.5 How to read and asses this book. God knows best, let be cautious
After you finish this introduction chapter, I suggest you directly go to the chapter where main system evidence presented, which are Chapter 4 and Chapter 5. You should spend your energy and motivation more efficiently to witness the 19 System presented in this book as the presented system has many evidence codes and it might be mentally tiring to finish all. Therefore, in those two chapter you will start witnessing the 19 System code evidences initially. After finishing the two chapters, then you can complete the rest of the chapters in order or as you wish. I wanted to give this guidance as this book has too many technical details and also many additional codes presented as additional information for future reference. I tried to write this book in an academic book format and thus the order of chapters as is. For example the next chapter has information about the general rules, R functions and preparing the Quran text data for analysis. It has to be there as we will use their result in the following chapters of evidences.
Rules are more important than the codes presented and they were harder to define based on my observations and also what universally make most sense. Without a defined rules of a claimed system, no one can claim any such system. Because without the rules, we cannot know the boundaries of the claimed system and thus we cannot know the possible number of code trials within those boundaries. We can only measure the probability of a claimed system if meaningful rules are defined for the claimed system. In this book this is what I tried to fulfill and it was the hardest part of all my research. As far as I know this is the only book, where such 19 System claim has all the general and meaningful rules are defined. As a scientist, who wrote many peer reviewed journal publications, I tried my best to fulfill this aspect as best as possible. I first published book was in 2019 and improved it after a few years along with the rules I had defined initially. In my last major upgrade in November 20, 2023, I tried my best to generalize the rules as much as possible as well along with my new code discoveries until now. On the other hand, it quite a difficult task and I might not have performed a perfect work and there might still be some room to improve upon them. So, feel free to contemplate codes along with the entailing codes I presented and see if you see any better rule among the evidence codes I presented. You might even discover new codes that I might not have discovered yet, which might perfectionate the current rules. So, in short, I do not claim that I discovered the full available system but I claim that the 19 System I discovered over the text of Quran is miraculous and suggest that there is an intact coding system over the text of Quran. It consequently suggest that the text of Quran is also intact. Because if the the text was distorted, we would most likely not witnessed the system I present in this book.
However, I am just an ordinary Muslim and cannot know the absolute truth. Only God knows best and only he knows whether all or some or none of the codes that I discovered and presented in this book were in fact designed by God or all we observe is just the result of an extremely small random chance. As a scientist, who has PhD in Error Control Coding (or Message coding), I can only search for available codes of a potential system and try my best to define its rules if what I observe is a rule based system and then using the rules I can get the number of trials and successes and failures and then I can measure the probability of what I observe. The probability of the overall system is extremely small as you can see in my book. The rules are also meaningful and quite general. Therefore, my expert level educated conclusion is that there is a miraculous 19 System design over the text of Quran and it indicates that the text of Quran is intact as we Muslims expected. Nonetheless, it is a big sin to claim anything incorrect on behalf of God. I fear from God and make it clear that all my claims are just my best conclusion over what I observe. Only God know best. My conclusion might be correct or false. The 19 System I discovered and presented might be fully or partially be correct or even might be the result of mere coincidence as there is still that measured extremely small probability of observing them by chance alone. I emphasize this point again and again to make sure even a lay person or a young people do not have the impression that I claim something as if absolute truth. Readers should read this book like an academic technical book. This book presents the 19 based codes that suggest a rule based 19 System, which together look miraculous from my point of view. I presented the ones I considered them as part of the overall 19 System as “evidence” and some other interesting codes that I do not consider in the 19 System only as “facts”. I might be fully or partially correct or even fully wrong in my conclusions. So, readers should make their own judgement and feel free to critically read it and discuss with others before having their own conclusion. However, I also suggest readers to be fair in their critical reading. If your mind and heart concludes like me that there is 19 based miraculous design over the full text of Quran, then you should accept the conclusion of your mind and heart but not be arrogant and deny it despite your self conclusion. Also, if you consider and accept them as miraculous design like me, you should still be humble and cautious while presenting it to other people and let them also freely and critically judge and conclude by themselves.
In any part of my book or in my social media or video shares, If I by mistake said anything that contradicts with what I described in this chapter, please ignore it and assume it was a mistake on my side, which I already corrected all of them in this chapter, once and for all. So, feel free to also inform me if you observe any such wrongdoing form my publications so that I can have chance to correct if I deem essential.
So, in short God knows best and all of my claims are just my conclusions and might not represent the absolute truth. I fear from Allah for saying anything wrong about him as it would be a big sin warned in Quran. However, I need to write and share what I discovered and conclude that there is a 19 based miraculous system exist in the text of Quran. I seek refuge to God and ask for forgiveness if I make a mistake or say anything on his behalf by mistake while writing or presenting this book. I disclose here again that all my claims are just my conclusions based on my observations and not necessarily fully correct. Read this book just as an academic study on the observations over the text of Quran and feel free to do your own conclusion. I already shared my conclusion in the book after what I witness. This book is not any sort of divine book but should be rather treated like an academic book where observations and conclusions of a scientist are shared.
2.6 Can we believe Quran without a 19 based system?
Of course, yes. I will talk about this later in detail during the discussions chapters in the end of this book. Because, it is a long discussion and not the main point of this book and I do not want readers to be distracted by this argument. Having said that, most of the Muslims took a position against 19 system claims on Quran and have negative prejudice on this topic as the authors of the first 19 system claim had manipulated Quran to make it match to their false and made up 19 system claim. I wanted to clarify this point again to clear up the potential negative prejudices of most Muslims in the content of this book. This book is not about the false and made up early 19 system claim but a new one that is based on the full text of the Arabic Quran of 6348 verse that Muslims around the world keeps reading it for centuries and is still available as is on the bookstores that all the Muslims can access. Also, I, myself, discovered all the evidences in this book except a few simple known ones. I mentioned those few already known evidences where I present in the book.
Muslims have the belief that Quran is intact and unchanged as it was revealed and completed around 1387 years ago since completed on year 632. They have already acceptable reasons to believe it. First of all, almost all 1.5 billion Muslims have the same Arabic Quran and they claim that they follow it! I will come to that later as it is another important subject to talk about but not the place to elaborate in this section. The point is if you ask any ordinary Muslim haw many Arabic text of Quran exist, you will always get answer as one. While I was writing about this book, as an ordinary Muslim I wanted to make sure about it and searched internet and saw some claims that there are some exceptions. Then, I have found out that the common text, called Hafs mushaf, used by around %97 of Muslims and %3 use a few other version of the text with tiny differences. Dr.Shehzad Salem has along research on the topic and have a book published on the topic where he concludes that only Hafs mushaf is the mutewatir one (related by masses to next generations) and was always the common one among Muslims. His research concludes that only the Hafs mushaf is the fully unchanged version and there is therefore only one fully unchanged Quran and it has been already commonly used by almost all Muslims. I agree with his conclusion and my analysis is already in the Hafs mushaf. As an ordinary Muslim, I was not even aware of such claims until I performed an intentional search on the topic. So, having an exact Arabic Quran by almost all Muslims is an important evidence. Because, if there were some changes during the history, of hundreds of years, then we would see them spread thorough out the world and we would not be able to see almost all, around %97 of Muslims still use the same exact original Arabic text among different nations and communities.
Second reason to believe that Quran is intact and managed to arrive to our time as unchanged is the system of Hafiz tradition. If you go to any Muslim country, you will see that there are thousands of people called Hafiz. Hafiz is given as the title to the people who memorizes the whole Quran in Arabic by heart. Even if they are not Arabic speakers, they are able to memorize the whole Quran and precisely recite it. Considering all the Muslim countries, there may be tens of thousands of Hafiz people exist even at our current time of technology. Historical sources mentions that this is a tradition dates back to the time of Prophet Muhammed. There have been thousands of religions on earth from old times until now but there is only one book that has been fully and precisely memorized by tens of thousands of people on earth in the current time and before. I consider this fact as the second evidence that supports the belief of Muslims that the text of Quran is intact and unchanged.
There are also some very old Quran manuscripts that are dated back to the end of seventh century and even some parchment papers of Quran radiocarbon dated back to the time of the Prophet Muhammed such as The Birmingham Quran manuscript. One can search internet and get more information on them. I will not go into much detail on this as it requires another long and expert level scientific discussion.
The fourth evidence to believe that Quran is unchanged is its content. If you read the interpretation of Quran, one can judge herself but in my personal judgement, I have to state that the content is the best proof that it is the book from God. My heart calms down as I find answers for the meaning of my life and everything around me. Once you are convinced that these meanings are the word of God then there are verses, where God promises that Quran will be protected and there is no doubt in it.
Then why a 19 based coding would be important? Well, the above points might be more convincing for ordinary Muslims who were raised as Muslims already. It might be easier for them to accept all the above points but it might not be seen sufficient for especially non-Muslim readers of Quran. Such a 19 based coding system of the text of Quran, which could not be designed by the people of that time, indicates that the text of Quran is intact and unchanged since the completion of revelation in 632 and can help convince people who have doubts about it. It also has a function to increase the belief (“iman” in Arabic) of the Muslims who already believe in Quran as there are levels of belief depends on the knowledge one has. I believe the following verse after the verse of 19 already best describes the function of a 19 System.
The translation is from quran.com of Dr.Ghali:
74:30 Over it are nineteen.
74:31 And in no way have We made the Wardens (Literally: companions) of the Fire except Angels, and in no way have We made their (right) number except as a temptation for the ones who have disbelieved, (and) that the ones to whom the Book has been brought may have certitude, and that the ones who have believed may increase in belief, and that the ones to whom the Book has been brought and the believers may not be suspicious, and that the ones in whose hearts there is sickness and the disbelievers may say, “What would Allah intend by this as a similitude?” Thus does Allah lead into error whomever He decides, and He guides whomever He decides, and in no way does anyone know the hosts of your Lord except He. And in no way is it anything except a Reminding to the mortals.