Verses total in the Quran

Verses total in the Quran  

It is never an easy task to provide the theoretical means to evaluate the total number of verses in the Quran  

because how words of the Quran are distributed among verses can never be known or predicted  

mathematically. In fact, some verses are two letters words and some between one-half and one full-page.  

However, this type of analysis could be practically possible if Almighty God has embedded some  

mathematical structure that lends itself to simplify the computation.  

For the calculation of the total number of verses in the Quran and in accordance with how the Quran is  

mathematically structured, we need to derive another important mathematical properties of the Abjad  

numerals, whereby the current study has noticed that such value together with the Quran Constant (QC) will  

numerically simplify the mathematical calculation of the ratio of total number of verses divided by the total  

number of letters through a hierarchical mathematical structure corresponds with the chain of verse-word-  

letter system. This numerical value (q ) is defined as  

V

28  

q   

AV(n),  

V

(10)  



n 1  

where AV(n) is the Abjad value of the n alphabet (Table 1). Therefore  

th  

28  

q   

 AV(n)  (1 2  3...9 10  20 ... 90 100  200 ...900 1000)  5995.  

(11)  

V

n 1  

Again, this numerical value (qV =5995) is constant whether the text under investigation is of divine nature  

or human-authored nature. If we add up the four digits (5+9+9+5), it surprisingly gives 28. The hierarchical  

mathematical structure of the chain of verse-word-letter system plays an important role in determining the  

total number of verses in the Quran. In fact, we need to develop two relationships to compute the total  

number of verses through the chain of verse-word-letter system because verses are composed of words and  

words are composed of letters. The interrelation between the two values (QC and qV ) can be utilized in  

accordance with how Almighty God structures the relationships between them to evaluate the total number  

of verses of the Quran. In the current theoretical study, we need to realize that the heart of all calculations is  

the Quran Constant. Indeed, in accordance with how Almighty God embeds the mathematical structure in  

the Quran’s composition, the mathematical relationships between verses, words and letters can be grouped  

in two (see Figure 4):  

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1) The first relationship (r ) between qV and QC, the relationship between them is linear because each of  

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them was defined and derived based on direct proportionality with the Abjad value.  

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2) The second relationship (r ) consists of two links: the first link between qV and  , and this link is  

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exponential because A was defined and derived based on inverse proportionality with the Abjad value  

AV). The second link is between A and QC, and this link has already been investigated in the previous  

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section and it is an exponential one. Apparently, in accordance with how Almighty God embeds the  

mathematical structure in the Quran, the two relationships are interrelated with verse per letters ratio in the  

following manner:  

qVL  r  r ,  

(12)  

1

2

where qVL is the ratio between the total number of verses divided by the total number of letters. In order to  

comply with how Quran has been mathematically structured, we need to take the natural algorithm of both  

sides of equation (12), so we get  

log (q )  log (r )  log (r ).  

(13)  

e

VL  

e

1

e

2

Therefore, as discussed above (Figure 4) we substitute in equation (13) for log (r ) by log (QC/q ) and  

e

1

e

V

for log (r )(this relation consists of two links and its numerical value is equal to the multiplied values of  

e

2

both links and this complies with the way the Quran mathematically structured) (see Figure 4) by  

log ( ) log (QC) log (QC)  

e

A

e

e

*



.

log (q ) log ( )  

log (q )  

e

v

e

A

e

v

We have  

QC  

log (QC)  

e

log (q )  log ( )  



.

v

(14)  

e

VL  

e

q

log (q )  

v

e

We substitute for QC and qV in equation (14), we obtain  

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0.44911244  

log (70.44911244)  

e

log (q )  log ( )  



e

VL  

e

5995  

log (5995)  

e



-4.443790428  0.489142044.  

log (q )  3.954648384.  

(15)  

(16)  

(17)  

Thus  

e

VL  

Consequently  

qVL  0.019165406 Verse/letters.  

Therefore  

Total number of verses  325384 0.019165406  6236.116466.  

(18)  

The actual total number of verses in the Quran= 6236 (Table 2). The amazing correspondence between the  

calculated numerical value and the actual value (the actual/calculated ratio is within 99.998%) provides  

concrete evidence that the Quran is a definitive divine revelation. Indeed, the elegant relationship in  

equation (14) embedded by Almighty God, the Master Engineer, is straightforward and yet there is no  

earthly explanation of how different parameters in the Quran and the mathematical properties of Abjad  

numeral system are structured and arranged to achieve this remarkable mathematical phenomenon.  

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