PART 1 : Sura NUH by Bassam Jarrar
PART 2 : The Secret Code of Sura Nuh By Fakir60
PART ONE
SURAT NOAH
By Bassam Jarrar
Of Nuh (Noah), peace be upon him, Allah (SWT) says in Sura 29
(‘Al-Ankaboot’):
فلبث فيهم ألف سنة إلا خمسين عاما - “He tarried among them a
thousand years (سنه)
less fifty years (عاما).”
If the point of this holy aya is to say that Nuh (pbuh) stayed with his
people for 950 سنة
wouldn’t the meaning be fully understood if the aya simply ended with
the word خمسين? Why did He use إلا خمسين عاما in one moment and ألف سنه in the next? Doesn’t this indicate that the concept of السنة differs from that of العام? If we refer to the Holy Qur’an, we find that there are verses that
clearly shows the word عام being applied to the lunar year, such as in Sura 9: فلا يقربوا المسجد الحرام بعد عامهم هذا - “So let them (the idolaters) not after this year of theirs approach
the sacred mosque.” (Surat At-Tauba, 9:28) It is known that this aya
talks about pilgrimage, which is connected with the lunar year. The same
distinction is made in the aya:
إنما النسيء زيادة في الكفر يضل به الذين كفروا يحلونه عاما و يحرمونه عاما - “Verily the transposing of a
prohibited month is an addition to unbelief: The Unbelievers are led to wrong
thereby: for they make it lawful one year, and forbidden another year.” (9:37). It is known that this aya
talks about the Idolaters’ tampering with the order of the Sacred Months, which
are months of the lunar year.
If we look for the opposite notation we find
that there is no word سنة in
the Qur’an clearly indicating the lunar year, just as there is no word عام in the Qur’an clearly indicating the solar year, though this does not
necessarily mean that the concept of سنة does not include the concept of lunar year. It is noticeable that when
the Holy Qur’an intends maximization, it uses the word سنة, such as in the aya: و لبثت فينا من عمرك سنين - “And didst thou not stay in our midst many years of thy life?”
(26:18) Also in the aya: إن يوما عند ربك كألف سنة مما تعدون - “A day in the sight of thy Lord is like a thousand years of your
reckoning.”(22:47) In the aya under discussion the 1000 سنة has come to suggest the length of the period Noah preached. It is known
that the solar year is longer than the lunar year so the 50 عاماis used to minimize the thing expected. In any case we cannot reverse
the concept by making سنة suggest the lunar year and عام to suggest the solar year. Since this aya mentions both سنة and عام, it
is likely that السنة is solar and العام is lunar.
Astronomers classify the solar year into star
year (365.25636 days) and tropic year (365.2422 days). If we take the averages
of the star and tropic years, the number of days in 1000 سنةis 365249 days. Astronomers also divide the lunar year into star year
(327.85992 days) and tropic year (354.36707 days). If we take the averages of
the star year and the tropic year, the number of days in 50 عامis 17056 days. Now we can do the following subtraction: 365249 –17056=
348193 days. This is equal to 953.3 tropic years and 953.28 star years. Thereby
it becomes clear to us that Noah stayed 953 سنة not 950 سنة as might be understood from the first glance. Is there numerical
evidence for this conclusion we have come to?
A.
Sura 71 in the Holy Qur’an is Surat Noah. What is the relation of this Sura to
how long he stayed and to the conclusion we have reached above? The reader will
be amazed when he does a letter count of Sura 71.The number of letters is 953
letters, which is the length of Noah’s stay by astronomical calculation.
B.
The letter occurrences in Sura 71 are as follows:
|
Letter |
ا+ء |
ب |
ث |
ج |
ح |
خ |
|
Frequency |
192 |
27 |
6 |
19 |
3 |
10 |
|
Letter |
د |
ذ |
ر |
ز |
س |
ش |
|
Frequency |
25 |
10 |
60 |
4 |
20 |
2 |
|
Letter |
ص |
ض |
ط |
ظ |
ع |
غ |
|
Frequency |
4 |
6 |
5 |
2 |
25 |
8 |
|
Letter |
ف |
ق |
ك |
ل |
م |
ن |
|
Frequency |
18 |
21 |
32 |
106 |
77 |
60 |
|
Letter |
ه |
و |
ي |
Total: |
|
|
|
Frequency |
34 |
88 |
55 |
953 |
|
|
When
we check the letter frequency of Surat Noah, we find the letter حrepeated 3 times only. It
could not have been possible for any of the other letters to be repeated 3
times. What is noticeable is that the number 3 is the difference between 953
and 950, the period Noah stayed preaching to his people, as we calculated
astronomically above, and as understood from the Qur’an at first glance,
respectively. The matter is even more striking when we realize that the letter حoccurs only in the words نوحا, نوح and نوح. Isn’t it amazing that Surat Noah does not have the letter حexcept in the word نوح! Is the aim to draw attention to the difference between the length of
his stay from the first-impression and the real length of his stay? Or are
there other secrets related to the world of astronomy and other worlds?!
