Almost every day I stumble on another individual who claims to be a messenger from God. The latest is by a person in Pakistan who claims to have discovered the greatest miracle of the Quran, which he calls “The Wrapped One Code.”
The basic claim for this miracle is the following:
- Select a unique word in the Quran
- Add all the Sura numbers this word occurs in
- Add all the verse numbers the word occurs in including repetitions
- Add the number of occurrences of this word
- Take that total number x and divide it by 2
- Then multiple that number by (x+1)
That final number will either be a multiple of 19 itself or if you add up all the digits in that number it will be a multiple of 19.
So how does this hold up? I Found a few words that only occur in the Quran one or two times and put this method to the test.
the word وَرَقِ occurs in 20:121 and 7:22 20+121+7+22+2 = 172 172/2 * 173 = 14878 14878/19 = 783.052632 (not a multiple of 19) 1+4+7+8 = 20 (not a multiple of 19)
The word يَخْدَعُونَ occurs only in 2 + 9 + 1 = 12 12/2 * 13 = 78 78/19 = 4.10526 (not a multiple of 19) 7+8 = 15 (not a multiple of 19)