[Quran 45:3] The heavens and the earth are full of proofs for the believers.
[Quran 45:4] Also in your creation, and the creation of all the animals, there are proofs for people who are certain.
[Quran 45:5] Also, the alternation of the night and the day, and the provisions that GOD sends down from the sky to revive dead lands, and the manipulation of the winds; all these are proofs for people who understand.
The pagan Arabs who received Quran really struggled with accepting the resurrection/afterlife. They saw it as absurd that when they die, they can come back and be resurrected. God’s response is to show them signs in nature of how He revives dead lands (see above verses) through rainfall after it dies. These are supposed to be sufficient proofs for the believers.
But these are only ‘wink wink’ signs; these are just hints. These don’t really prove the resurrection to the disbelievers. Why should they believe in these wink wink signs in nature when it is clear based on their evidence and experiences that humans don’t come back after dying. Indeed, their retorts to these signs in nature of the resurrection is to say:
[Quran 44:36] “Bring back our forefathers, if you are truthful.”
The disbelievers wanted more. The wink wink signs in nature are not enough for them. They want to see a demonstration of the resurrection (“bring back our forefathers”) otherwise, the wink wink signs in nature God pointed to them in the Quran were not enough for them to believe in this thing (it’s only sufficient for the believers).
“Dead vegetation being revived after rainfall does not necessarily mean God can/will resurrect you. It can mean that God can create new humans from the Earth but not bring back the old ones—after all, our dead ancestors who died never come back. There is no evidence that humans who are long dead can come back. Why should we believe in this wink wink sign in nature if it is clear to us based on our observable evidence and experiences that humans don’t come back after dying. Am I supposed to believe in the resurrection based on a wink wink sign?”.
The answer: Yes. Yes, you do. 😡
Indeed, they are expected to believe based on these wink wink signs in nature. They can say things like “show us the retribution you promise. Revive the dead, Show us. Why aren’t you an angel, show us an angel! Show us!”. They can request more direct proofs and not these wink winks proofs—but their request is denied:
[Quran 6:8] They also said, “If only an angel could come down with him!” Had we sent an angel, the whole matter would have been terminated, and they would no longer be respited.
[Quran 6:9] Had we sent an angel, we would have sent him in the form of a man, and we would have kept them just as confused as they are confused now.
Indeed, showing them an Angel, giving them too much of a proof, nullifies the test. This life is indeed a test for us. A test of whether our hearts are open to God and would choose God based on wink wink signs, or whether our hearts are closed to God and would not choose God based on those signs, and only need a demonstration in order to be forced to believe in God. But God doesn’t want people to be forced to believe in Him. God wants people who choose God, even in the face of some uncertainty. Giving the disbelievers such massive demonstrations of showing them angels or reviving their forefathers in order to make them believe in the resurrection (when their test is to believe in the resurrection in the first place) would be like a teacher giving the answers to the exam questions. What’s the point of the exam? The exam would no longer be an examination of the student’s knowledge if the answers are just given to them. Instead the teacher could give hints as a kindness to the student.
Here is an example of this:
Suppose a student is taking a physics exam, and the answer to a question is “light”.
The teacher, wanting the student to pass, and exhibiting some kindness, may provide some hints:
- “Physics is enlightening”
- “No, I’m not gas-lighting you”
- “You need to lighten up” wink wink 😉😉
This should be a sufficient wink wink hint for the student to get the answer correct if they actually studied. A student who wouldn’t get the hint at all after all of this is likely one who hasn’t studied this well at all and is completely clueless on what the answer may be.
But, had the teacher given this student the answer of the question: “light”, the exam is really nullified; it did not test the student’s knowledge, the answer was given to them.
Likewise, just as stated in the above verses, if God gave them the ‘answers to the test’, and showed them an Angel, in its true physical form—it is basically giving them the answer and the whole matter would be terminated and they would no longer be respited. They are not to be given too much, they will only be given wink wink signs, and these signs should be sufficient proofs to the believers (just as the teachers wink wink hints above should be sufficient for those who studied well):
[Quran 30:21] Among His proofs is that He created for you spouses…In this, there are sufficient proofs for people who think.
[Quran 30:22] Among His proofs are the creation of the heavens and the earth…In these, there are signs for the knowledgeable.
[Quran 30:23] Among His proofs is your sleeping during the night or the day…In this, there are sufficient proofs for people who can hear.
[Quran 30:24] …then He sends down from the sky water to revive a land that has been dead. In these, there are sufficient proofs for people who understand.
Indeed, you are expected to believe in God and the resurrection by these wink wink signs in nature God placed and pointed out for you. God declines giving you more proof. If God just wanted everyone to believe, He’d just send a massive sign from the sky to force everyone to believe:
[Quran 26:3] You may blame yourself that they are not believers.
[Quran 26:4] If we will, we can send from the sky a sign that forces their necks to bow.
[Quran 26:5] Whenever a reminder from the Most Gracious comes to them, that is new, they turn away in aversion.
[Quran 26:6] Since they disbelieved, they have incurred the consequences of their heedlessness.
[Quran 26:7] Have they not seen the earth, and how many kinds of beautiful plants we have grown thereon?
[Quran 26:8] This should be a sufficient proof for them, but most of them are not believers.
[Quran 26:9] Most assuredly, your Lord is the Almighty, Most Merciful.
These verses are extremely powerful! They basically summarize this entire blog in just a few sentences! Here, God is consoling the messenger to stop blaming himself that the people are not believers—and then God tells him that if it was God’s will, He could have sent them such a massive sign that forces them to believe. And then, these verses point to wink wink signs in nature and says these should be sufficient proofs for them.
God again declines sending such a massive sign from the sky that makes everyone believe, instead, He points to these wink wink signs in nature and says these should be enough proofs for you if you are a believer.
It is not God’s intention that everyone believes. The whole point is to test and expose the believers—those who readily choose God based on the wink wink signs God provides for them and those who do not require to be forced in order to believe in God—the whole point is to bring out those who actually willingly choose and trust God, even in the face of some uncertainty. There is an initial leap of faith required for everyone. The disbelievers and those opposed to God, will turn away from the message and jump at the first sign of any potential refutation/ambiguity in order to disbelieve—and God gives them the excuses to disbelieve to lead them on because they have rejected God and His message for them in their hearts and thus they are not worthy of guidance.
Again, there is an initial leap of faith required for everyone. Certainty comes later—as you submit and worship God, God will give you the certainty:
[Quran 15:99] And worship your Lord, in order to attain certainty.
The signs/miracles of God must be sufficiently clear to convince those whose hearts are open to God and His message, but sufficiently vague so those whose hearts are closed to God have enough reason, and enough ambiguity to go by to choose to reject God and His message for them.
Wink Wink Signs of The Messenger:
God has similarly provided several wink wink signs that Rashad Khalifa, the messenger of the covenant, is God’’s messenger.
Some background for those who don’t know: Rashad Khalifa discovered that the Quran is at bottom mathematically structured, and he had shown an interesting miracle of the Quran further providing sufficient proofs of its divine origin: Code 19. Basically: there are mysterious initials in the Quran (eg. A.L.M in Chapter 2) that no one knew of their significance and part of what Rashad discovered is these initials come in multiples of 19 (hence ‘Code 19’). What we witness, is that this messenger who discovered Code 19 has wink wink signs of this messengership. I’m only going to focus on a few of them God Willing (if you are interested in the others, please watch this video where I go through them: https://youtu.be/hiZwre9ew5w):
- The root of his name (R-S-D) is in the Quran exactly 19 times (19 of all numbers!)
- He was a messenger for exactly 19 years before he was martyred (1971-1990)
- He was born on November 19
- He lived exactly 19,798 days—which not only is a multiple of 19, but it corresponds to the Code 19 initial count of chapter 19 (of all chapters) being 798 initials.
Let’s start with this sign: so the person who discovered Code 19, a massive mathematical miracle of the Quran and the person who claimed to be a messenger, has the root of his name in the Quran exactly 19 times? Huh. We know that God authored the Quran, so was this a coincidence? Was this done by accident? Are we really required to accept him as a messenger based on this wink wink sign?
Also, how did Rashad know he was going to be killed exactly 19 years after he said he became the messenger the covenant (in 1971)? And why are the number of days he lived exactly the same as the initial counts of chapter 19 of all chapters—doesn’t God control life and death?
[Quran 3:145] No one dies except by GOD’s leave, at a predetermined time.
Lots of wink wink signs directed at this one man, Rashad. God in verse 33:40 also just so happens to say that Muhammad was the last prophet, but God left out saying that Muhammad was the last messenger:
[Quran 33:40] Muhammad was not the father of any man among you. He was a messenger of GOD and the final prophet. GOD is fully aware of all things.
How interesting…and not only that, we said the root of Rashad’s name is in the Quran exactly 19 times, but the actual name “Rashad” is only in the Quran twice, and BOTH of them are in a very significant context. Verse 40:29 and verse 40:38 are the only 2 times the full name “Rashad” is written in the Quran. And BOTH of these verse are in a very significant context where right in the middle, God rebukes people for thinking the previous messenger was the last messenger (verse 40:34)—this is exactly the central problem people have with accepting Rashad is a messenger, they believe Muhammad was the last prophet and messenger (even in spite of verse 33:40 above!). What are the odds that the only two times “Rashad” is mentioned in the Quran is mentioned in the only context of people thinking the previous messenger was the last messenger!! Was this a coincidence? Was this an accident? Are we supposed to pretend God did this by accident and just pretend these wink wink signs that Rashad is a messenger don’t exist?
Let’s take a look at another one:
[Quran 72:26] He is the Knower of the future; He does not reveal the future to anyone.
[Quran 72:27] Only to a messenger that He chooses,* does He reveal from the past and the future, specific news.
[Quran 72:28] This is to ascertain that they have delivered their Lord’s messages. He is fully aware of what they have. He has counted the numbers of all things.
There are very interesting associations here. Notice how God is associating revealing information to messengers that He chooses, and the association with this messenger and numbers (God saying He knows and counts the numbers of what the messengers have). Interesting association given that Rashad Khalifa’s central miracle has to do with numbers and the Quran’s numerical miracle.
But there is more: The phrase “Only to a messenger He chooses” has a gematrical value in Arabic of 1919 (of all numbers! Indeed God has counted the numbers of all things including this one!).
And there is even more, when you look at the transliteration of 72:27 it ends with “Khalfihi Rasada”. Sound familiar? Sounds like Khalifa Rashad. Another wink wink hint from God!
This is actually quite similar to the physics teacher example we mentioned above. When the test question’s answer is “light” and the teacher wanted to give the student a wink wink hint, the teacher said “physics is enlightening”. Now the word “enlightening” of course doesn’t mean photons/light, but it sounds like it and provides a wink wink hint for the student. Similarly, several things occur in this context:
(1) God revealing new information to messengers
(2) An association with numbers
(3) Words that sound like “Rashad Khalifa”
(4) “Only to a messenger He chooses” has a gematrical value of 1919 (of all numbers)
…all in the same context!
(In the appendix below, I will give other mathematical signs/miracles pertaining to this sign in chapter 72, God Willing).
What are we to do with all of these signs? Are we to pretend they don’t exist? Are we to pretend that God did this by accident? That this is all just a happy coincidence? The person who claimed to be a messenger, who discovered code 19, had lots of 19 based concordances happening in his life, and the root of of his name is in the Quran exactly 19 times, and the only 2 mentions of his full first name is in between a highly significant context of God rebuking people for thinking the previous messenger was the last, and then God talks about revealing new information to a messenger He chooses and associates this concept with numbers and having the gematrical value of that phrase 1919 (of all numbers!) and even putting a wink wink sign of a word that sounds similar to the name of Rashad Khalifa—all in the same context—all of this is just an accident or coincidence??
The disbelievers refuse to accept this, saying God would not resort to giving wink wink signs in the Quran (contrary to God saying the exact opposite as we read earlier: God in fact gives wink wink signs/proofs and told us that He refuses to give complete direct proofs!). What more can you want? God gave us so much, He laid out the carpets so much for us, yet many still disbelieve. Just as those who don’t want to accept God’s message of the resurrection would say “these wink wink signs in nature of God reviving the dead lands does not necessarily mean that the dead can be brought back to life—if God wanted to prove this to us: tell Him to bring back our forefathers if you are truthful”—those who don’t want to accept God’s message that Rashad Khalifa is a messenger to be followed would say “these wink wink signs in the Quran does not necessarily mean that Rashad Khalifa is a messenger—If God wanted to prove this to us, He’d given us more direct proof/signs”. The disbelievers always ask for more as we see in the Quran. They are not satisfied with the signs of God. Indeed, as we talked about above, God’s signs are sufficient proofs for those who believe. Those who disbelieve can never believe, they are sealed and blinded from accepting God’s message:
[Quran 2:6] As for those who disbelieve, it is the same for them; whether you warn them, or not warn them, they cannot believe.
[Quran 2:7] GOD seals their minds and their hearing, and their eyes are veiled. They have incurred severe retribution.
The message Rashad came down with should also be another indication:
And worst of all, they disbelieve in spite of the message that Rashad Khalifa came down with. It’s a pure message. Worship God alone. Only call upon God in your worship practices. Seek God’s Kingship over you. Devote your whole life and religion absolutely to God alone. Follow all the Quranic commandments wholeheartedly and do not minimize God’s warnings in the Quran thinking they only apply to others in the past and not your own situation in the present—that you are not exempt.
Some have even accused Rashad of trying to mislead us. This is quite a weird direction to be misled to. Is there any precedent in the Quran of God saying people were misled into devoting their whole life to God alone and stopping even subtle forms of idol worship and obeying the commandments of the Quran strictly to the best of their knowledge and ability? Is there any precedent in the Quran of God saying people were misled into a religious system or practice where God alone is the center of your life and these people were misled into absolute devotion to God?
Can you give any example or precedent from the Quran of God saying people were misled into accepting (rather than rejecting) God alone, God’s signs, God’s absolute authority? Has God ever talked about people being misled into **increasing their faith in God, increasing their belief in God, increasing the focus of their entire lives to God alone, increasing their devotion to God alone, seeking God’s kingship over them, remembering God all the time, being very careful to avoid the subtleties of idol worship and disbelief, and ensuring they see/recognize and credit God for everything, and devote their whole life to God alone. That’s a weird thing for God to mislead people to. What kind of misleading leads people to increase their ‘eeman’ (faith), certainty in God and be completely devoted to God alone. That sounds like a place I’d like everyone to be ‘misled’ to. If only.
All the instances of people being misled in the Quran refers to them being misled into rejecting God and God’s commandments to them. If anything, we are absolutely devoted to God alone. We are taught to be very cognizant and sensitive of idol worship and recognizing how subtle it is. We are taught that everything is an expression of God’s will; to see God in everything. God alone. The message itself testifies to its truth. It is a pure message; the purest message.
One of the central teachings of Rashad—and one that Sunnis continue to struggle with: is that you cannot say Muhammad in your shahada or your contact prayers (salat). That the Quran specifically commands against this:
[Quran 72:18] The places of worship belong to GOD; do not call on anyone else beside GOD.
[Quran 72:19] When GOD’s servant* advocated Him alone, almost all of them banded together to oppose him.
The Sunnis insist on calling upon Muhammad in their Salats, and including him in their Shahada. They even have a phrase they say in the middle of their prayers: “Assalamu ‘alayka ayyuhan nabiyyu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh (O Prophet! Allah’s peace, blessings and grace be upon you!)”. Didn’t God just say in the Quran don’t call on anyone else beside God? Even if it is metaphorical or in 2nd person, even if it is God’s servant or messenger, the Quran said you cannot call upon anyone as part of your worship. But they minimize this message and disregard God’s reminder to them.
This is one of the most controversial things Rashad taught. Can you believe it? And the Quran then goes on to say when God’s servant advocating Him alone, almost all of them banded together to oppose him. Indeed, Rashad was ridiculed, opposed, and even killed by these people for his teachings.
(And a side note, as you can see above: the verse that talks about God’s servant advocating Him alone is in chapter 72—the chapter with the signs of Rashad Khalifa’s messenger-ship we mentioned above, AND it is also verse 19 😉😉).
They even deny scientific miracles of the Quran:
Worse than all of this, is that some of those I have talked to who have rejected the messenger, even Quranists, deny scientific miracles in the Quran altogether. (By scientific miracles, I mean things in the Quran that ended up supporting modern scientific discoveries–e.g. Big Bang is mentioned in 21:30, expansion of the universe mentioned in 51:47, revealed about 1400 years before we discovered these). Had they been born into an atheist family, would they believe in the Quran at all? Do they only believe because their parents raised them as Muslim and instilled in them the values of believing in God and following the religion of Islam? If they can’t even accept basic scientific miracles and hints in the Quran, would they accept the Quran if they were not born into a Muslim family? Indeed, God takes all of this into account. You being born into a Muslim family is not credit to you—it was something given to you, you didn’t earn it. You must be tested as the Quran says. And if you can’t even accept the wink wink signs of God in the Quran, God may have calculated/determined that if you had been born into an atheist family, you wouldn’t believe in the Quran at all. If you disbelieved in some of God’s miracles in the Quran even as a Muslim, what would you have done as an atheist? Indeed, God takes all of this into account—and just as we can normalize equations in statistics and Mathematics to account for variations in conditions—God also can make similar calculations/determinations and normalize what you would have done had you been put into different situations based on your actions/beliefs in your current situation. With God is the best calculations. And it seems to me, that those who accept Islam because their parents were raised into it yet rejected many of the Quran’s signs/miracles/proofs may be considered disbelievers completely by God—indeed, this reflects a deeper problem…a deeper opposition.
You accepting something just because you were born into it is not credit to you. It is something you were given, not something you earned. You need to be tested, and just following along with your parents teachings and just following along the values of worshiping God they gave you while rejecting some of the miracles of the Quran is not a good sign of your hearts openness to God. Only God knows best. I make no claims about this as I cannot make this determination–it is only up to God.
[Quran 72:17] We will surely test them all. As for him who disregards the message of his Lord, He will direct him to ever increasing retribution.
[Quran 7:175] Recite for them the news of one who was given our proofs, but chose to disregard them. Consequently, the devil pursued him, until he became a strayer.
[Appendix]:
Numerical features of Chapter 72:
72:1-28 The messenger here is named, mathematically, as “Rashad Khalifa,” to whom God revealed the end of the world (Appendix 25). The number of verses from 1:1 to 72:27, where the messenger is mentioned, is 5472, 19x72x4. The word “Rashada” occurs 4 times in Sura 72. The value of “Rashada” is 504, and 504+28 (verses of Sura 72) is 532, 19×28. The value of “Rashad Khalifa” (1230)+72+28=1330 =19×70. The digits of Sura 72 and its number of verses (28) add up to 7+2+2+8=19. Also, the crucial expression, “only to a messenger that He chooses” has a value of 1919, 19×101.
The letters of Rashada in that verse also occur 114 times in that chapter (114 = number of chapters in the Quran)
The middle verse of that chapter: verse 14 ends with “Rashada”
If you split the chapter in two halves, the letters of Rashada occurs 57 times in the first half (verse 1-14) and 57 in the next half (15-28).
There are 4 usages of the root “Rashada” in chapter 72. 3 of them are the same word. And between each of the 3 words, the number of letters of “Rashada” that show up in between those 3 words are all a multiple of 19.
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