Surah Al-Ikhlas is one of the short Surahs of the Holy Quran. Its number of verses is only 4 .
Surah Al-Ikhlas surah has a wonderful balance and symmetry!
We will see how this balance is maintained in Surah Al Ikhlas—
- It has 15 Arabic words. 7 words at the beginning, 7 words at the end, a word in the middle– balance!
- Again, the number of letters in the first 7 words is 22
The number of letters in the last 7 words is 22! –Balance again!
- The middle word has three letters. The middle letter is ‘lam’ ل.
ل is the 23rd letter of the Arabic alphabet
- And there are exactly 23 letters before and after the letter ‘lam’ ل! That is, balance!
- There is another balance! At the end of the first verse, there is the word ‘Ahad’ and at the end of the last verse there is also the word ‘Ahad’.
The word ‘Ahad’ means the oneness of God.
In the middle of the surah, there are words about giving birth. Giving birth is actually a human characteristic. That means the two sides of the surah are the attributes of God and the middle is the attributes of humans.
As we saw the middle letter of Surah is ‘Lam’ (ل)which is the 23rd letter of the Arabic alphabet, and there are exactly 23 letters before and after the ‘Lam’ (ل), So, the question is why there are 23 in the middle. The importance of the number 23 is that the number of human chromosomes is 23 pairs, and the middle of the surah deals with the human characteristics of giving birth.
Really wonderful!
Subhanallah
There may be hundreds of such balances and symmetries in the Quraan. There is a need for the establishment of a permanant institute in Saudi Arabia wherein a large group of Muslim scholars (expert in the modern mathematics along with Arabic) are given the sole task of exploring such mathematical symmetries, balances and other miraculous things in the Quraan not yet discivered.
There may be hundreds of such balances and symmetries in the Quraan. There is a need for the establishment of a permanant institute in Saudi Arabia wherein a large group of Muslim scholars (expert in the modern mathematics along with Arabic) are given the sole task of exploring such mathematical symmetries, balances and other miraculous things in the Quraan not yet discovered.
Beautiful Surah