A Muslim Convert Once Before

Arabic numerology — abjad (أبجد) — assigns numerical values to the Arabic letters based on an ancient Semitic ordering that predates the current Arabic alphabetical sequence.  The system is not mysticism for its own sake.  It is a framework for discerning structural correspondences within the text of the Qur’an and within the Arabic language itself — correspondences that classical scholars read as evidence of divine intentionality in the architecture of revelation.  The letter جيم ( Jim ) is the fifth letter of the Arabic alphabet.  It carries the numerical value of 3 in the abjad system.  Its equivalent in English is “J.”  These are the technical facts.  What they point toward is considerably more interesting. The Three Chapters There are exactly three chapters in the Qur’an whose names begin with the letter Jim.  The number matches the letter’s abjad value.  Whether one reads this as Divine Design or elegant coincidence depends entirely ...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Brother Naushad Omar posted, on The Sharing Group, on the 26 th September 2015: “Some lady on Facebook said that there will be a lunar eclipse on the 28 th September, and the Prophet ( s.a.w. ) said, according to Swahih al-Bukhari , that we must hasten to make two raka’at of swalah .   My response was: It is not necessary to make swalah now for an eclipse, since we are not superstitious anymore.   The Jahilliyah Arabs were superstitious because they had all kinds of weird beliefs about comets, eclipses and other heavenly aberrations.   Prophet Muhammad ( s.a.w. ) advocated swalah to wean the Arabs off this superstition.   It is totally unnecessary and weird that we make swalah now for eclipses.   Rather make swalah for the wars, poverty, corruption and mass migrations afflicting the ummah .”   Brother Terence Helikaon Nunis : That is not true.   Are you saying that for 1,400 years, we have performed a s...