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Salaat coded in Quran (summary)

This article is meant to be a more accessible version and summary of the main article which describes Salaat (Ritual Prayer) and the way it is mathematically coded in Quran, following its rhythms. The main article “Salaat in Quran” provides numerous additional proofs and tables that further detail the overall structure and its logic.

Ø  Before anything else, the most important aspect - by far - in the ritual prayer is how much sincerity of heart we have, and how much sincere submission to God almighty we display while we perform our ritual and worship to the One and Only true God.

Ø  The ritual in itself is mostly a unifying factor of the Muslim community designed to remember God and seek His guidance everyday and all along our lives. The ritual prayer is crucial in our lives because it helps us to stay away from evil and vice (29:45). It has physical benefits as we perform movements through Salaat that God designed for us to stay healthy. This ritual was initially revealed to Abraham and passed down to us generations after generations. God knew that the structure of Salaat would generally be very well preserved throughout history: This is why the role of Quran regarding Salaat is:

- (1) Mainly to confirm with simple language the most important ritual in Islam.  

- (2) Confirm the structure of Salaat mathematically in depth with the overall structure of Quran and relevant Quranic sub-systems. Salaat is coded with number 19 in Quran because the gematrical value of "Guidance" is 19, and it is what we seek when we pray God in Salaat (See 1:6).

In addition, Quran exposes and rectifies the few but crucial distortions that have occurred throughout history.

Ø  The only way for us to find the true guidance is to follow God’s guidance Alone, that is to say Quran alone. Any other path leads to idol worship, losing God’s way or both.

1. "If we don’t need hadiths to know how to perform Salaat, where is the ritual of ablutions specifically mentioned in Quran?"

Ø  Quran is fully detailed and the pure ritual of ablutions is perfectly described in the Holy Quran:

﴾5:6﴿ O you who believe, when you observe the Contact Prayers (Salat), you shall: (1) wash your faces, (2) wash your arms to the elbows, (3) wipe your heads, and (4) wash your feet to the ankles. If you were unclean due to sexual orgasm, you shall bathe. If you are ill, or traveling, or had any digestive excretion (urinary, fecal, or gas), or had (sexual) contact with the women, and you cannot find water, you shall observe the dry ablution (Tayammum) by touching clean dry soil, then rubbing your faces and hands. GOD does not wish to make the religion difficult for you; He wishes to cleanse you and to perfect His blessing upon you, that you may be appreciative.

Ø  Even the ritual of dry ablutions is perfectly described in the verse. Hadiths added a few more steps to the ritual of ablutions and it is a corruption of the pure Quranic ritual.

2. "What do we say before we start the prayer?"

2.1 The call for prayer is confirmed in Quran in two instances:

﴾5:58﴿ When you call to the Contact Prayers (Salat), they mock and ridicule it. This is because they are people who do not understand.

﴾62:9﴿ O you who believe, when the call for Salat is announced on Friday, you shall hasten to the commemoration of GOD, and drop all business. This is better for you, if you only knew.

2.2 We are asked to seek refuge in God, against satan the rejected every time Quran is about to be read:

﴾16:98﴿ When you read the Quran, you shall seek refuge in GOD from Satan the rejected.

Ø  What believers say before starting a ritual prayer or reading Quran directly reflects the command in the verse:

“I seek refuge in God against satan the rejected.” (بالله من الشيطن الرجيم اعوذ, GV 1619)

3. "What is the tone of Salaat, where do you see we can pray in a group, can we pray in our minds in usual situations, can a woman pray while she has her menstruations, can we catch up with a prayer we missed?"

﴾17:110﴿ Say, "Call Him GOD, or call Him the Most Gracious; whichever name you use, to Him belongs the best names." You shall not utter your Contact Prayers (Salat) too loudly, nor secretly; use a moderate tone.

Ø  Islam is all about peace, a moderate tone must be used at all times, and we shall not scream like some imams whose hearts are hardened sometimes do during a Friday sermon. The tone of prayer has been perverted by hadiths and sunna which make it silent at times. Quran purifies it.

Ø  Group prayer:

﴾4:102﴿ When you (O prophet) are with them, and lead the Contact Prayer (Salat) for them, let some of you stand guard; let them hold their weapons, and let them stand behind you as you prostrate. Then, let the other group that has not prayed take their turn praying with you, while the others stand guard and hold their weapons. Those who disbelieved wish to see you neglect your weapons and your equipment, in order to attack you once and for all. You commit no error, if you are hampered by rain or injury, by putting down your weapons, so long as you remain alert. GOD has prepared for the disbelievers a shameful retribution.

4:102 clarifies that it is possible to perform the same prayer more than once, as the prophet would lead sometimes several times the same prayer. For instance, if someone did not perform his prayer correctly, it is possible to do it again.

Ø  Praying in unusual situations:

﴾2:239﴿ Under unusual circumstances, you may pray while walking or riding. Once you are safe, you shall commemorate GOD as He taught you what you never knew.

At work, while driving, if someone is injured … basically any situation where we are in potentially hostile environment or if there is a problem, God does not want any hardship on us (20:2) and we can pray the same way but mentally, sitting, walking, riding, driving, lying down, sometimes it won’t even be possible to face the Sacred Masjid: It is not a problem and we simply do our best, with our hearts. What really matters is never to miss a prayer and always pray on time, one way or another.

Ø  Can a woman pray while she has her menstruations?

﴾2:222﴿ And they will ask thee about [woman's] mentruations. You shall avoid sexual intercourse with the women during menstruation; do not approach them until they are rid of it. Once they are rid of it, you may have intercourse with them in the manner designed by GOD. GOD loves the repenters, and He loves those who are clean."

Let us make it clear: Nothing in Quran forbids a woman to perform Salaat in such a situation. Such an interdiction is a pure invention found in hadiths and sunna. On the contrary, women are strongly encouraged to maintain contact with God through Salaat at all times, just like men. It is a mandatory ritual, and it is horrible to manipulate and force them to lose the “contact prayers” regularly all along the course of their lives just because of a recurring natural cycle of life and because of corruptions that crept in the islamic ritual.

Ø  "Can we catch up with a prayer we missed?"

﴾70:34﴿ They stricltly observe their contact prayers (Salat) on time.

One of the qualities of believers is that they perform consistently their ritual prayers on time. Salaat has been prescribed at specific times and if you miss a specific time of prayer it is over. No ifs, or buts. In traditionnal Islam, you see throngs of people who never pray on time and group their prayers at the end of the day. It has no Quranic basis whatsoever. This is a corruption of salaat and a waste of their time: If a prayer is missed, it is over. It is by permitting such things that people lose the ritual of Salaat and forget their appointment with God five times a day. Salaat is designed for God to remain part of our daily lives so we can remember Him at dawn, noon, afternoon, sunset and night. This is how we keep our guidance by remember Him constantly.

4. Those who argue that Quran Alone is not enough object that “If Quran is fully detailed where do you find that we have to perform 5 daily ritual prayers?”

Ø  Let us start by the beginning: What is “Salaat” and what does it mean?

Salaat derives from the root صلو (“to pray” or “establish contact”). It is a supplication to our Creator and is about submitting totally to Him and seeking His guidance. It is a profound sign that the gematrical value of Salaat (صلوة) is 131, exactly the same gematrical value as “Islam” (اسلم). We bow and prostrate to God physically and mentally in our ritual prayer. It is a ritual where we acknowledge without pride our total submission to God.

Ø  The FOUNDATION of Islam is the first commandment found in 37:35 and 47:19: “There is no other god beside God” (لا اله الا الله). It guarantees peace in the universe, because if God had allowed the creation of other deities in the universe, they would have competed with each other and it would have been chaos in the universe (21:22). Not only is “There is no other god beside God” the foundation of peace in the universe, God commands us to bear witness to His absolute Oneness in verse 3:18:

﴾3:18﴿ GOD bears witness that there is no god except He, and so do the angels and those who possess knowledge. Truthfully and equitably, He is the absolute god; there is no god but He, the Almighty, Most Wise.

Ø  The fact we are commanded to bear witness that “there is no other god beside God” reflects the meaning of the Islamic “Shahadah” (Profession of Faith, شهدة):

“I bear witness that there is no other god beside God” (اشهد ان لا اله الا الله, GV 526).

☞ What is ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE about “Salawat” (plural of “Salaat”) is that it reflects exactly the pure Islamic “Shahadah” to be recited in our ritual prayers:

Ø  The Shahadah is simply the most important aspect and climax of the ritual prayer. It literally is the end of the ritual prayer.

☞ Now let’s get to the point: where do we find we have to pray five “salawat” (ritual prayers) per day?

Ø  Quran is a mathematically structured book and, Glory to God, the answer is so straightforward:

The plural “salawat”, symbol of the Shahadah, occurs exactly FIVE times in Quran (2:157,238; 9:99; 22:40; 23:9). The addition of sura numbers yields 56, gematrical value of the word “day” (يوم). Moreover, the word "day" occurs once in the five verses system (in the middle verse: 9:99). The meaning is straightforward and clear: The “Salawat” (ritual prayers) are to be performed 5 times in one "day". The word "day" occurs 365 times in Quran, a profound sign; it obviously symbolizes a complete solar year cycle (365 x 24 hours): It is clearly why the 5 daily "salawat" are to be performed within precisely a "24 hour time frame" (= one "day").

Ø  Because “Salawat” (GV 526) reflects the foundation of Islam, the pure Shahadah we recite (GV 526) 9 times per “day” (9x526 = 4734), God indexed symbolically the FIVE verse group “salawat” (GV 27083) to the daily rhythm of the Shahadah (4734):

Ø  The sacred daily rhythm of Salaat (9 Shahadahs per day x 526 = 4734) is a profound warning as it is the gematrical value of verse 16:84:

﴾16:84﴿ The day will come when we raise from every community a witness (“Shaheed”, same root as Shahadah) then those who disbelieved will not be permitted (to speak), nor will they be excused. ﴾16:85﴿ Once those who transgressed see the retribution, it will be too late; it will not be commuted for them, nor will they be respited. ﴾16:86﴿  And when those who committed idol worship see their idols, they will say, "Our Lord, these are the idols we had set up beside You." The idols will then confront them and say, "You are liars."

Ø  The context of verse 16:84 means that people who are not satisfied with bearing witness to the absolute Oneness of God need to add names of baseless idols beside the name of God (Names like Muhammad, Jesus...Also read 39:45 and 40:12). The pure Shahadah in Quran is "I bear witness that there is no other god beside God". It is a sacrilege to mention anyone beside God, especially when you bear witness to His Oneness.  A lot more on this is yet to come.

5. Some people insist and ask: “Yes, but this may be a coincidence, and I really do not see that “Salaat” and “FIVE” connect clearly”.

Ø  Let us select all verses where the pure forms "Salaat" (GV 131) and the pure form "FIVE" occur in the entire Quran:

There are 67 pure form "Salaat" in Quran which forms a group with 6413 letters, gematrical value 434175.

Number "Five" occurs in 5 verses: 3:125. 18:22, 24:7, 24:9, 58:7. This group has 446 letters, gematrical value 30613.

Ø  Let's merge those two groups:

Ø  131 is the gematrical value of "Salaat", thus number "FIVE" and "Salaat" connect with number "131" as well as number 19, in a truly awesome way.

Ø  3548, the factor associated with number 131 is a Quranic number, and it is the gematrical value of verse 13:27:

﴾13:27﴿ Those who disbelieve would say, "If only a miracle could come down to him from his Lord (we would believe)." Say, "GOD sends astray whomever He wills, and guides to Him only those who obey."

Ø  "Salaat" (GV 131) and "FIVE" (خمسة, GV 705) connect with the miracle of 19 in a very simple way:

Ø  What a better verse to symbolize the FIVE ritual prayers we perform daily reciting exclusively sura 1. Glory to God for His guidance. Verse 1:5 is the first time in the Quran that the gematrical value of an entire verse is multiple of 19.

6. "Where do you find that we have to pray towards the sacred Mosque of Mecca five times per day"?

Ø  The expression “you shall turn your faces” (towards the Sacred Mosque of Mecca) occurs FIVE times in the Quran in three verses (2:144 and 2:149-150) which matches unmistakably the number of times we pray daily towards Mecca. Let us add the gematrical value of the three verses where the expression “turn your faces” occurs five times (GV 27092) to the gematrical value of number “FIVE” (GV 705), we get: 27092 + 705 = 27797 = 19x19x77.

The Sacred Masjid built by Abraham, according to the Holy Quran, is located in the valley of Mecca:

﴾48:24﴿ He is the One who withheld their hands of aggression against you, and withheld your hands of aggression against them in the valley of Mecca, after He had granted you victory over them. GOD is Seer of everything you do. ﴾48:25﴿ It is they who disbelieved and barred you from the Sacred Masjid, and even prevented your offerings from reaching their destination. There were believing men and women (within the enemy camp) whom you did not know, and you were about to hurt them, unknowingly. GOD thus admits into His mercy whomever He wills. If they persist, He will requite those among them who disbelieve with a painful retribution.

Ø  Praying towards the Sacred Masjid of Mecca is a symbol of unison of the human race, all united in one column, and it is where we convergence for the divinely prescribed pilgrimage.

7. In spite of the above profound proofs, people who do not believe that Quran is fully detailed insist and ask: “Yes, but If you are really right, where are Salaat times mentioned in Quran, and by the way there are only three names of Salaat mentioned, what do you make of that?”

Ø  Yes, there are only three names mentioned by name (Dawn, Middle and Night), and God proclaimed that Salaat shall be perform at specific TIMES (4:103). 

Ø  We have four “times” mentioned (Dawn + Noon + Sunset + Night) and "the middle prayer": 2:238 : Middle Prayer; 11:114: Dawn + Sunset + Night; 17:78: Noon + Sunset + Dawn;  24:58: Dawn + Night.

1. Time for Dawn Prayer: ﴾24:58﴿ ….This is to be done in three instances - before the Dawn Prayer (صلوة الفجر), at noon when you change your clothes to rest, and after the Night Prayer. ... 11:114 You shall observe the ritual prayer (واقم الصلوة) “at both ends of the daylight” (طرفى النهار = dawn + sunset), and in the early part of the night (وزلفا من اليل)...

طرفى النهار = “At both ends of the day”: tarafi (dual name = ends) al nahr (daylight). It is not said at both end of the day (24 hour period), but at both end of the “daylight” (nahr).

2. Noon: ﴾17:78﴿ You shall observe the Contact Prayer (Salat) from when the sun starts declining (from its highest point at noon) (لدلوك الشمس), until the darkening of the night...

3. Middle prayer: ﴾2:238﴿ You shall consistently observe the Contact Prayers, especially the “middle” prayer (الصلوة الوسطى) ,...

4. Sunset Prayer: ﴾11:114﴿ You shall observe the Contact Prayers (Salat) at both ends of the daylight (طرفى النهار = dawn + sunset), and during the night...

5. Night prayer: ﴾24:58﴿ ... This is to be done in three instances - before the Dawn Prayer (صلوة الفجر), at noon when you change your clothes to rest, and after the Night Prayer (صلوة العشاء)....

Ø  The crucial question is: What is the middle prayer? Since “Salawat” (plural of Salaat in Arabic) is a plural involving by nature 3 or more prayers (it is not a "dual" plural, a plural specifically for two entities), and we have 4 times of prayer mentioned (Dawn + Noon + Sunset + Night), it cannot be three, it cannot be four, because there cannot be a "Middle Prayer" with 4 prayers (we need an odd number), therefore it has to be FIVE as there is a middle in five, which has to be between Noon and Sunset (Dawn + Noon + Afternoon + Sunset + Night). Therefore, we have FIVE prayer times of ritual prayers unmistakably implied in Quran.

Ø  To those who object that because there are only three names of Salaat mentioned in Quran we should perform only three ritual prayers per day we will reply: “Do you pray a number of NAMES per day or a number of TIMES per day? Why would FIVE times of Salaat be clearly outlined in Quran if only three salawat had been prescribed by God? It simply does not make any sense.

8. "Yes, but in the weekly prayer ritual we inherited from Abraham, we pray differently on Friday and recite only 8 Shahadas instead of nine. Do you also find that in the Quran?"

Ø  Sura 1 is the only sura we recite in the ritual prayer, because Salaat is adressed to God Alone (see: 6:162), and sura 1 has the specific quality that it mentions God Alone (no other name is mentioned), and is a prayer addressed to Him alone. Reciting other parts of the Quran might involve mentioning other names than God (prophets, kings...), and even examples of blasphemies uttered by unbelievers and denounced by God in the Quran. Similarly, it doesn't make sense to recite a sura, even where God alone is mentioned (like sura 112), but where you would say while you prayer is supposed to be addressed directly to God: "Proclaim (Qul) God is One...". Why should we say "proclaim..." while we are worshipping God? The exclusive recitation of sura 1 in Salaat avoids all these problems and is designed to be the perfect - purely monetheistic - prayer devoted solely to God. Sura 1 is also where we find the key which leads to unveil the entire 7 day system of Salaat, which acknowledges the fact we only recite 8 Shahadas on Friday.

Ø  Sura 1, like we witnessed for the word "Salawat", acknowledges the basic SIX day rhythm of Salaat and is equally indexed to the basic Shahadah rhythm we recite SIX days of the week. Let us add the gematrical value of the entire sura 1 (10143), to the sacred basic SIX day rhythm of the five Salawat (9 (Daily Shahadahs) x 526 = 4734, 526 = GV "I bear witness that there is no other god beside God":)

Ø  The word “Day” holds the key in sura 1 to direct us to the full 7 day system of Salaat. The last letter of the word “Day” in sura 1 is the 54^th letter of sura 1 and has a gematrical value of 56. This is the allegorical meaning that it opens a window in Quran between suras 54 and 56. A lot more is said on this in the main article on Salaat: Suras 54, 55, 56 are the EPICENTER of the Salaat system in Quran.

Ø  Suras are the main foundation to structure Quran (114 suras = 19x6), and the addition of all consecutive suras numbers from 1 to 114 is 6555 = 19x345 (345 = GV “Al Shahadah”). Suras 54, 55, 56 are very special in Quran as, like the word “Day” which "separates" symbolically sura 1 (see main article), they are the first suras in Quran not to contain the word “God”, and constitute a symbolical "separation" in Quran (54:1 symbolizes the "splitting of the moon" or "separation" as well, more details in the main article).

Ø  The sacred rhythm of Salaat is engraved in all three suras 54, 55, 56 and connects Salaat (GV 131) and the 9 Shahadas x 6 day rhythm up to sura 54. Please read the main article for a lot more details and profound proofs that would be too long to explain here. Sura 54 also symbolically connects in itself to the sacred 6 day rhythm of Shahadah: 54 + 4734 = 4788 = 19x252.

Ø  One other dramatic sign that sura numbers specifically are the foundation where we find the key which allows us to "bear witness" in the Quranic Salaat system when it comes to reciting the Shahadah "I bear witness that there is no other god beside God" (GV 526) is that in the numbering structure of verses in Quran, if you select all verses multiple of 526 (the 526^th verse, 4:33, then the 1052^rd verse, 526x2, 7:98, then the 1578^th verse, 526x3, 11:107, ... until the end of Quran), you get 11 verses (4:33, 7:98, 11:107, 17:77, 22:37, 26:226, 35:24, 40:77, 52:1, 67:21, 80:30): Adding specifically suras numbers of all 11 verses, we get 361 (19x19), which is the gematrical value of "I bear witness that" (اشهد ان, GV 361, 19x19). If you subtract 361 from 526, you get 165 (GV of "there is no other god beside God"), and it is why sura numbers 54+55+56 = 165 symbolize the "Shahadah" as "There is no ther god beside God": It is the foundation to which we say: "I bear witness".

Ø  Now the answer we are all waiting for: "You claim suras 54, 55, 56 are the epicenter of the Salaat system, a “Shahadah" based system, where is Friday acknowledged in the system if you are truthful?"

The answer is very simple and straightforward: Up to sura 54, we recite 9 "Shahadas" per day x 6 days = 54 (5+4 = 9). All practising Muslims know that we only recite 8 Shahadas on Friday:

Ø  Sura 62 is the end of the 7 day  Shahadah Salaat system for a simple reason: In the entire week, we recite 62 Shahadahs. The complete Salaat system is a weekly system. Sura 62 is the only sura where we find the expression referring to “Friday” (يوم الجمعة, which also means “Day of the Gathering”), and it is the day the Muslim community reunites for the Congregational Prayer:

﴾62:9﴿ O you who believe, when the Congregational Prayer is announced on Friday (Salat min yawmi Al-Jumu`ah), you shall hasten to the commemoration of GOD, and drop all business. This is better for you, if you only knew.

The Quran is designed to expose people every time they try to extinguish God’s light. God uses the hypocrites themselves to assert the truth. This has again happened for traditional Muslim who refused to bear witness that “la elaha ela Allah” ("There is no other god beside God"): They insist upon mentioning after the Shahadah “we bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of God”, because God alone is not enough for them.

Ø  Sura 62 is symbolically the end of the complete 7 day Shahadah system. Let us read the very next verse after sura Friday:

﴾63:1﴿ When the hypocrites come to you they say, "We bear witness that you (Muhammad) are the messenger of GOD." GOD knows that you are His messenger, and GOD bears witness that the hypocrites are liars.

Ø  This is the ONLY place in the entire Quran where it is question that one should bear witness that “Muhammad" is the messenger of God”. God strategically placed the corrupted part of the "Shahadah" right after sura 62 being the end of the true “Shahadah system”: It means we have symbolically “I bear witness there is no other god beside God” (sura 62) and in the very next verse God EXPOSES the hypocrites who are not satisfied when God ALONE is mentioned (39:45, 40:12) and proclaim “We bear witness that you (Muhammad) are the messenger of GOD" in addition to the pure Quranic Shahadah.

Ø  This is how God uses the hypocrites to prove that indeed the Shahadah system does end with sura 62, and that “La elaha ela Allah” is the ONLY proclamation to which we bear witness in the FIVE ritual prayers.

Ø  Common sense: To traditional Muslims who have a problem to stop mentioning the name of Muhammad beside God, imagine what Shahadah the prophet Muhammad used to recite during his ritual prayer. Would it make sense for him to say after reciting the pure Quranic Shahadah (37:35, 47:19) “I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of God”? Would it make sense for the prophet to bear witness to what he already knows for  a fact? Would it make sense for us to pray differently from the prophet?

Ø  Sura 62 is the end of the Shahadah system, and we know Friday is unique because we only recite 8 Shahadas (8x526 = 4208, 526 = GV "I bear witness that there is no other god beside God"). If we add the gematrical value of the entire sura 62 to the Shahadah Friday rhythm, we get:

Ø  We saw how sura 62 and the Salaat Shahadah based system amazingly exposes the hypocrites who mention the name of the prophet beside God. We also witnessed earlier that the SIX day Shahadah rhythm of Salaat (4734) is the gematrical value of verse 16:84, which warns people who mentioned idols beside God. Similarly, the Friday Shahadah rhythm (8x526 = 4208, 526 = GV "I bear witness that there is no other god beside God") not only closes allegorically the weekly Shahadah based system upon which Salaat relies, it also sends an EARTH SHATTERING WARNING to those who are tempted to mention names beside God instead of bearing witness to God ALONE:

9. People who do not believe God on faith when He says Quran is fully detailed will still insist: "Yes, but if we really can rely on Quran alone for Salaat, where to we find that we bow and prostate to God in Salaat, for instance where do you find we have prostrate 34 times per day?"

Quran says in very simple words that in Salaat we have to bow and prostrate, literally in this order:

﴾2:125﴿ We have rendered the shrine (the Ka`aba) a focal point for the people, and a safe sanctuary. You may use Abraham's shrine as a prayer house. We commissioned Abraham and Ismail: "You shall purify My house for those who visit, those who live there, and those who bow and prostrate." (also 9:112)

What we say when we bow is a reflection of the following verse:

﴾56:74﴿ You shall glorify the name of your Lord, the Great. (also 56:96, 69:52)

Believers reply in their Salaat:

“Glory be to my Lord, the Great”: سبحن ربى العظيم (GV 1383)

What we say when we prostrate is a reflection of the following verse:

﴾87:1﴿ Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High.

Believers reply in their Salaat:

“Glory be to my Lord, the Most High”: سبحن ربى الاعلى (GV 474).

Ø  In Salaat, we recite the Shahadah right after we prostrate, and the basic rhythm of prostrations is logically combined with the basic 9 Shahadahs rhythm we have clearly identified in Quran. To witness this rhythm we simply need to zoom in on the first 9 suras of Quran, which symbolize one "day" of prayer in Quran.

Like for Mary, (GV 290 = GV to bow), the symbol of prostrations in Quran is the three letter sequence Sajada (سجد, GV 67, 19^th prime number = GV to prostrate).