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The Submitters is a specific modern religious movement—often associated with 'Quranists' or 'Quran-alone' groups—that bases its faith strictly on the Quran. They advocate for wholehearted submission to God alone and generally reject traditional Islamic Hadith and Sunnah.

 

Core Beliefs.

 

Quran Alone:

They consider the Quran to be the complete, detailed, and uncorrupted word of God, sufficient for all religious guidance without extra-canonical texts.

 

The Mathematical Code:

The movement places strong emphasis on a 'mathematical miracle' in the Quran, specifically revolving around the number 19, which was popularised by the founder.

 

Rejection of Sectarianism:

They state that the word 'Muslim' literally translates to 'Submitter', and believe that sincere submission to God exists across various backgrounds and traditional religious labels.

 

Origins and Leadership.

 

The movement originated in the late 20th century, largely defined by the teachings of the late Dr. Rashad Khalifa, who established the Masjid Tucson and the United Submitters International (USI) organisation. Khalifa claimed to be a messenger of God (specifically, the 'Messenger of the Covenant'), a stance that sets them apart from both mainstream Islam and even many other Quran-alone communities.

 

Resources And Community.

 

Because they are a decentralised, international community, they connect primarily online and through centralized publication hubs.

 

International Community of Submitters:

You can review their core philosophy and read their publications through The Submitters.

 

The Authorised Translation:

They rely heavily on Dr. Rashad Khalifa’s translation and appendices of the text, which you can explore on Submission.org.

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The Quran Code 19 theory was debunked by mathematicians and Islamic scholars who proved that its patterns rely on data manipulation, selective counting, and text alterations.

Mainstream researchers and statisticians categorise the theory as a form of Confirmation Bias and Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy, where data points are cherry-picked to fit a predetermined conclusion.

 

Textual Alteration and Verse Removal.

 

The Problem:

Khalifa found that the total number of verses in the Quran did not fit his mathematical 19-based structure.The 'Fix': To make the mathematical formula work, Khalifa declared that the final two verses of Surah 9 (9:128–129) were human fabrications and omitted them from his count.

 

The Debunk:

Removing parts of a holy book to make a pattern work invalidates the premise that the existing text is mathematically protected.

 

Selective Counting and Data Manipulation.

 

The Problem:

Critics found that Khalifa’s counts of specific Arabic letters (such as 'Qaf' or 'Nun') did not match standard, historic Quranic texts.

 

The Fix:

Khalifa adjusted how he counted letters. In some chapters, he counted specific letters but ignored them in others, or counted alternative spellings of words to reach a multiple of 19.

 

The Debunk:

When independent scholars used standardised, verified methods to recount the letters, the numbers failed to divide evenly by 19.

 

The Law of Truly Large Numbers.

 

The Problem:

Proponents of Code 19 claim that the probability of these patterns happening by chance is impossible.

 

The 'Fix':

Statisticians analyzed the Quran using other prime numbers.

 

The Debunk:

Researchers found that because the Quran is a massive dataset containing over 77,000 words, you can find similar mathematical patterns using numbers like 17, 13, or 23 if you manipulate the parameters the same way.

 

Applied Example: Word Counts.

 

Khalifa claimed that the word Allah (God) occurs exactly 2,698 times in the Quran, which is 19 × 142.

 

Independent verification using standard Arabic concordances shows:

The actual count of the exact word Allah is 2,699.To get 2,698, Khalifa had to selectively exclude specific occurrences while including others arbitrarily.

 

❌ The Theory is Proven False. (πŸ‘ next section)

 

The Quran Code 19 theory fails basic scientific peer review because it requires changing the dataset (removing verses) and changing the counting rules for different chapters to force the number 19 to appear.

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A man walks into a store and selects an item from a shelf that has a marked price of £2699. He goes to the checkout and tells the checkout girl that he only has £2698 to spend. He asks the girl if she will let him off £1. The girl says that she'll have to check with her supervisor. And the supervisor says he will have to check with the store manager. Involved with this situation from the start, what do you think should be the outcome? The profit for the store remains fixed at 25% for either sale. Should the management refuse to lower the price by £1 - and thereby forego a 25% profit on a £2698 sale while also causing a decent man to 'suffer the fate' of having to walk away without something he desires and perhaps needs - or agree, on behalf of themselves and their associates (the item manufacturer and others), to a loss of only £1?

 

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In the above scenario, 25% of 2699 is 674.75. That's just a deviance of 0.25 from 675 [(= ⳨(765, 567 etc.)]. 25% of 2698 is 674.25 - a deviance of 0.25 from 674. By taking profit=25%, am I guilty of massaging (in an unacceptably biased way) the system by choosing (only) one figure to suit my purposes here? And remember, I didn't choose 2699 and 2698 for a discussion of TQC19 in the previous section. The debunkers did.

Was anyone expecting me to choose 37% for the profit? (πŸ‘ HOME PAGE: The Number 37)

While playing Qu, I quite delierately accept all kinds of numerical deviance in order to play MY game.

And finally here, is the above an important statistic? It concerns the Islamic name of God.

 

The Way Of Greed.

 

The Way Of Greed here is the (stupid) insistence on a rule that can have you accept the loss of 25% of £2698 in order to 'save' £1 (£1 is given or £1 is withheld). This is the way of Rigidity. Rigid systems, built on rigid laws, can break under pressure - possibly resulting in negative outcomes that would not have happened otherwise. It can be the case that The Manager (the individual with ultimate responsibility for application of the Greedy rule) is the one who makes the only actual (OBOE) error possible in the given scenario.

In this section, with 674 and 675, I am using permutations of the two numbers 764 and 765. So, there is a link between the material presented above and the two networks discussed on page: THE 765 NETWORK VS. THE 764 NETWORK. The context here, associates 675 with (it's complement in this context) 764 (Greed) and 674 with 765. The contextual nature of pathematics is obvious. Network 765 can use (as a complement) 764. So, sometimes, 765 can= 764 (while it never is!) and OBOE is not an error. That's the flexibility of Blue πŸ”ΉοΈ systems with good contextual interpretation etc.

 

Greed Rule Transportation.

 

Transporting A Greedy (Greed) Rule into other situations can have far more serious consequences than a financial loss of £675.

 

Greed Rules (R) Ok?

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The 'angel' mentioned in this song can be a version of the infamous historical figure, Josef Mengele, a notorious German SS officer and physician at Auschwitz, who was given the dark moniker 'Der Weiße Engel' (The White Angel). Sully Erna (the lead singer) can be thought of as having an Ash aspect to his personality. Ash is the human protagonist in the Evil Dead movies who often calls enemies 'baby' in a suitably sarcastic way.

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In Islam, the number 19 fundamentally refers to the number of gatekeepers of Hell. It is also explicitly linked to Surah Maryam (Chapter 19) of the Quran, and has historically inspired Quran Code theories claiming mathematical divinity.

 

The Guardians of Hell.

 

The number is mentioned in the Quran (Surah Al-Muddathir 74:30):

 

'Over it are nineteen'.

 

The following verse (74:31) explains that God appointed these 19 angels as a test of faith and to strike fear into the disbelievers who mocked the seemingly random number. 

 

Surah Maryam (Chapter 19).

 

Surah 19 is named Maryam (Mary), the mother of the Prophet Isa (Jesus). It is one of the most revered chapters in the Quran, specifically highlighting the miraculous virgin birth of Jesus and the stories of other prominent prophets like Zachariah and Abraham.

 

Code 19 or The Quranic Code.

 

The number 19 forms the basis of a modern theological theory known as the 'Quran Code' or 'Miracle of 19'. [Also The Quranic Code 19 (TQC19)].

 

The Theory:

Promoted by certain scholars, it argues that the Quran is mathematically structured around the number 19 (e.g., the total number of letters in the opening Basmalah is 19).

 

Orthodox View:

While some Muslims point to this as proof of divine authorship, mainstream Islamic scholarship and Fatwas generally caution against over-focusing on numerology. They emphasise that the number is a fact of revelation, not a tool for decoding hidden universal mysteries.