As we read the Quran, we do not notice the numbers of time each word get repeated all over the Quran. But some people examined and discovered that some words in the Quran get frequent in a very interesting matter.

For example, the word “day” (ywem) in Arabic, is repeated in the Quran 365 times. The digit 365 does not only represent the number of days in the calendar, but it is also the figure that shows the astronomic relationship between our world and the sun. In other words, when the earth completes its rotation around the sun, it has revolved 365 times.

Another astonishing occurrence is the plural of the word “day”, “days” (ywemain or eyyam). It is repeated in the Quran 30 times. In the solar calendar, the months have either 30 or 31 days and in the lunar calendar the months have either 29 or 30 days. So, the number 30 is the median for both calendars. In astronomical words, it takes 30 (29.53) days for the moon, the planet in the sky, to form a month.

Afterwards, if we count the number of “month” (shahar) in the Quran, we obtain 12. And it clearly represents the number of months in a year. It also represents the number of times the moon’s revolves around the earth and itself.

Then there is the word “year(s)” (sana or synin) which is mentioned 19 times. When the earth revolves around the sun 365 times, the moon revolves around the earth and itself 12 times. This constitutes of a year. But when the earth completes its rotation and arrives at the starting point, the moon is behind the schedule. It takes the earth and the moon 19 years to meet at the same starting point. This cycle of 19 years is called the Meton cycle.

If we study deeply, we observe that the number of times the all the derivatives of the word “day(s)” is mentioned 475 times. This means that the singular, plural and all the other derivatives totals up to 475. If we divide the number 475 by 19 (number of times the word “year(s)” is mentioned in the Quran) this will equal to 25. Surprisingly, 25 is the number of times the sun revolves around itself within a year! Also, the number 475 represents the number of times the sun revolve around its own axis in a Meton cycle!

All this to say that the Quran has a powerful result to our daily scientific phenomenon. And still, experts did not identify the entire secret the Quran is reserving to our world of science and astronomy.

By: Mohamad Al Khabaz.

Your attempt to blame the United States for the Darfur massacre is nothing but preposterous. In fact, were it not for the United States, the Arab nationalists and their pseudo-Arab mercenaries would have achieved their principal objective - the arabization of southern Sudan by the total annihilation of the black inhabitants (much like what they did in North Africa) - a long time ago. This cannot be said of the Europeans - who, for some reason of their own, always seem to have the evilest of wishes for blacks. It can neither be said of Russia and China - themselves engaged in similar types of activities in Siberia and Tibet - not to mention their greed for oil. Unfortunately, your view is shared by the majority of our own Muslims - black Muslims who cannot discern the difference between Arab culture and Islam; black Muslims who are so naïve that they choose Arabic language and dressing style over and above their own - always naming their children not in their language but in Arabic; black Muslims who just do not seem to see the obvious fact that Arabs do not give a damn about Islam except to use it for advancing their nationalist agenda; black Muslims who do not raise their eyebrows when avowed Arab atheists - the likes of Saddam Hussein - invoke the Koran to rally them behind Arab causes; black Muslims who would rather die defending Arabic countries than their own; black Muslims who wail for Palestinians and Iraqis but are deafeningly silent with regard to their own brethren in Darfur who, by the way, are hundred percent Muslim - even though that should have been irrelevant. Are you, dear editor of Addis Tribune, one of these misguided black Muslims? All your writings so far- your disdain for every thing Ethiopian, your vicious attacks on the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and your concern for Iraqis and Palestinians - more than the Iraqis and Palestinians themselves - have lead me to suspect so. If not, please accept my sincere apology. And please, please do not reconstruct the above statements as anti-Islam. I cannot be portrayed as anti-Islam - by any stretch of imagination. I couldn't possibly be so, coming form Wollo - that beautiful province of peaceful, friendly, and loving people - models for the entire world of peaceful coexistence between peoples of different faiths and ethnicities. I have nothing but respect for Islam. But I am a black African who is proud of my own language, culture and tradition, and who has absolutely no interest in Arabic language, culture and tradition except in so far as it helps me know who these people really are. I am just trying to get our innocent black Muslims open their eyes and see Arab nationalists' hidden agenda - the use of Islam to promote Arab geopolitical interests.