In the same Surah, after the Almighty's saying: "Nay, I swear by the night as it retreats, 33 And by the dawn as it brightens, 43." The total number of letters in these two verses, which speak of the night and the day, is 24 letters. This number is the same as the number of hours in a day.

This remarkable coincidence of numbers and calculations with the moon and its movement in its orbit is supported by the Almighty's saying at the beginning of Surah Yunus: "Alif, Lam, Ra. This is a Book whose verses are perfected and then detailed from [a wisdom] of One Who is All-Wise, All-Aware. 5 [This is] that you should not worship except Allah. Indeed, I am to you from Him a warner and a bringer of good tidings." 6. This complete agreement between cosmic astronomical facts and Quranic facts is to elevate human understanding to the precise meaning of the Almighty's previous saying: "Alif, Lam, Ra. This is a Book whose verses are perfected and then detailed from [a wisdom] of One Who is All-Wise, All-Aware. 5." So, whoever is given knowledge of the truths of the visible universe he inhabits will surely be convinced that Allah Almighty created this universe only to make it a proof of His Oneness, Glory be to Him, and the truth of His revelation to His noble messengers. Allah Almighty says in Surah Sad: "Alif, Lam, Sad. [This is] a Book revealed to you, [O Muhammad] - so let there be no discomfort within your breast from it - that you may warn thereby and bring remembrance to the believers. 72." And to cut short the stubbornness of anyone who disputes the truth of the number nineteen (19), it has a strong connection with the moon in particular, as we have explained before in the secret of Allah Almighty's swearing by the moon directly after verse (13) without any of His other creations. We will pause for a moment of contemplation with a Surah named after this celestial body by which Allah Almighty swore and made the wisdom of choosing the number nineteen (19) directly related to it and its movement in its orbit, I mean Surah Al-Qamar. So we say, and with Allah Almighty is all success: 1. Surah Al-Qamar consists of 342 words, and this number is the eighteenth multiple (18) of the number nineteen (19), i.e., (19) × (18) = 342.

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