# Is seeing the number 19 everywhere a sign or a superstition?

*Does 19 recur before bad luck? Against numerology, and an invitation to Zakir Naik and Nouman Ali Khan*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/24/
- Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:17:50–2:20:30)
- Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmIrskjob4o&t=8270s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/

**Topics:** Magic, the evil eye and superstition; How to read the Quran; Debate challenges and reviews

**Question as asked:** How do you feel about someone saying the number 19 reoccurs in their life before something bad happens to them, and about associating 19 with superstition?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** The guest rejects personal and anecdotal sightings of 19 as numerology and chance, distinguishing them from the Quran's structure, and invites Zakir Naik and Nouman Ali Khan to debate him.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth reads a chat question from someone who says the number 19 recurs in their life before something bad happens, and asks how the guest feels about such associations with superstition. The guest says people may hallucinate nineteens and manipulate numbers to produce them, that one in nineteen numbers is a multiple of 19 by chance, and that he is very sceptical of and rejects anecdotal or arbitrary claims; the Quran's structure, he says, is not numerology or speculation but physical. He proposes a future session with people who reject the number 19 and invites Zakir Naik and Nouman Ali Khan to debate anyone who believes in the Quran alone, saying such slick speakers mislead people by promoting hadith and sunnah and should face him rather than talk behind the Quran-alone movement. Mufti says that would be amazing.

## Sources and names cited

- Edip Yuksel
- Zakir Naik
- Nouman Ali Khan

## Transcript (machine tier, 2:17:50–2:20:30)

[2:17:20] I understand as the lost and because the Quran is also be on Elena's and the Quran talks about Muhammad's time Muhammad's own man to be related to the end of the world and therefore it must until the end of the world and there I am very high right now not a problem no no it is a subject I would love to talk but not now because sure I would like to discuss about the end of the world because the Quran gives the time

[2:17:56] of end of the world - it is unlike it is believed it is absolutely the Quran provides a time for the end of the world - sure it was a question here by an ayah who had said number 19 reoccurs in my life before something bad happens to me I mean [ __ ] oh brother or how do you feel about questions or thoughts like this about number 19 associated with maybe superstition then of course people may have superstition but what is in the Quran people I think they can hallucinate 19th it doesn't mean there

[2:18:36] is 19 - and I see some people manipulating numbers putting together next to each other coming up with 19 no and what I will out of 1 out of 19 numbers will be multiple of 19 by random that you need to be take into consideration that one and also if you are manipulating numbers you have a bunch of numbers you add them together this way that way and in many different ways of course you will get many and therefore I am very skeptical about many people coming up with 19 I reject them and I see it is anecdotal or it is

[2:19:16] arbitrary or it has it is mathematical something it is mathematical property it has nothing to do with the deliberate thing therefore but the Quran is is not like a movie it's not numerology it's not speculation it is physical if one day we come together I would like to bring someone I invite people who reject number 19 who think they studied it but think they know that it is speculation we do or we make it up absolutely I am ready to discuss against them meanwhile I want to invite zakir

[2:19:54] naik or newman what is Newman's name when 911 yeah Newman Ali Khan was I they because these people are misleading the people because they talk very well they are very slick unfortunately they promote hadees and sunnah all these lies they keep them in darkness and in ignorance and therefore I challenge them let's discuss if you would like to discuss again is someone who believes in Quran alone as a source

[2:20:29] of Islam or system God's system come we will discuss and I will will have chance to face-to-face but would be amazing if they do take you up on that I would love to you they should they should because they talk behind us they talk they they promote the idea or have assumed that they say those who follows runnable they are misguided well I am one of those the leaders of this movement we started with Prophet Mohammed and therefore come

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment ZmIrskjob4o/s/24. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/24/

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