Fariq Naik – Using the Numerical Values of Letters instead of Letters

I am Mateen from Afghanistan.

Greetings to you. Is it permissible to write

786 instead of Bismillah

or instead of Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem? In the

Arabic language,

the Arabic alphabets and letters are called as

And

certain people

way after our beloved prophet Muhammad, peace be

upon him, and the Sahaba,

they came up with certain numerical values for

these Arabic letters and alphabets.

So for example, for alif, the numerical value

is 1. For ba, the numerical value is

2. For jim, it is 3. For sin,

it is a particular numerical value and so

on and so forth.

But

this was

introduced by certain people, not by authentic scholars,

not by the classical scholars,

not by scholars who understand the religion of

Islam, but by certain people

who just came up with these numerical values

thinking that it will be easy to write

it as a short form.

Writing 786 instead of

It

is not

established

from the glorious Quran nor from the authentic

sayings of our beloved prophet Muhammad, peace be

upon. Neither did the sahabas

talk about this or mention

this figure of 786.

Neither did the classical scholars mention regarding this.

So certain people, they came up with this

afterwards. And when you add up all of

this, for example, ba has a particular value,

seen has a particular value, meme has a

particular value. When you add all of the

letters Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, the total comes up

to 786.

There is no basis for this.

This should not be done. It has no

basis from the glorious Quran nor

does it have any basis from the authentic

teachings of our beloved prophet Muhammad, peace be

upon him. And if you add these numerical

values, it can mean something bad as well.

So if you want to write Bismillah rahman

al Rahim, you either write Bismillah or you

either write Bismillah rahman al Rahim, But you

should avoid

writing 786.

It is not based

on any words of the glorious Quran. It's

not mentioned anywhere the glorious Quran nor in

any authentic hadith of our beloved prophet Muhammad.

May peace and blessings be upon him so

this should not be done. I hope that

answers your question.