The Prime Number Code. Mathematical Universe.Islamic Mathematic.s Matematika Alam Semesta. Until Rashad Khalifa discovered the awesome mathematical miracle of the Qur’an, most Islamic scholars believed this passage to relate to angels; specifically 19 angels. Yusuf Ali, in his footnote 5793, states, "The figure nineteen refers to angles appointed to guard Hell." Verse 31 does in fact relate to angels as guardians and that God has, Islamic Mathematics "fixed their number." Muhammad Asad draws a different conclusion and translated the passage as, "Over it are nineteen [powers]" and he states in his correspondingly long footnote that, "…Islamic Mathematics..Razi advances the view that we may have here a reference to the physical, intellectual and emotional powers within man himself." He goes on to describe the nineteen powers as seven organic functions, five external or physical senses, and five internal or intellectual senses. He then sums up the argument by stating, "…that in the aggregate, it is these powers and faculties that confers upon man the ability to think conceptually, and place him, in this respect, even above angels."  Islamic Mathematics. How he or Razi deduced all of this from Q74:30 is beyond me and I must confess that this is just one example where "man" has extended himself in trying to analyze and draw conclusions from the Qur’an. Man has continually, and sometimes erroneously, over analyzed and read much into the Qur’an’s eternal message. If the Qur’an had stated 18 or 20 instead of 19 they would have written that there were 18 or 20 angels standing guard and only 18 powers, omitting one from their list, or 20 powers and deduced yet an additional power to complete their argument. Islamic Mathematics.