To understand this, I hope people who read this actually understand basic chords of music that is A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, and G#. If you do not understand try to figure it out later by learning. To make it easy, I will start everything using the standard tuning for most musical instrument, open chord which is start from E to D# (E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B, C, C#, D, and D#).
It’s better for me to use guitar string as a guide because I’m not familiar with musical notes.

For people who are not familiar with cord this is a slight introduction. Every guitar has open chords, chords that can be plucked without pressing. Above is the standard tuning for most players. The vertical lines resemble frets/cords. Guitar has 18, 21,22, or 24 frets but for this example I will show you using full frets to make complete circle of 2 octave, (E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B, C, C#, D, and D#) X 2=24.
I will use E major (start from the first cord (0)) as an example. As you can see, when you move onward to fret number 7 you reach B, move 5 fret you reach E with higher octave, 4 onward reach G# and last 3 reach back to B. This pattern 7+5+4+3 you can apply on every other cord A until G# to form major chord. Notice that the sum of this pattern gives you number 19!!!
0+7+5+4+3 = 3+9+7 = 19.
I have told you before about this but this is what I get more exactly
07543 = 19 X 397
Do you think this is coincidence? Yes people might say why this pattern only appear in major chords not minor or seven cord, etc. Well, all that I can say right now, without the major cord, minor, 7, etc chords won’t appear right? Still believe it coincidence, well, let make another example.
Muslims pray at least 5 times a day
|
Solat (Praying) |
Subh (Dawn) |
Zuhr (Noon) |
Asr (Afternoon) |
Maghrib (Maghrib) |
Isya’ (Night) |
|
Rakaat |
2 |
4 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
Notice that when you assemble all number
2+4+4+3+4=1+2+8+6=17
24434 = 19 X 1286
Now, what its relation with the musical cords?
Consider this,
|
Solat (Praying) |
Subh (Dawn) |
Zuhr (Noon) |
Asr (Afternoon) |
Maghrib (Evening) |
Isya’ (Night) |
|
Rakaat |
2 |
4 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
|
Chords W/O # |
E,F |
G |
A |
B,C |
D |
|
Chords W # |
F# |
G# |
A# |
C# |
D# |
Chords without their sharp are E and B so I put it next to F and C as their pairs. Now you can see the pattern, chords with no pair and need chords next to them as a pair have shorter rakaat (2 and 3) whereas cords with pairs have longest rakaat (4). We can see that subh has 2 rakaat and maghrib 3. Look carefully the relation with the chords.
|
Solat (Praying) |
Isya’ (Night) |
Subh (Dawn) |
|
Rakaat |
4 |
2 |
|
Chords W/O # |
D |
E,F |
|
Chords W # |
D# |
F# |
|
Solat (Praying) |
Zuhr (Noon) |
Asr (Afternoon) |
Maghrib (Evening) |
|
Rakaat |
4 |
4 |
3 |
|
Chords W/O # |
G |
A |
B,C |
|
Chords W # |
G# |
A# |
C# |
I split the table into two your understanding. See that before triple chord in subh, has only one double cord that in isya’ whereas in triple chord of maghrib, has twice double cord for zuhr and asr praying. The rakaat for subh (2) and maghrib (3) are indicator for the gap between the chords.
Still figure it coincidence? Consider the last part that will make you amaze, try to merge between pattern in the chords with the rakaat.
7543 = 19 X 397 or 07543 = 19 X 397
24434 = 19 X 1286
754324434 = 19 X 39701286 or 244347543 = 19 X 12860397
Or
0754324434 = 19 X 39701286 or 2443407543 = 19 X 128600397
What is 19? As you can see, most of the number can be divided exactly with 19. This can’t be coincidence, but perfectly arranged. Who else can do this other than the Almighty? 19 is a number resemble the oneness of God. In Arabic, it call “wahd” resemble “one”. For your concern, numerical value of wahd is W(Wau)=6, A(Alif)=1, H(Ha’)=8, D(Dal)=4 total 19. All of this enough to prove God is…
Allah Almighty Knows best
References:
1. Analysis on Guitar and solat
2. Al-Quran Nur Karim translation
3. M. Quraish Shihab, Quranic translation, Pustaka Hidayah
4. Dr. Tariq. (mathematician and Quranic scholar in US)
5. Elarbi Bougdid (mathematician )