Code of Disjointed Letters: ( Doomsday Will Arise From the Past
for the competition. The easiest idea was to poison Fatin and sell him the antidote, but I knew that couldn’t go beyond a thought.
    The next afternoon, it was again my turn to be interviewed by the host. So I sat again in front of the cameras and talked about my thoughts on the competition and about Gizem’s elimination. As my mind was occupied with the next challenge, I didn’t insist on talking as much about my book and the code. When asked about the other competitors, I avoided the subject by giving wishy-washy answers. I expertly navigated questions intended to trap me, such as what had happened to my lip. By the time the hourglass was empty, I had grown bored and I slipped out of the room.
    When I went into the lounge, Ender and Hidir, the cleric, were there. Hidir was talking while sketching something on a paper, and the boy was cheerfully listening to him. The cleric seemed like he was talking to his grandchild.
    “The Qur’an is the greatest miracle and was always directed to him. When our Prophet was asked to show a miracle, he always showed it. People always wanted more, and they studied this holy book for centuries. They still do. In the process, one of the discoveries that has been made about the book is the repetition of words.”
    “The word day is used three hundred and sixty-five times,” Hidir explained. “The word days , thirty times; the word month is used twelve times; punishment , one hundred and seventeen times; the word forgive is used twice that much; the world , one hundred and fifteen; the devil , eighty-eight; angels , eighty-eight; heaven , seventy-seven; hell , seventy-seven times; return , seventy-five; eternity , seventy times; the sun , thirty-three times; and nimbus is used thirty-three times. Those are only a few examples. Even the word land is used thirteen times; and the word sea , thirty-two times. That is consistent with the current ratio of land to sea on Earth, 71.111 percent.”
    After silently returning to his drawing for a moment, Hıdır, turned back to the boy and continued. “As we know, in the Qur’an, twenty-nine suras begin with one or more symbolic letters. Mukataa letters, known as the disjointed letters, are also called the beginning letters. Fourteen letters out of twenty-nine in Arabic form the mukataa letters: Ayn, Sin, Kaf, Nun, Ra, Ya, Ta, Ha, Elif, Lam, Mim, He, Sad , and Kefar .”
     

 
    “When one looks at the usage of the letter Nun in the Kaleem sura,” he continued, “he or she can see the rhyme with the letter Nun in 88.8 percent of the verses. That rhymes with 84.6 percent of the sura, Suara, 90.32 percent of the sura, Neml, and 92.05 percent of the sura, Kasas.
    “When one considers the whole Qur’an, one can see that there is a rhyme with the letter Nun in 50.08 percent of the book. In other words, more than half of the verses in the Qur’an end with Nun . It has been impossible to make a rhyme with a single vowel in more than half of the text in any literary work. This is not just true for Arabic; it applies to all languages.
    “When a general review of the Qur’an is done in terms of rhyme, it is seen that about eighty percent of the rhyming is formed by three vowels ( n , m , and a ) formed by Elif, Mim, Ya , and Nun . Except for the letter Nun , thirty percent of verses are rhymed with Mim, Elif , or Ya .
    “In a poem with two hundred to three hundred lines, the rhyme formed by two or three vowels is enough for the work to be considered a masterpiece. However, when considering the length of the Qur’an, the information it contains, and its wisdom, one can better understand how phenomenal such a rhyme pattern is. In this regard, Arabic language experts define the Qur’an as absolutely inimitable.”
    Ender was eagerly listening to the cleric. I wanted to interrupt and ask Ender his opinions on the issue, but I kept my silence so as not to disturb their conversation and to avoid treating the boy like a freak. When Fatin came into the

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