The number 786 is very well known number many of us have used 786 to denote the basmallah. Number 786 meaning in Islam ? In school days we always used to write 786 on top of the exam answer sheets to seek blessings and start the exam with Bismillah. Which is what we are supposed to do when doing something good. Here we intrigued by how the 786 came to equal bismillah. There is biggest known logic we just found out and thought may be someone else did not know also.

786 meaning in islam
Number 786 meaning in Islam


The Arabic letters were divided following a certain numerical values given to each of the consonants. Be sure you must have come across the following words which have no meaning themselves before you started the Quran proper.

أبجد/ هوز/ حطي/ كلمن /سعفص/ قرشت/ ثخذ/ ضظغ

In the above arrangement, each of the consonant in the groups is allotted a specific number, viz
alif=1   baa=2   jeem=3   daal=4  haa=5     waaw=6   zaa=7  haa=8   taa=9  yaa=10
kaaf=20  laam=30  meem=40  noon=50  seen=60  ‘ayn=70  faa-80  saad=90  qaaf=100
raa=200  sheen=300  taa= 400  thaa=500  khaa=600  dhall=700  daa=800  zaa=900  ghayn= 1000 so
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم will be baa=2  seen=60  meem=40  alif=1  laam=30  laam=30  haa=5  alif=1  laam=30  raa=200  haa=8  meem=40    noon=50  alif=1  laam=30  raa=200 haa=8  yaa=10  meem=40

If you sum up the numbers;
2+60+40+1+30+30+5+1+30+200+8+40+50+1+30+200+8+10+40=786

In This Book he links the 19 letters of Bismillah with 19 guardians of Hell. Other scholars did not question the number of letters in Basmalah until after the discovery of the the mathematical miracle of the Quran.

To read about the history of the gematrical value of number

Here is a table explaining the above answer

Letter No.ArabicEnglishGematrical Value
1Baa’B2
2SiinS60
3MiimM40
4‘AlifA1
5LaamL30
6LaamL30
7Haa’H6
8‘AlifA1
9LaamL30
10Raa’R200
11H!aa’H8
12MiimM40
13NuunN50
14‘AlifA1
15LaamL30
16Raa’R200
17H!aa’H8
18Yaa’Y10
19MiimM40
Total786

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