Say, "I do not know if what you are promised is near, or if my Lord will make it distant."
Translation endnotes
[72:19-28] The prophecy involving numbers was fulfilled in 1974. The person's name who was chosen to unveil the prophecy in Chapter 74, which is summarized with the number 19, is mentioned in the Quran, together with all its derivatives exactly 19 times and 4 of them occur in this chapter (72:2; 72:10; 72:14; 72:21). Those who notice statistical anomalies and reflect on the relationship of statistical anomalies and their semantic context will have no doubt about this divine revelation. Furthermore, the name of the person with its exact format is mentioned twice in the Quran (40:29 and 40:38) and they sandwich a quote from unappreciative people who rejected a new messenger by arguing, "God will not send any messenger after him." Interestingly, a polytheist terrorist group affiliated with Bin Laden's al-Qaida, al- Fuqra or al-Fuqara, killed that messenger in early 1990, as another prophetic remark in verses 72:19 and 40:28. Considered to be al-Qaida's first terrorist act in the USA, the events following the murder brought the Islamic reformation movement started by the messenger to the attention of the entire world. In this and many other events, there are signs for those who reflect. See 3:81; 40:28-38; 74:1-56.