On January 31, 1990, sometime before dawn, Dr. Rashad Khalifa, God's Messenger of the Covenant, was martyred by one or more disbelievers who broke into the masjid earlier that night and waited for him to come in. It was a well known fact that Dr. Khalifa would come every day in the early hours to carry on his work on this translation.

By God's grace, he had completed his review of the majority of this translation, having finished through Sura 49 the evening before. He had given detailed instructions to the people who were involved in the proof reading about specific changes he had already made and the changes he planned to make. Except for these changes specified by him, and obvious grammatical or printing errors, the text has been left untouched.

New material has been added to two of the Appendices—15 and 17. In the last few months before Dr. Khalifa died, the awesome mathematical miracle confirming the 5 Contact Prayers was discovered by brothers of Masjid Tucson. Dr. Khalifa had detailed these miracles in the January, 1990, issue of the Submitters Perspective, the monthly newsletter of United Submitters International, of which he was the editor. They are herein reproduced in Appendix 15 under the section on the Contact Prayers.

In the February, 1990, issue of Submitters Perspective, also written and printed before he died, Dr. Khalifa confirmed through Quran the fact that the righteous do not really die—they go directly to Paradise. That article is reproduced in Appendix 17 on Death.

Thus, the appendices have been updated using his own material. Minor corrections to some of the mathematical tables in Appendices 1, 2, 24 and 29 were also required; and two tables were found to be incorrect and therefore deleted.

In the months since Dr. Khalifa's martyrdom we have had reassurances that the channel which he opened for the discoveries of the numerical parameters embedded in the Quran is not closed. These discoveries continue to flow, and will continue to be published in other works.

Dr. Rashad Khalifa, God's Messenger of the Covenant, has departed, just like all the other messengers before him, but the purified message is alive and will continue to sustain this world until the very end. It is Quran.