The Name Manipulation Problem
Part of Alban Fejza: Refutations - His "Evidences"
Alban Fejza opens his mathematical proofs material with a bold declaration: he will use his full official name, "Alban Fejza," as the basis for his calculations. He then almost immediately contradicts his own stated methodology - and attempts to obscure the contradiction.
The Arabic rendering he uses for "Alban" is البن. This is incorrect. The proper Arabic transliteration is ألبان - and the difference is not trivial. His version drops the Hamza entirely and eliminates an alif, producing a word that is not his name. Two separate errors in a single word, in a calculation whose entire premise depends on the precision of that word.
His last name fares no better. "Fejza" can be transliterated into Arabic in several defensible ways: فيزا, or فيزة if the prominent Z sound is to be preserved, or فيجا if the strong J sound takes precedence - giving فيجزة as the most complete rendering. What Fejza claims it to be is فاز. This is not a transliteration of his name. It is a different word entirely.
The deeper issue is that neither Alban nor Fejza are names of Arabic origin. Foreign names present a fundamental problem for this kind of calculation precisely because they have no single correct Arabic spelling - the same name can be legitimately written multiple ways depending on which phonetic elements are being prioritized, producing different letter values and entirely different numerical results. "Xavier," for instance, can be rendered as زافير (Zafir) or كازافييه (Kazafiyah) - two Arabic forms that sound nearly different from one another yet both translate back to the same English name.
This is not a minor technical difficulty. It is a foundational one. The calculation is built on a name that has no fixed Arabic form, transliterated incorrectly, and then manipulated further to produce a desired result. This stands in direct contrast to Rashad Khalifa, whose first and last names are both of Arabic origin, carry unambiguous spellings, and require no manipulation whatsoever.
God supports His chosen messengers with signs that authenticate divine authority - Abraham with the fire, Saleh with the camel, Jesus with his miracles, Rashad with the mathematical code of the Quran. These signs do not merely suggest divine favor; they constitute proof of it. A calculation built on a manipulated, non-Arabic name with no fixed spelling is not a sign. It is a constructed result.