If Allah has a plan, what is the point of Dua?

[Angrboda]

I'm sure they are as convincing to you as they are unconvincing to me.  The bulk fall under the headings of numerology and retconning, the practice of putting new interpretations on old passages as if the interpretation was there all along.  I don't think we need a rehash.

Well I know how a lot of atheists believe in scientific and astronomical reasoning and as I said there are plenty of examples of the Qur'an that are supported by these schools of thought. For example there are 114 chapters in the Qur'an. Ch.57 is Al-Hadyd or The Iron. Arabic letters have numerical value like Roman numerals in a sense. So with the word for iron Hadyd...(Ha)H=8 (Dal)D=4 (Ya)Y=10 and (Dal)=4. Add these values together u get 26. Look on any periodic table on Fe the symbol for iron u see the atomic number is 26. Now furthermore the Arabic article Al which means the (Alif)A=1 and(Lam)L=30. Add this 31 to the value of 26 Making it 57 and Al-Hadyd "The iron" which is the chapter name and number. To take it 1 step further 57 is exactly halfway through the Qur'an..scientists have discovered that if u cut the Earth in half, exactly to its inner core, it consists of molten iron.

These type of coincidences demonstrate nothing. They result from people with two much time on their hands looking for significance where there is none. Now if Muhammed had written about such numbers occurring in his text, I might not so casually dismiss it, but then it would be intentional. There's nothing here that couldn't have happened by accident. As far as proof of faith, none of these numerological miracles is convincing. It's like the Davinci code; you can find parallels in any text of sufficient length.