So too from these six levels, the Disposer of the universe has set His seal on its being sheer truth and right, and not being man's word, and its containing no error — the Disposer, Who has made it His practice to always exhibit beauty in the universe, protect good and right, and eliminate imposters and liars, has confirmed and set His seal on the Qur'an by giving it the most acceptable, highest, and most dominant place of respect and degree of success in the world.
And so too the one who is the source of Islam and interpreter of the Qur'an — his believing in it and holding it in greater respect than everyone else, and being in a sleep-like state when it was revealed,¹⁸ and other words and speeches not resembling or coming near it, and that Interpreter's describing without hesistation and with complete confidence through the Qur'an true cosmic events of generally the past and the future from behind the veil of the Unseen, and no trickery or fault being observed in him while being under the gazes of the sharpest eyes, and his believing and affirming every pronouncement of the Qur'an with all his strength and nothing shak¬ing him, is a stamp confirming that the Qur'an is revealed and true and the blessed Word of his own Compassionate Creator.
Also a fifth of mankind, indeed the greater part of it, being drawn to the Qur'an and bound to it in religion and giving ear to it eagerly desirous of the truth, and according to the testimony of many indications and events and illuminations, the jinn, angels, and spirit beings also gathering around іі in truth-worshipping fashion like moths whenever it is recited¹⁹ is a stamp confirming the Qur'an's acceptance by all beings and that it occu¬pies a most high position.
Also, all the classes of mankind from the most stupid and lowly to the cleverest and most learned taking their full share of the Qur'an's instruc¬tion and their understanding its most profound truths, and all branches of scholars like the great interpreters of the Greater Shari'a in particular, and hundreds of Islamic sciences and branches of knowledge, and the brilliant and exacting scholars of theology and the principles of religion extracting from the Qur'an all the needs and answers for their own sciences is a stamp confirming that the Qur'an is a source of truth and mine of reality.
Also, although the Arab literary figures, who were the most advanced in regard to literature, —those of them who were not Muslims— had the greatest need to dispute the Qur'an, their avoiding producing the like ofonly a single sura and its eloquence, eloquence being only one aspect of the seven major aspects of the Qur'an's miraculousness, as well as the famous orators and brilliant scholars up to the present who have wanted to gain fame through disputing it being unable to oppose a single aspect of its miraculousness and their remaining silent in impotence, is a stamp confirm¬ing that the Qur'an is a miracle and beyond the powers of man.
Yes, the value, superiority, and eloquence of a speech or word is appar¬ent through knowing, "from whom it has come and to whom, and for what purpose;" the Qur'an then can have no like, and none can reach it. For the Qur'an is a speech and address of the Sustainer of all the worlds and Crea¬tor of the whole universe and a dialogue in no way hinting of imitation and artificiality. It is addressed to the one sent in the name of all men, indeed of all beings, the most famous and renowned of mankind, the strength and breadth of whose belief gave rise to mighty Islam and raised its owner to the level of the "Distance of Two Bow-strings" and returned him as the addressee of the Eternally Besought One. It describes and explains the mat¬ters concerning happiness in this world and the next, the results of the crea¬tion of the universe, and the dominical purposes within it. It expounds also the belief of the one it addresses, which was the highest and most extensive of belief and bore all the truths of Islam. It turns and shows every side of the huge universe like a map, a clock, or a house, and teaches and describes it in the manner of the Craftsman Who made them — to produce the like of this Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition is not possible; the degree of its miraculousness cannot be attained to.
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18. Muslim, iv, nos: 1816. 1817; al-Hākim. al-Mustadrak, іі. 392; Tabriz!, Mislikar MaşühVı. No: 4844.
19. BuUiārī, vi. 234: al-Musladrak, і, 553, 554.