Mathnawi al-Nuriya ( not all sections) | Second Treatise | 17
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Fourteenth droplet


This contains "driblets" from the ocean of the greatest miracle [i.e. the Qur'an].

First driblet


Know that the arguments for the Prophethood of Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, are uncountable. Exacting scholars have written volumes to explain them. Despite my shortcomings, I humbly attempted to offer some "rays" from this "sun" in a Turkish treatise called The Rays and explain briefly some aspects of the Qur'an's miraculousness, numbering around fifty, in another treatise named The Flashes. I expounded its eloquence, which is only one of those aspects, in Sig7ts of Miraculousness, an introduction to the interpretation of the holy Qur'an.

Second driblet


The Qur'an came from the Creator of the heavens and heavenly objects and this earth and earthly creatures. You must have understood from the foregoing explanations that the Qur'an, which makes our Lord, the Lord of the Worlds, known to us, deals with many issues in different degrees of priority.
If you ask what the Qur'an is, we have already described it elsewhere as follows:
The Qur'an is the eternal translation of the universe and the everlasting translator of the "languages" expressive of the Divine Being's natural signs and the interpreter of the book of the universe. Also, it is the discloser of the secrets of the Divine Names' treasuries hidden on the "pages" of the heavens and earth, and the key to the truths which lie beneath the lines of events. Again, it is the tongue of the unseen world in the visible, material one; the treasury of the eternal Divine Speech and the eternal favors of the All-Merciful One. It is the foundation, plan and sun of the spiritual and intellectual world of Islam and the map of the world of the Hereafter. It is the expounder, the lucid interpreter, articulate proof, and clear translator of the Divine Essence, Attributes, Names and acts; the educator and trainer of the world of humanity and the water and light of Islam, which is the true and greatest humanity. It is the true wisdom of humankind and their true guide leading them to that which they were created for. As it is a book of law for human beings, it is also a book of wisdom for them. As it is a book of worship and servanthood to God, it is also a book of commands and invitation. As it is a book of invocation, it is also a book of contemplation. It is a single book, but a book containing many books for all the needs of mankind. It is also like a sacred library filled with books and treatises from which all the saints and eminently truthful ones, and all the purified and discerning scholars and gnostics of different temperaments and approach have derived their ways peculiar to each. It illuminates each of these ways and answers the needs of their followers who likewise have their different tastes and temperaments.
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