THE TWENTY-FIFTH WORD: On the Miraculousness of the Qur'an. The verses discussed in this Word have been criticised by atheists or objected to in the name of science, but are proved according to scholarly principles to be flashes of miraculousness and eloquence ........................................................375

Introduction: Definition of the Qur'an, in three parts.. ......................................................376

First Light consists of three 'Rays' ..................................................................................378

First Ray: The eloquence of the Qur'an, which is at the degree of miraculousness, in two 'Aspects' and five 'Points' ................................................................................................378

Second Ray: The Qur'an's extraordinary comprehensiveness, in five 'Flashes', including five 'Glows' ..........................................................................................................................402

Third Ray: The Qur'an's miraculousness pertaining to its giving news of the Unseen, its preserving its youth throughout the ages, and its addressing all classes of mankind appropriately, in three 'Radiances', including three 'Glistens', three 'Degrees', and four 'Principles' .......................................................................................................................416

Second Light consists of three 'Beams' ...........................................................................426

First Beam: The fluency, proportionateness, and harmony of the Qur'an as a whole ........................................................................................................................................426

Second Beam: Ten 'Points of Eloquence' ........................................................................428

Third Beam: The Qur'an cannot be compared with other speech and writings .................443

Third Light consists of three 'Gleams' ............................................................................447

First Gleam: Through scattering the light of guidance and miraculousness, each of the Qur'an's verses disperses the darkness of unbelief and heedlessness .................................447

Second Gleam: A comparison between how Qur'anic wisdom and human philosophy see the world .............................................................................................................................450

Third Gleam: The degrees of wisdom before the wisdom of the Qur'an of the purified scholars and saints and the Illuminist philosophers ............................................................453

Conclusion ....................................................................................................................457

First Addendum: From The Supreme Sign, The Observations of a Traveller Questioning the Universe about his Creator, in six 'Points' ................................................................459

A Flower of Emirdağ: A reply to objections about repetition in the Qur'an .........................465

Conclusion, in the form of two 'Additions' .......................................................................474