“Thirdly:  Also,  non-acceptance  is  one  thing  and  denial  is  something  quite different.  Non-acceptance  is  indifference,  a  closing  of  the  eyes  to  something,  an ignorant absence of judgement. It may mask many completely impossible things and the mind does not concern itself with them. As for denial, it is not non-acceptance, but the acceptance of non-existence; it is a judgement. The mind is compelled to work. So a devil like you takes hold of someone’s mind and leads it to denial. Showing the false to be truth and the impossible to be possible through such satanic wiles as heedlessness, misguidance, fallacious reasoning, obstinacy, false arguments, pride, deception, and habit, you make those unfortunate creatures in human form swallow unbelief and denial, although they comprise innumerable impossibilities.

“Fourthly: Also, if the Qur’an is supposed to be the word of man, it necessitates imagining  to  be  its  opposite  a  book  that  has  self-evidently  guided  the  purified, veracious saints and spiritual poles, who shine like stars in the heavens of the world of mankind, has continuously instructed all levels of perfected men in truth and justice, veracity and fidelity, faith and trustworthiness, and has ensured the happiness of this world and the next through the truths of the pillars of faith and the principles of the pillars of Islam; a book that through the testimony of its achievements is of necessit y veracious,  and  pure,  genuine  truth,  and  absolutely  right,  and  most  serious  –  it necessitates imagining, God forbid, that it comprises the opposites of these qualities, effects, and lights, and not only is a collection  of fabrications  and lies, but also a frenzy of unbelief that would shame even the Sophists and the devils, and cause them to tremble.

“This  impossibility  necessitates  the  further,  most  ugly  and  abhorrent, impossibility  that  the  person  who,  according  to  the testimony  of the religion  and Shari‘a  of Islam  that  he proclaimed,  and the extraordinary  fear  of God  and pure, sincere worship that he demonstrated  throughout his life, and as necessitated  by the good moral qualities unanimously witnessed in him, and according to the affirmation of the people of truth and perfection whom he raised, was the most believing,  the most steadfast, the most trustworthy,  and the most truthful, was – God forbid, and again, God forbid – without faith, that he was most untrustworthy, did not fear God, nor shrink from lying. To imagine  this necessitates  imagining  the most loathsome form of impossibility and perpetrating the most iniquitous and vicious sort of misguidance.

“In  Short:  As is  stated  in the  Eighteenth  Sign  of the  Nineteenth  Letter,  the common people, who gain an understanding of the Qur’an’s miraculous nature by listening to it, say: ‘If I were to compare the Qur’an with all the other books I have listened to, or with all the other books in the world, it would resemble none of them; it is not the same as them in either kind or degree.’