Letters ( revised ) | THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LETTER | 430
(399-446)

Furthermore,  although  in the  truths  of  belief  and  the  Qur’an  there  is such  a breadth that the greatest human genius cannot comprehend them, the fact that they appeared together with the great majority of their fine points through someone like me whose mind is confused, situation wretched, has no book to refer to, and who writes with difficulty and at speed, is directly the work of the All-Wise Qur’an’s miraculousness and a manifestation of dominical favour and a powerful sign from the Unseen.

 

FOURTH SIGN

 

Fifty to sixty treatises were bestowed in such a way that, being works that could not  be  written  through  the  efforts  and  exertions  of  great  geniuses  and  exacting scholars, let alone someone like me who thinks little, follows the apparent, and does not have the time for close study, they demonstrate that they are directly the works of divine favour. For in all these treatises, the most profound truths are taught by means of  comparisons  to  the  most  ordinary  and  uneducated  people.  Whereas  leading scholars   have   said   about   most   of   those   truths   that   they   cannot   be   made comprehensible and have not taught them to the elite, let alone to the common people.

Thus, for these most distant truths to be taught to the most ordinary man in the closest way, with wondrous ease and clarity of expression, by someone like me who has little Turkish,  whose words are obscure and mostly incomprehensible,  and for many years has been famous for complicating  the clearest facts and whose former works  confirm  this  ill-fame,  is certainly  and  without  any doubt  a mark of divine favour and cannot be through his skill; it is a manifestation of the Noble Qur’an’s miraculousness, and a representation and reflection of the Qur’an’s comparisons.

 

FIFTH SIGN

 

The  fact  that  although  generally  speaking  the  treatises   have  been  widely distributed,  and  classes  and  groups  of  people  from  the  loftiest  scholars  to  the uneducated, and from great saints from among those who approach reality with their hearts to the most obdurate irreligious philosphers, have seen them and studied them and have not criticized them, despite some of them receiving blows through them; and the fact that each group has benefited from them according to its degree; is directly a mark of dominical favour and a wonder of the Qur’an. And although treatises of that sort are written only after much study and research, these were written with extraordinary speed and at distressing times when my mind was contracted, confusing  my thought  and understanding,  which is a mark of divine  favour and a dominical bestowal.

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