If the shortest apparent meaning of the phrase “All praise be to God” on which all the  scholars of Arabic are agreed  is thus, how  could  it be translated  into another language with the same miraculousness and power?

Furthermore, among all the languages of the world, there is only one that can compare with Arabic in being the language of grammar, and that can never achieve the comprehensiveness  of Arabic. Is it possible for translations into other composite and inflectional languages by people whose understanding is partial, comprehension short, ideas confused, and hearts dark, to take the place of the sacred words of the Qur’an,  which  have  emerged  in  miraculous  fashion  in  that  comprehensive  and wondrous grammatical language through an all-encompassing knowledge that knows all its aspects at once and wills them. I can even say, and perhaps prove, that all the Qur’an’s words are like treasuries of truths, with sometimes a single letter teaching a page of truths.

SIXTH POINT

I shall recount a luminous experience and true vision I had for the purpose of illucidating the above. It was as follows:

One time, I was pondering over the use of the first person plural in the verse “You alone do we worship and from You alone do we seek help,”(1:4) and my heart was seeking the reason for the first person singular being transposed  into the first person plural of “we worship”(na‘budu).  Suddenly from that “Nun” the mystery and virtues of performing the prayers in congregation were unfolded to me. I saw that my participating  in the congregation  in Bayezid  Mosque,  where I was performing  the prayer,  made  each member  of the congregation  a sort  of intercessor  for  me who testified  to  and  affirmed  each  of  the  statements  I pronounced  while  reciting  the prayers.  In the midst of the great, multiple worship  of the congregation,  I felt the courage to offer my deficient worship  to the divine court. Then a further veil was lifted. That is, all the mosques of Istanbul were added. The city became like Beyazid Mosque.  Suddenly I felt as though I were receiving  their prayers and affirmation. Then within that, I saw myself in the mosque of the face of the earth, in the circular rows around the Ka‘ba.