Letters ( revised ) | The Twenty-Ninth Letter | 465
(447-527)

          The Third Section,

          which is the Third Treatise

 

 

[I wrote this section in order to present an important intention of mine to my brothers of the hereafter for their consideration.  It concerns the writing  of a Qur’an in a way that will show one of the two hundred sorts of the Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition’s miraculousness – a sort pertaining to its patterns – with the pages specified in accordance with the style of Hafiz Osman and taking the Mudayana Verse(2:282) as the measure,  and taking Sura al-Ikhlas as the standard for the lines. This Third Section,  which I wrote to consult  them concerning  this  matter and to learn their ideas, and also as a reminder to myself, consists of nine matters.]

 

 

FIRST MATTER

 

It  is  established  with  proofs  in  the  Twenty-Fifth  Word,  called  The Miraculousness of the Qur’an, that the varieties of the Qur’an of Mighty Stature’s miraculousness number forty. Some of these are demonstrated in detail, and some briefly,   so   as   to   convince   even   the   obdurate.   Also,   the   different   sorts   of miraculousness the Qur’an shows to each of forty of the classes of humanity were explained in the Eighteenth Sign of the Nineteenth Letter, and the shares received by ten of those groups were proved. The remaining thirty classes consist of the followers of all the different ways of sainthood and the scholars of all the various sciences, who demonstrated  their certain, verified belief to the degrees of knowledge of certainty, vision of certainty, and absolute certainty that the Qur’an is the true Word of God. That is to say, each of them discerned a different aspect of its miraculousness in a different way. Yes, just as the miraculousness a saint who seeks knowledge of God understands will not the same as the beauty of the miraculousness  a saint who is a lover of God witnesses, so the manifestations of the beauty of its miraculousness var y according  to  the  different  ways  and  paths.  And  the  aspect  of  miraculousness  a profound scholar of the principles of religion sees will not be the same as that seen by an authoritative interpreter of the secondary matters of the Shari‘a sees; and so on.
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