In describing all the attainments of learning, scientific progress, and wonders of technology with which we have been endowed because of our vast potential under the title of “the teaching of the Names,” the above verse alludes to a fine point: Each attainment, perfection, learning, progress, and science has an elevated reality based on a Divine Name. Manifesting itself through veils and in various ways and levels, a particular branch of science or art attains its perfection and becomes reality. Otherwise it remains imperfect, deficient, and shadowy.

For example, engineering’s reality lies in the Divine Names the All‑Just (One Who gives everything a certain measure and creates everything in its place) and the Determiner. Its final aim is to receive the wise manifestations of those Names in full measure and with all their majesty. Medicine is an art and a science. Its reality lies in the Divine Name the All‑Healing, and its perfection in finding a cure for every illness by discovering the manifestations of the Absolutely Wise One’s mercy in Earth, His vast “pharmacy.”

Each natural science, which discusses the reality of entities, can be a true science full of wisdom only by discerning the regulating, directing, administering, sustaining, and all‑embracing manifestations of the Divine Name the All‑Wise in things; in the benefits and advantages of those things; and by being based on that Name. Otherwise they become superstition and nonsense, or, like naturalistic philosophy, cause misguidance. Compare these three examples with other sciences and attainments.

With this verse, the wise Qur’an points to the highest points, the furthest limits, the final degrees—from which we are still far removed—and urges us toward them. This verse is extremely rich and elaborate in meaning, but for now I will go no further.

The Qur’an is Prophet Muhammad’s supreme miracle, the seal of the Office of Prophethood, the leader of Prophets, and the cause of pride of all beings. When compared with his cause of Messengership, all Prophets’ miracles are like one miracle. He was endowed in full with all the levels of all the Names taught, in brief, to Adam. By raising his finger in a mood of majesty, the Prophet split the moon; by lowering it in a manifestation of grace, he made water flow from it abundantly; and he was verified and corroborated by hundreds of miracles. Numerous verses like: Say: “If people and jinn banded together to produce the like of this Qur’an, they would never produce its like, not though they backed each other” (17:88) express its pure explanation, eloquent expression, comprehensive meanings, and sublime and sweet styles. Together, these constitute one of the Qur’an’s most brilliant aspects.

Such verses attract people and jinn to the most manifest and brilliant aspects of that Eternal Miracle. It provokes them, stirring up the zeal of its friends and the obstinacy of its enemies. It encourages and stimulates them to produce something resembling it. It places that miracle before the eyes of creatures, as if humanity’s only aim is to take it as our goal and guiding principle in life, to study so that we can advance consciously and knowingly to the goal destined in creation.

In brief, therefore, the other Prophets’ miracles point to a wonder of human arts or crafts and technology. Adam’s miracle indicates a concise, summarized form of the basis of those crafts, as well as the indexes of sciences, branches of knowledge, and wonders and perfections, and urges us toward them. The Qur’an of Miraculous Expression, the supreme miracle of Muhammad, the object of all the Divine Names’ manifestations in their fullness, shows fully the true goal of science and all branches of knowledge, as well as the perfections, attainments, and happiness of both worlds. It urges us toward them in such a way that it means: “O people, the sublime aim in creating this universe is your response to Divine Lordship’s manifestation (administering, directing, training, and sustaining) with universal worship. Your ultimate aim is to realize that worship through science, attainment, and perfections.”

The Qur’an also hints at this: “At the end of time, humanity will pour into science and learning. People will derive all strength from science. Power and rule will pass to the hand of science and knowledge.” By frequently emphasizing its eloquent and beautiful style, the Qur’an suggests: “At the end of time, eloquence and beauty of expression, the most brilliant sciences and branches of knowledge, will be most sought after in all their varieties. People will find that when it comes to making each other accept their opinions and exercise their rule, their most effective weapon will be eloquent expression; their most irresistible force will be fine oratory.”

In short, most Qur’anic verses are keys to a treasury of perfections and a store of knowledge. If you want to ascend to the Qur’an’s sky and reach the stars of its verses, make these 20 Words a 20‑step stairway and climb them. You will see what a brilliant, shining sun the Qur’an is. Notice how it radiates a pure light over the Divine truths and the truths of the contingent (created) realm. See what a brilliant light it spreads.