The Qur’an’s miraculousness in a different manner.. To what extent human philosophy is inferior to the Qur’an’s wisdom.. Comparison between the Qur'an's students and the students of human philosophy.

Third light

This consists of three rays.

First ray

A significant aspect of the Qur’an’s miraculousness is explained in The Thirteenth Word. I mention it here as well, as the context makes it appropriate to do so.

To see and appreciate how each Qur’anic verse removes the darkness of unbelief by spreading the light of miraculousness and guidance, imagine yourself in pre-Islamic Arabia. During that time of ignorance and in that desert of savagery, everything was covered in veils of lifelessness and nature amid the darkness of ignorance and heedlessness. Suddenly, you hear from the Qur’an’s sublime tongue such verses as: All that is in the heavens and Earth glorifies God, the Sovereign, All-Holy, All-Mighty, All-Wise (62:1). See how the world’s lifeless or sleeping creatures spring to life in the minds of the audience at the sound of glorifies, how they wake, spring up, and begin to extol God by mentioning His Names.

At the sound of: The seven heavens and Earth glorify Him (17:44), the stars in that black sky, each a solid piece of fire, and Earth’s creatures present to the audience the sky like a mouth; and the stars, each like a wisdom-displaying word, a truth-showing light; and Earth like a head with the land and sea, each a tongue; and all animals and plants as words of glorification. If you look at each verse in the present context and from a “modern” viewpoint,[1] ·if you look at it through a superficial veil of familiarity, you will neither see what sort of darkness each verse removes in a sweet melody of miraculousness nor appreciate this aspect of its miraculousness.

If you want to see one of the highest degrees of the Qur’an’s miraculousness, consider the following parable: Imagine a vast, spreading tree hidden under a veil of the Unseen. There is a relationship, harmony, and balance between all its parts, just as there is between the parts of human body. Each part assumes a form and a shape according to the tree’s nature. If someone draws a picture corresponding exactly to that hidden tree, giving each part its exact shape and form, as well as the exact same relationship and proportion as seen in the original, no one can doubt that the artist sees and depicts the hidden tree with an eye penetrating the Unseen.

In the same way, the Qur’an’s explanations of the reality of things cannot be refuted. It explains the Tree of Creation as stretching from the world’s beginning to the Hereafter’s furthest limits, spreading from Earth to the Divine Throne, and from atoms to the sun. It maintains the proportion between all parts to such a degree, and gives each part and fruit such a suitable form that all exacting and truth-seeking scholars have concluded: “What wonders God has willed. May God bless it. Only you, O wise Qur’an, solve the mystery of creation.”

Let’s represent God’s Names and Attributes, as well as His Lordship’s acts, as a great tree of light stretching in time and space to eternity. It includes the actions in an endlessly vast sphere from eternity, as well as the actions in an endlessly vast sphere from He comes between humanity and a person’s heart (8:24), The Splitter of the seed-grain and the date-stone (6:95), and He fashions you in the wombs as He wills (3:6) to And the heavens rolled up in His right hand (39:67), He created the heavens and Earth in 6 days (7:54), and He has subjugated the sun and the moon·(13:5).

The wise Qur’an describes that radiant reality, the truths of those Names and Attributes, as well as of those acts in all of their ramifications and results, so harmoniously and appropriately that no item impedes or invalidates the decree of another. All who have penetrated the reality of things and discovered the hidden truths, and all sages journeying in the Realm of the Inner Dimension of Things, have declared of this description: “Glory be to God. How right, how conformable with reality, how beautiful, how fitting.”

Consider the six pillars of belief, which are like a branch of two mighty trees—the Sphere of Contingency (material existence) and the Sphere of Necessity (Divine Existence). The Qur’an describes all parts of that branch. The arrangement of all parts is so harmonious, balanced, and well-measured that the human mind cannot perceive it; rather, it is astonished at its beauty. The Qur’an has established a beautiful proportion, perfect relationship, and complete balance between the five pillars of Islam (which are like a twig of the branch of belief), between the finest details (e.g., the least of good manners) and the furthest aims, and between the most profound wisdom and the most minor fruits. The perfect order, balance, proportion, and soundness seen in the Shari‘a, which originated from the all-comprehensive Qur’an’s incontrovertible Commandments, as well as the secondary meanings, indications, and allusions of its statements, are an irrefutable, decisive proof and a just, undeniable witness for that proportion, balance, order, and soundness.

Given this, its explanations cannot have issued from anyone’s partial knowledge, particularly an unlettered person. Rather, they issued from an All-Comprehensive Knowledge and are the Word of One Who can see all things together like a single thing and simultaneously observe all truths between two eternities. The verse: Praise be to God Who has sent down unto His servant the Book, and has allowed no crookedness therein·(18:1) concerns this fact.

[1] In other words, after each has spread its light since its revelation, with its content having long since become among the already known things after having long ago changed the heavy darkness of ignorance into daylight by the “sun” of the Qur’an and the light of Islam.