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Among the gleams of the Qur’an’s miraculousness, its reiterations and brief
mentions of scientific facts and developments, which are wrongly thought to be a
cause of defects, were discussed in the Fourteenth Droplet of The Nineteenth
Word. Another gleam of the Qur’an’s miraculousness, radiating in its mention of
the Prophets’ miracles, was shown in the Second Station of The Twentieth Word.
You will find many other gleams discussed in other Words and my Arabic
treatises. However, I will add here another aspect.
Just as the Prophets’ miracles exhibit an aspect of the Qur’an’s
miraculousness, the Qur’an with all its miracles is a miracle of Muhammad, and
all of his miracles constitute a miracle of the Qur’an. They demonstrate its
Divine authorship, through which each word becomes a miracle, for just like a
seed, each word may contain a tree of truths; just like a heart’s center, it may
have relations with all parts of a mighty truth. Since it depends on an
All‑Encompassing Knowledge and Infinite Will, it may be interrelated by means of
its letters, position, meaning, connotations, and in its entirety, with
countless other things. This is why specialists in the science of letters assert
that each letter of the Qur’an contains as many mysteries as may cover a page,
and prove it to those who have expert knowledge in that science.
Consider all the Lights, Rays, Gleams, Radiances, and Beams discussed so far,
and see how the claim at the beginning becomes a decisive, undeniable
conclusion. In other words, this entire treatise decisively proclaims the truth
of: Say: “If humanity and jinn banded together to produce the like of this
Qur’an, they would never produce its like, even though they backed one another”
(17:88).
Glory be to You. We have no knowledge save what You have taught us.
You are the All‑Knowing, All‑Wise. Our Lord, do not reproach us if we forget
or make mistakes. Lord, open my breast and make my task easy. Loosen a knot
on my tongue so that they can understand my words.
O God, bestow blessings and peace; the best, finest, most pleasant and
most manifest, purest, most gracious and most abundant, mightiest, greatest,
most honored and most elevated, most flourishing and most prosperous, and
the most subtle of your blessings; the most sufficient and most abundant,
most ample and most exalted, most sublime and most constant of Your peace;
and as blessing, peace, mercy, good pleasure, forgiving, and pardoning, in
increase and continuity along with the rains from the clouds as favors of
Your Generosity and Munificence, and in continuos multiplication along with
the fine and exquisite bounties of Your Generosity and Benevolence;
eternally, without beginning or end, along with Your eternity—on Your
servant, Your beloved, and Your Messenger, Muhammad, the best of Your
creatures, the brightest light, the clearest and most decisive proof, the
most profound ocean, the most comprehensive light, having shone grace and
overwhelming majesty and superior perfection; bestow blessings on him
through the grandeur of Your Being, and blessings on his Family and
Companions through which You may forgive our sins, open our breasts, purify
our hearts, uplift our spirits, bless us, refine our memories and thoughts,
remove the filth from our souls, cure us of our diseases, and open the locks
on our hearts.
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