In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

The Most Merciful. ∗ It is He who has taught the Qur'an. ∗ He has created man. ∗ He has taught him speech [and intelligence] (Q 55:1-4).

We offer Him praise and thanks, and seek His blessings for His Prophet, whom He sent as a mercy to all the worlds, and through its signs and indications made his greatest miracle encompass the universe's truths, so to remain permanently through the passage of time till the Day of Requital, and for all his Family and Companions.

SO KNOW firstly that our aim from these indications is a commentary on a number of the symbols of the Qur'an's ordering and composition (naẓm), for one aspect of its miraculousness is manifested in its composition. Indeed, the embroidery of its composition is its most brilliant [form on miraculousness.

And know secondly that the fundamental aims of the Qur'an and its essential elements are fourfold: divine unity (al-tawḥīd), prophethood (al-nubūwwa), the resurrection of the dead (al-ḥashr), and justice (al-'adāla). For when mankind, like a successive caravan and procession, departs from the valleys of the past and its lands, travels in the deserts of existence and life and proceeds towards the heights of the future, facing towards its gardens, events shake men and the universe turns its face towards them. It is as though the government of creation sends natural philosophy (fann al-ḥikma) to interrogate and question them, saying: "O mankind! Where are you from? Where are you going? What are you doing? Who is your ruler? And who is your spokesman?" At one time during this conversation there stood up one from among humankind — as did those like him of the prophets with authority the lord of humankind Muhammad al-Hashimi (UWBP), and said through the tongue of the Qur'an: "O philosophy! All of us beings we come forth emerging by the power of the Pre-Eternal Ruler from the darkness of non-existence to the light of existence, and all of us, we sons of Adam, are sent as officials privileged above our brother creatures in bearing the Trust; we are on our way, journeying on the road of the resurrection towards eternal felicity; and we are busy in this world in preparation of that felicity and the development of the potentialities that are our capital; and I am their master and their spokesman. Here it is before you, my manifesto, which is the word of the Pre-Eternal Ruler on which sparkles the stamp of miraculousness." Thus, the answerer of these questions, the correct answer, is none other than the Qur'an, that book — the answer is those four fundamental principles.

Just as the four aims are seen in the whole of the Qur'an, so they are manifested in every sura; indeed, they are hinted at in every phrase or alluded to