So see the wealth and riches of the Holy Qur’an in regard to the knowledge, wisdom, and cognizance of God, and the poverty and bankruptcy of philosophy regarding learning, instruction, and knowledge of the Maker! See them and take a lesson!

It is because of this that the All-Wise Qur’an is free of the fancies of poetry, because it contains infinite brilliant, elevated truths. Another reason the Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition is not in verse, despite its composition and orderedness, which are so perfect as to be inimitable, and its expounding with its well-ordered styles the order and art of the book of the universe, is this: by not entering under the restrictions of metre, each star of its verses can be a sort of centre to the most of the other verses, and be a brother to them, and each can form a connecting line with the verses within the sphere encompassing it in order to be a bond in the relationships which exist between them. It is as if every single verse has an eye which looks to most of the other verses and a face which is turned towards them. Thousands of Qur’ans are present within the Qur’an, each of which it offers to followers of the different paths. As is described in the Twenty-Fifth Word, within Sura al-Ikhlas is a treasury of knowledge about divine unity comprising thirty-six Sura al-Ikhlas’s and formed of a compound of six phrases, each winged. Indeed, like the apparently unordered stars in the sky, each is unrestricted and as a sort of centre extends a connecting line to all the stars in the area surrounding it, indicating the hidden relation between beings. It is as if, like the stars of verses, each single star has an eye which looks to all stars and a face which is turned to them. See then the perfect order within the apparent lack of order and take a lesson! Understand one meaning of the verse,

We have not instructed [the Prophet] in poetry, nor is it meet for him!(36:69)

Understand from it also that the mark of poetry is to adorn insignificant and dull facts with big, shining images and fancies, to make them attractive. Whereas the truths of the Qur’an are so great, elevated, shining and brilliant, that even the greatest and most brilliant imaginings are dull and insignificant in comparison. Innumerable truths like the following verses testify to this. For example:

The Day that We roll up the heavens like a scroll rolled up for books [completed].(21:104) ∗ He draws the night as a veil over the day, each seeking the other in rapid succession.(7:54) ∗ It will be no more