than a single blast, when lo! they will all be brought up before Us!(36:53)

If you want to see and appreciate how, like shining stars, each of the Qur’an’s verses scatters the darkness of unbelief by spreading the light of miraculousness and guidance, imagine yourself in the Age of Ignorance and desert of savagery where everything was enveloped in veils of lifelessness and nature amid the darkness of ignorance and heedlessness. Then suddenly from the elevated tongue of the Qur’an, you hear verses like:

Whatever is in the heavens and earth declares the praises and glory of God, the Sovereign, the Most Holy One, the Mighty, the Wise.(62:1)

See how those dead or sleeping creatures of the world spring to life in the minds of those listening at the sound of “declares the praises and glory,” how they awake, spring up, and mention God’s names! And at the sound of,

The seven heavens and the earth and all within them extol and glorify Him,(17:44)

the stars in those black skies, all lifeless pieces of fire, and the wretched creatures on the face of the earth, present the following view to those listening: the sky appears as a mouth and the stars each as wisdom-displaying words and truth-uttering lights. The earth appears as a head, the land and sea as tongues, and all animals and plants as words of glorification. You will otherwise not appreciate the fine points and pleasure at looking from this time to that. For if when you consider its verses, you see them as having scattered their light since that time, becoming like universally accepted knowledge with the passage of time, and as shining with the other lights of Islam, and taking their colour from the sun of the Qur’an, or if you look at them through a superficial, simple veil of familiarity, you will not truly see the darkness each verse scatters or how sweet is the recital of its miraculousness; you will not appreciate this sort of miraculousness among its many varieties. If you want to understand one of the highest degrees of the Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition’s miraculousness, listen to the following comparison:

Let us imagine an extremely strange, vast, and spreading tree which is concealed beneath a veil of the unseen and hidden in a level of concealment. It is clear that there has to be a relationship, harmony, and balance between a tree and all its members for instance its branches, fruits, leaves, and blossom, the same as between the human members. Each of its parts assumes a form and is given a shape in accordance with the tree’s nature.