You can continue in the same way.

A further example:

Alif. Lam. Mim. ∗ This is the Book about which there is no doubt, a guidance for those who fear God.(2:1-2)

Each of these four phrases has two meanings. With one meaning each is a proof of the other phrases, with the other, it is their result. From the sixteen threads of their relationships, a miraculously ordered embroidery is wrought. It is described thus in Isharat al-I‘jaz. Also, as is explained in the Thirteenth Word, it is as though all the Qur’an’s verses have eyes that see most of the other verses and faces that look to them, so that each extends to the others the immaterial threads of relationship; each weaves an inimitable embroidery. From beginning to end Isharat al-I‘jaz expounds this beauty and eloquence of the ordering and composition.

##### Second Point

Second Point: This is the wonderful eloquence in its meaning. Consider this example, which is explained in the Thirteenth Word. For example, if you want to understand the eloquence of the verse,

All that is in the heavens and on the earth extols and glorifies God, for He is the Tremendous, the Wise,(57:1; 59:1; 61:1)

imagine yourself in the Age of Ignorance in the deserts of barbarism before the light of the Qur’an. Then, at a time everything is swathed in the darkness of ignorance and heedlessness and enveloped in the lifeless veils of nature, you hear verses from the heavenly tongue of the Qur’an like:

All that is in the heavens and on the earth extols and glorifies God,

or,

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

Now look! See how the dead or sleeping creatures in the world are raised to life in the minds of listeners at the sound of “extols and glorifies Him”; how they become conscious and rise up and recite God’s names. And how at the cry and light of “extols and glorifies Him” the stars, which had been lifeless lumps of fire in the black skies, all appear in the view of those who hear it to be wisdom-displaying words in the mouth of the sky and truth-pronouncing lights. The earth, too, rather than being a desolate wasteland is seen to be a head with the land and sea as tongues, and animals and plants as words of glorification and praise.

Now consider this example, which is proved in the Fifteenth Word. Listen to these verses. What do they say?

O you company of jinn and men! If you can pass beyond the regions