penetrate to the inner meaning of things agree that the whole Qur’an is contained in the Sura al-Fatiha, even, and the Fatiha in the Bismillah. The proof of this fact is the consensus of the scholars who have investigated it.

##### Second Glow

Second Glow: The verses of the Qur’an are comprehensive through their denoting and indicating all the categories of speech and true knowledge and human needs, such as command and prohibition, promise and threat, encouragement and deterring, restraint and guidance, stories and comparisons, the divine ordinances and teachings, the sciences related to the universe, and the laws and conditions of personal life, social life, the life of the heart, spiritual life, and the life of the hereafter. By reason of this, the truth of the saying, “Take whatever you want from the Qur’an for whatever you want” has been so accepted by the people of reality that it has become proverbial among them. The verses of the Qur’an have such comprehensiveness that they may be the cure for every ill and the sustenance for every need. Yes, they have to be like that, for the absolute guide of all the levels of the people of perfection, who continually rise in the degrees of progress, has to possess this property.

##### Third Glow

Third Glow: This is the Qur’an’s miraculously inimitable conciseness. It sometimes happens that the Qur’an mentions the two ends of a long chain in such a way that it shows clearly the whole chain. And sometimes it happens that it includes explicitly, implicitly, figuratively, or allusively in one word many proofs of an assertion. For example, the verse:

And among His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the variations in your tongues and in your colours;(30:22)

by mentioning the beginning and end of the chain of the universe’s creation, which forms a chain of signs and indications of divine unity, the verse shows the second chain. It makes the first chain read it out. Yes, the first degree of the world’s pages which testify to an All-Wise Maker is the origin of the heavens and the earth, their creation. Next is the heavens being adorned with stars and the earth made to rejoice with living beings. Then the change of the seasons through the subjugation of the sun and the moon. Then is the alternation of day and night, and the chain of events within these. And so it goes on as far as the characteristics and distinguishing features on faces and in voices, the most widely spread loci of multiplicity. Thus, since there is an astonishing and wise order in the characteristics of individual faces, which are the furthest from order and most subject to the interference of chance, if it is shown that the pen of a wise craftsman works there, surely the other pages, whose order is clear, will themselves be understood and display their Inscriber. And since the works of art and