ennobled you with the rank of prophethood, and tied all the lines of prophethood to your line and made it the chief of all lineages among humankind. It has made your family a cell of instruction and guidance in the divine sciences and dominical wisdom, and united in you through that knowledge and wisdom, prosperous worldly dominion and the eternal happiness of the hereafter. And it has made you both a mighty ruler of Egypt, and a high prophet, and a wise guide, and has distinguished you and your forefathers with knowledge and wisdom.” It enumerates these divine bounties, then it says: “Indeed, your Sustainer is All-Knowing, All-Wise.” “His dominicality and wisdom require that He made manifest in you and your fathers and forefathers the divine names of All-Knowing and All-Wise.” Thus, it sums up those detailed bounties with this summary.

And, for example:

O God! Lord of All Dominion, You give power to whom You will.(3:26)

This verse shows Almighty God’s disposals in humankind’s social life in such a way that it ties glory and abasement, poverty and riches directly to Almighty God’s will and wish. It means, “Even the disposals most dispersed through the levels of multiplicity occur through divine will and determining. Chance and coincidence cannot interfere.” After making this statement, it mentions the most important matter in human life, sustenance. This verse proves with one or two introductory phrases that man’s sustenance is sent directly from the True Provider’s treasury of mercy. It is like this: “Your sustenance is tied to the earth’s life, and the earth’s being raised to life looks to the spring, and the spring is in the hands of the One Who subjugates the sun and the moon, and alternates the night and the day. In which case, only the One Who fills the face of the earth with all the fruits can give an apple to someone as true sustenance. Only He can be his true Provider.” Then it says:

And You give sustenance to whom You please without measure.(3:27)

It summarizes and proves those detailed acts in this sentence. That is, “The One Who gives you unlimited sustenance is He Who performs these acts.”

#### Fourth Point of Eloquence

FOURTH POINT OF ELOQUENCE: It sometimes happens that the Qur’an mentions the divine creatures with a particular arrangement of the sentence, then by showing that the creatures are within an order and balance and that they are its fruits, affords a sort of transparency and brilliance. The transparency and brilliance then show the divine names, the manifestation of which obtains through that mirror-like arrangement. It is as though the above-mentioned creatures are words, and the names are their meanings, or the seeds of the fruits, or their essences. For example: