one addressed in the name of humankind, indeed of all beings, and the most extensive station of all humankind’s guidance in all the centuries, and from the station of the elevated comprehensive expositions of the divine laws concerning the regulation of this world and the hereafter, the heavens and the earth, pre-eternity and post-eternity, and the dominicality of the Creator of the universe, and of all beings, this Address displays such an elevated miraculousness and comprehensiveness that both its apparent and simple level, which flatters the simple minds of ordinary people, the most numerous group the Qur’an addresses, and its highest level, grants a full share to all. But it is as though, in addressing every age and every class of people, not with only one share of a story or one moral of a historical tale, but with the elements of a universal principle, it is newly revealed. Particularly its often repeated threats of “the wrongdoers, the wrongdoers,” and its severe expositions of the calamities coming from the heavens and the earth, – visited as retribution on the ‘Ad and Thamud peoples and on Pharaoh in punishment for their wrongdoing – with these it draws attention to the unequalled wrongs of this century, and through the salvation of such prophets as Abraham (UWP) and Moses (UWP) gives consolation to the oppressed believers.

Indeed, all past time and the departed ages and centuries, which in the view of heedlessness and misguidance appear to be a fearsome place of non-existence and a grievous, ruined graveyard, the Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition presents to every century and class of people as living instructive pages, strange worlds, living and endowed with spirits, and existent realms of the Sustainer which are connected with us; with an elevated miraculousness, it sometimes conveys us to those times, and sometimes brings those times to us. Infusing with life the universe, which in the view of misguidance is lifeless, wretched, dead, and a limitless wasteland revolving amid separation and decline, with the same miraculousness this same Qur’an of Mighty Stature raises to life those dead beings, makes them converse with one another as officials charged with duties and hasten to the assistance of one another; it instructs mankind, the jinn, and the angels in true, luminous, and pleasurable wisdom.

For sure, then, it gains sacred distinctions, such as each of its letters yielding ten merits, and sometimes a hundred, a thousand, or thousands of merits; and if all men and jinn were to gather together, their being unable to produce the like of it; and its speaking completely appropriately with all mankind and all beings; and its always being inscribed with eagerness in the hearts of millions of hafizes; and its not causing weariness through its