frequent and numerous repetitions; and despite its many obscure passages and sentences, its being settled perfectly in the delicate, simple heads of children; and its being as agreeable as Zamzam water in the ears of the sick, the dying, and those distressed by a few words; and its gaining for its students happiness in this world and the next.

Its smoothness of style, which, observing exactly its interpreter’s being unlettered, allows for no bombast, artificiality, or affectedness, and its descending directly from the heavens, demonstrate a fine miraculousness. So too it shows a fine miraculousness in the grace and guidance of flattering the simple minds of ordinary people, the most numerous of the classes of men, through the condescension in its expression and mostly opening the clearest and most evident pages such as the heavens and the earth, and teaching the wondrous miracles of power and meaningful lines of wisdom beneath those commonplace things.

It makes known too that it is also a book of prayer and summons, of invocation and divine unity, which require repetition. For it demonstrates a sort of miraculousness by making understood in a single sentence and a single story through its agreeable repetitions, numerous different meanings to numerous different classes of people. Similarly, it demonstrates a sort of miraculousness by making known that minor, unimportant things in ordinary, commonplace events are within its compassionate view and the sphere of its will and regulation. For it attaches importance to even minor events involving the Companions of the Prophet (UWBP) when Islam was being established and the Shari‘a was being codified, showing those minor events to be general and universal principles which would produce most important fruits, as though they were seeds.

With regard to repetition being necessary due to the repetition of need, the repetition of certain verses is not a fault, for as the answers to numerous repeated questions over a period of twenty years, they instruct numerous different levels of people. Indeed, it is most powerful miraculousness and most elevated eloquence to repeat sentences so powerful they produce thousands of results and verses resulting from countless evidences. For they describe an infinite, awesome, all-embracing revolution that by destroying utterly the vast universe and transforming it at Doomsday, will remove this world and found the mighty hereafter in its place, and will prove that all particulars and universals from atoms to the stars are in the hand and under the disposal of a single Being, and will show the divine wrath and dominical anger – on account of the result of the universe’s creation – at mankind’s wrongdoing, which brings to anger the earth and the heavens and the elements. Such repetition demonstrates an