The Book of God must be read...

The Book of God must be read, studied, meditated and well understood, and when so, it merges into real prayer the immediate result of which is getting nearer to beauty and goodnessِto the absolute goodness which is God; and getting more and more a distance from badness and evil. The prayer is a good mount to ride us from darkness to light.

THE END OF PART 20 OF QURA"N [ 638 ] THANKS FOR HELP When his Holiness HAZRAT AYATULLAH-AL-OZMA", NASIR MAKARIM SHIRAZI, in the MARCH 1999, ordered me to start translating an expressive summary of his great work on the Glorious Qura"n, which is named as, ``THE EXAMPLE COMMENTARY'' I took his order for the best of opportunities in my life. I immediately resigned of my office, and got rid of all my jobs, in order to use my full time and power, with love and pleasure, on this sacred work.

Now after three years of a full time work, I offer to my dear readers the fourth volume of the whole work, which is to complete in six volumes altogether. Up to here, half of the whole Qura"n has been translated and published, and it is also found on…