In a short sūrah He repeats saying...

In a short sūrah He repeats saying: “ We have made the Qur'an easy for remembrance, but is there any one who will mind?” [^2] He says: “ …We have revealed to you the Reminder that you may explain to mankind what has been sent down to them and that haply they will reflect,” [^3] And “ A Book We have revealed to you, blessed, that they may ponder over its āyahs and that men of understanding may remember,” [^4] And many other noble āyah s, to restate which would be lengthy.

This opinion of ours is not intended to criticize the tafsīr s, as every one of their authors has taken great pains and striven hard in order to write a noble book, so, may Allah bless them and grant them good reward.

We intend just to say that the door must be open before the people to be benefited by this Book, which is the only one leading to Allah and the only one for educating the souls with the divine disciplines and laws, the greatest means of connection between the created and Creator, the strong handle and the firm cord of adhering to the Might of Divinity.

Let the scholars and commentators write Persian and Arabic exegeses with the aim of explaining the gnostic and ethical teachings and instructions, showing the way of connecting the created to the Creator, and expounding the migration from Dār al-Ghurūr (the House of Conceit = this world) to the Dār as-Surūr wal-Khulūd (the House of Pleasure and Eternity)], according to what has been deposited in this noble Book.

The author of this Book is not as-Sakkākī or the Shaykh, whose objectives were eloquence and rhetoric, nor is He Sībawayh or al-Khalīl, whose objectives were grammar and syntax, nor is He al-Mas'ūdī or Ibn Khillakān, whose objectives revolved around the history of the world.

This Book is not like the stick of Moses or his White Hand, nor is it like the breath of Christ who could raise the dead (by Allah's permission), to have been sent down only as a miracle to prove the true prophethood of the Holy Prophet. This divine Book is, as a matter of fact, a book of enlivening the hearts with the everlasting life of divine knowledge. It is Allah's Book that invites to divine affairs.