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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Fifty Lessons on Principles of Belief for Youths Lesson 26: A Glance at the Miracle of the Qur’an What do the letters stand for at the beginning of some of the Surahs? We see that the beginning verse of many of the surahs of the Holy Qur’an are letters, like alif lam mim, alif lam mim rah and ya sin.

One of the secrets and the philosophy behind these letters, according to some of the Islamic traditions, is that God is showing the great miraculous and eternal quality of the Holy Qur’an. That is, how can the Qur’an make use of these simple letters and create such words which are greater than the letters while every child can repeat them and in truth the appearance of this important fact is one of the most important miraculous issues. Now this question arises.

From what point of view is the Qur’an a miracle? It is only because of its simplicity and tone, or, in other words, the sweetness and clarity of its expression and the extraordinary influence of it or is it because of something else? The truth is that whenever we look at the Holy Qur’an from different points of view, each one presents another image of its miracle. For instance: Eloquence: The sweetness and extraordinary attraction of the miraculous words and concepts.

The expression of the highest content from every point of view, especially beliefs which lack any sort of superstition. Scientific miracle: That is, the uncovering of issues which human beings during that age had not come to know. To foresee and speak directly and accurately about some future events (the hidden news of the Qur’an). The lack of contradiction, disputes, disorderliness and others. A discussion about each of these five areas is very extensive but we will discuss some of them here.

Eloquence We know that every discussion has to aspects: letter and content. Whatever letters and words of beauty contain the necessary unity and are free of complicated and complex expression and also the sentence structure is such that they are exactly what one desires to hear and they attract the heart, that expression is called eloquence.

The Qur’an has both of these two qualities to the highest extent possible so that to date no one has been able to bring verses and surahs with such attraction, sweetness and tone.