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vi. Speech
He - the Most High - speaks, commanding, forbidding, promising, and threatening, with a speech from
eternity, ancient, and self-existing.
Unlike the speech of the creation, it is not a sound which is caused through the passage of air or
the
friction of bodies; nor is it a letter which is enunciated through the opening and closing of lips
and the
movement of the tongue.
And that the Koran, the original Torah, the original Gospel of Jesus, and the original Psalms are
His
Books sent down upon His Messengers, peace be upon them.
The Koran is read by tongues, written in books, and remembered in the heart, yet it is, nevertheless
ancient, subsisting in the Essence of Allah, not subject to division and or separation through its
transmission to the heart and paper [by this he meant that the movement of the reciter's tongue
He - the Most High - speaks, commanding, forbidding, promising, and threatening, with a speech from
eternity, ancient, and self-existing.
Unlike the speech of the creation, it is not a sound which is caused through the passage of air or
the
friction of bodies; nor is it a letter which is enunciated through the opening and closing of lips
and the
movement of the tongue.
And that the Koran, the original Torah, the original Gospel of Jesus, and the original Psalms are
His
Books sent down upon His Messengers, peace be upon them.
The Koran is read by tongues, written in books, and remembered in the heart, yet it is, nevertheless
ancient, subsisting in the Essence of Allah, not subject to division and or separation through its
transmission to the heart and paper [by this he meant that the movement of the reciter's tongue