Quranic Harmony in Names, Attributes, Faith, and Sharia

وَ لِلّٰهِ الْمَثَلُ الْاَعْلٰى "And Allah's is the highest similitude" (16:60) - and there is no error in the comparison - let us represent the divine names and attributes, and dominical acts and deeds as a Tuba tree of light, the extent of whose grandeur stretches from pre-eternity to post-eternity, and the limits of whose vastness spread through infinite, endless space, and encompass it, and the compass of whose deeds extend from,

يَحُولُ بَيْنَ الْمَرْءِ وَقَلْبِه۪ ٭ فَالِقُ الْحَبِّ وَالنَّوٰى ٭ هُوَ الَّذ۪ى يُصَوِّرُكُمْ فِى الْاَرْحَامِ كَيْفَ يَشَٓاءُ

It is Allah Who splits the seed-grain and date-stone (6:95), and, Comes between man and his heart (8:24), and, It is He Who shapes you in the wombs as He wishes (3:6),

to,

وَالسَّمٰوَاتُ مَطْوِيَّاتٌ بِيَم۪ينِه۪ ٭ خَلَقَ السَّمٰوَاتِ وَالْاَرْضَ ف۪ى سِتَّةِ اَيَّامٍ ٭ وَ سَخَّرَ الشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ

Who created the heavens and the earth in six days (7:54, etc.), and, And the heavens rolled up in His right hand (39:67), and, He has subjected the sun and the moon (13:2, etc.).

The All-Wise Qur'an has described that luminous reality, the truths of those names and attributes, and acts and deeds, together with all their branches and twigs and aims and fruits in a way so harmonious, so fitting for one another, so appropriate for one another, without marring one another or spoiling the decree of one another, or their being remote from one another, that all those who have discerned the reality of things and penetrated the mysteries, and all the wise and the sage who have journeyed in the realm of the inner dimension of things, have declared: "Glory be to Allah!" in the face of that Discriminating Exposition, and have affirmed it, saying: "How right, how conformable with reality, how fine, how worthy!"

Take, for example, the six pillars of belief, which resemble a single branch of those two mighty trees which look to the entire sphere of contingency and sphere of necessity: it depicts all the branches and boughs of those pillars - even the farthest fruits and flowers - observing such a harmony and proportion between them, and describes them in a manner so balanced, and illustrates them a way so symmetrical that the human mind is powerless to perceive it and stands astonished at its beauty. And the proof that a beauty of proportion and perfect relation and complete balance have been preserved between the five pillars of Islam, which are like one twig of the branch of belief, down to the finest details, smallest point of conduct, furthest aims, most profound wisdom, and most insignificant fruits, is the perfect order and balance and beauty of proportion and soundness of the Greater Shari'a of Islam, which has emerged from the decisive statements, senses, indications, and allusions of the comprehensive Qur'an; they form an irrefutable and decisive proof and just witness that cannot be doubted. This means that the expositions of the Qur'an cannot be attributed to man's partial knowledge, and particularly to the knowledge of someone unlettered. They rest rather on a comprehensive knowledge and are the word of One able to see all things together and observe in one moment all truths between pre-eternity and post-eternity. The verse:

اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ الَّذ۪ٓى اَنْزَلَ عَلٰى عَبْدِهِ الْكِتَابَ وَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ لَهُ عِوَجًا

Praise be to Allah, Who has revealed to His servant the Book, and has allowed no crookedness therein. (18:1)

concerns this fact.

اَللّٰهُمَّ يَا مُنْزِلَ الْقُرْاٰنِ بِحَقِّ الْقُرْاٰنِ وَ بِحَقِّ مَنْ اُنْزِلَ عَلَيْهِ الْقُرْاٰنُ نَوِّرْ قُلُوبَنَا وَ قُبُورَنَا بِنُورِ الْا۪يمَانِ وَ الْقُرْاٰنِ اٰم۪ينَ يَا مُسْتَعَانُ

O Allah! O Revealer of the Qur'an! For the sake of the Qur'an and for the sake of the one to whom You revealed the Qur'an, illuminate our hearts and our graves with the light of belief and the Qur'an. Amen. O One from Whom help is sought!