Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 495
30 SEPTEMBER 1905 Faizi's commentary is couched in highly eloquent and fluent language because it is written entirely without using any words containing letters of the alphabet that have dots. I replied to this stating that using only letters with no dots is nothing lofty. It is a kind of gratuitous formality, and involving oneself in such needless formalities is a frivolous matter. The glorious character of the believers is this: وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ عَنِ اللَّغْوِ مُعْرِضُونَ ) Meaning that, believers are those who shun all that is vain. If you consider only the use of words without a dot to be a mira- cle, then the Holy Quran also contains a dot-less² miracle and it is the following: لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ 3 It does not have any word of ريب raib-doubt] in it. That, indeed, is its miracle. لَا يَأْتِيهِ الْبَاطِلُ What greater beauty can there be than this? 495 1. Sūrah al-Mu'minūn, 23:4 [Publisher] 2. The Word of God should be taken as undotted in the sense that it is free from and beyond the 'stains' of vain talk, falsehood, and absurdities. Its fluency and eloquence is a priceless gem from which the world benefits (Barāhīn- e-Ahmadiyya Part IV, p. 285, ed. 2016, Islam International Publications). [Publisher] 3. Surah al-Baqarah, 2:3 [Publisher] 4. Falsehood cannot approach it (Sūrah Hā Mīm as-Sajdah, 41:43). [Publisher]