The fourth chapter

In the arrangement of the topics of the Noble Quran

The wisdom of the call and the presentation:

If someone raised the question:

Why was the arrangement not observed in explaining the topics of the Great Quran?

And why were they scattered thus as a scattering?

Why then did he not start - for example - by explaining the bounties of God - Most High -

until when He fulfilled them their due right, He proceeded in explaining the days of God - Most High -?

Then if He completed them and perfected them, He started with the argument with the disbelievers and others besides them?

So we say:

Indeed, the power of God - Blessed and Most High - even though it was encompassing all possible things,

but the decisive word in this chapter is only for wisdom

(since it is a wise book from the presence of One Wise and Acquainted)

And wisdom is matching those sent to them in language and style of expression,

and to this meaning came the indication in the saying of - Most High -:

{They would have said, 'Why were its verses not detailed? Is it a non-Arabic [recitation] and an Arab [messenger]?'} etc. the verse.

And there was not with the Arabs until the time of the revelation of the Wise Quran,

a book, neither a divine book nor a human book.

The style of the ancients, not the invention of the later compilers:

And indeed the arrangement which the later authors and compilers invented

was not known by the early Arabs,

and if you are in doubt of this,