So return to the poems of the Mukhdaram poets,

and read the letters of the noble Prophet - peace and blessings be upon him - and the letters of our master Umar ibn al-Khattab - may God be pleased with him - until this truth is revealed to you clearly,

for if the speech had come in other than the methods of expression they were accustomed to,

they would have fallen into confusion, and something would have confronted them that they neither recognize nor find comfort in, which would have disturbed their minds and troubled their thoughts.

Then, the purpose is not merely to impart what they do not know, but rather to impart it with repetition and recall time after time.

And this meaning is provided in the non-arranged [speech] in a way that is not provided in the arranged speech (according to the method of textual books).

The reason for choosing new meters and rhymes:

And if we were to ask: Why did the Noble Quran not choose those meters and rhymes known to poets, which are sweeter and more delightful?

we would say: Indeed, delight and sweetness are relative matters, differing according to peoples, countries, minds, and tastes.

And even if we conceded - for the sake of argument - that those are sweeter and more delightful, then the creation of a new style and a new model of meters and rhymes on the tongue of the noble Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him - who was illiterate and neither read nor wrote, is a manifest sign among the signs indicating his prophethood and message.

And had the Quran been revealed upon the meters of poetry and its known rhymes, the thoughts of the disbelievers would have led them to believe that it is poetry from their circulated and known poetry, and they would not have given it great attention nor cared about it.

And it is known that the eloquent ones among masterly poets and proficient writers