Chapter Five

On the exterior and interior of the Quran

It has been reported in the noble hadith

"The Quran was revealed upon seven letters,"

"for every verse from them is an exterior and an interior, and for every limit is a rising place."

So it should be known that the exterior of these five sciences

is what is called the meaning of the speech and its explicit wording.

As for its interior regarding the chapter of reminding of Allah's bounties:

it is pondering and reflecting upon the bounties of Allah, His favors, and the signs of His power,

and watching Him - majestic is His status -.

And the interior of reminding by the days of Allah - exalted is He -:

is knowing the basis of praise, blame, reward, and punishment

from those stories that occur in it,

and taking admonition by them and deriving lessons and morals from them.

And the interior of reminding with Paradise and the Fire:

is the emergence of fear and hope, bringing them to mind and visualizing them until it is as if they are seen with the eye.

And the interior of the verses of rulings:

is deriving the subtle hidden rulings through implications and allusions.

And the interior of the Quranic disputation with the astray and false sects:

is recognizing the reality of those vile and atrocious matters with which they were described, and attaching their counterparts and similars to them.

As for the rising place of the exterior:

it is knowing the language of the Arabs and the traditions pertaining to the science of exegesis.

And what is meant by the rising place of the interior is:

sharpness of mind, its subtlety, uprightness of understanding, and its correctness,

along with the light of the interior and tranquility of the heart.

And Allah knows best.