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{ قُل لَّوْ كَانَ ٱلْبَحْرُ مِدَاداً لِّكَلِمَاتِ رَبِّي لَنَفِدَ ٱلْبَحْرُ قَبْلَ أَن تَنفَدَ كَلِمَاتُ رَبِّي وَلَوْ جِئْنَا بِمِثْلِهِ مَدَداً }

Say, ‘If the ocean were ink for [writing] the words of my Lord, it would run dry…’That is, in recording the knowledge of my Lord and His wonders.Then he said:His Book is part of His knowledge, and if a servant was given a thousand ways of understandingeach letter of the Qurʾān, he would not reach the end of God’s knowledge within it. This is because it is His pre-eternal speech, and His speech is one of His attributes, and there is no end to any of His attributes just as He has no end. All that can be comprehended of His speech is as much as He opens to the hearts of His friends.His words:


Tafsīr al-Tustarī, trans. Annabel Keeler and Ali Keeler
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