The Promised Messiah (as) said: “Last night I received the following revelation:
مَنَعَہٗ مَانِعٌ مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ
Meaning, no one will be able to compete with you in this contest of writing commentary of the Holy Quran. God has seized the ability and knowledge of the opponents. Although the pronoun in this revelation is singular, masculine, third person, thus referring to a single individual, i.e. Mehr Shah, I have been made to understand by God that in the person of this sole individual, all of my opponents are implied, and so only one has been stated explicitly. The purpose is to establish this miracle as being the most supreme and greatest of all others, and to demonstrate that even if all of my opponents became one, and countless people came together in an attempt to challenge me in writing commentary, they would never be able to do so.”
The Promised Messiah (as) said: “A human being can do what is in the power of human beings. Our opponents are also human; they are known as scholars and clerics. Why then are they unable to accomplish what I have done? This very fact is a miracle. If a Prophet were to throw a staff on the ground and say that no one except for him would be able to lift it, this too would be a miracle. And then, the challenge of writing commentary of the Holy Quran is a miracle of academic nature.”
The Promised Messiah (as) said: “I began writing this commentary in the blessed month of Ramadan, just as the revelation of the Holy Quran also began in this month, and I expect that it shall be completed in a time between the two Eids. As Sheikh Sa’di has said in respect of someone:
بروز ہمایوں و سال سعید
بتاریخ فر خ میان دو عید
A blessed era and a blessed year;
On a blessed date between the two Eids.”
The Promised Messiah (as) said: “In an attempt to challenge the miraculous nature of the Holy Quran in respect of its eloquence and articulacy, Reverend Pfander once presented various passages of Hariri, Abul-Fadl and other English books. This was quite a while ago. Even then, I thought to myself that he was being deceptive. Firstly, none of these writers have ever claimed that their words are unparalleled; in fact, they have always admitted their own inability and praised the Holy Quran. Secondly, in the works of such authors, meaning is always subordinated to the choice of words. They are nothing but words joined together. For the purpose of rhyme, a writer looks for one word to complement the other, and wisdom and meaning is ignored in the text. However, the Holy Quran ensures that the truth and wisdom are never compromised. The fact of the matter is that to state words of truth and wisdom and also maintain rhyme in such words is a feat that is possible only through divine succour. Otherwise, the words of human beings are like the examples we see in the works of Hariri and others.”