analogical reasoning,” they are asked: “Where do you find in analogical reasoning that Allah’s words, ‘I created with My two Hands’ [Sād 75], can only mean ‘My two favors’? And how can reason determine that a particular expression must be interpreted in a particular way?”

Yet we find that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has said in His Book, proclaimed by His truthful Prophet:

“We never sent a messenger except in the language of his people.” [Ibrāhīm 4]

He, Glorified be He, also says:

“Do they not reflect upon the Quran?” [al-Nisā’ 82]

Had the Quran not been in the language of the Arabs, they could not have reflected upon it