whereas for the later generations of this community, the Quran will be made easy, so that even children and non-Arabs will recite it without understanding anything of it.”

I say: A similar statement is well known from Jundub ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bajalī, who said: “We were granted faith before we read the Quran. Then we were granted the Quran, and our faith increased. Yet you approach the Quran before faith, with one of you seeking a means