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Sura 19
Aya 97
97
فَإِنَّما يَسَّرناهُ بِلِسانِكَ لِتُبَشِّرَ بِهِ المُتَّقينَ وَتُنذِرَ بِهِ قَومًا لُدًّا

Muhammad Asad

and only to this end have We made this [divine writ] easy to understand, in thine own tongue, [O Prophet,]1 so that thou might convey thereby a glad tiding to the God-conscious, and warn thereby those who are given to [futile] contention:
  • Since man is incapable of understanding the "word" of God as such, it has always been revealed to him in his own, human tongue (cf. 14:4 - "never have We sent forth any apostle otherwise than [with a message] in his own people's tongue"), and has always been expounded in concepts accessible to the human mind: hence the reference to the Prophet's revelations as "brought down upon thy heart" (2:97), or "[divine inspiration] has alighted with it upon thy heart" (26:193-194).