51۞ وَلَقَد وَصَّلنا لَهُمُ القَولَ لَعَلَّهُم يَتَذَكَّرونَMuhammad AsadNOW, INDEED, We have caused this word [of Ours] to reach mankind step by step,1 so that they might [learn to] keep it in mind.Lit., "We have caused this word to reach them gradually": this meaning is implied in the verbal form wassalna; which - like the grammatically identical form nazzalna - points to the gradual, step-by-step revelation of the Qur'an during the twenty-three years of Muhammad's prophetic ministry.