28قُرآنًا عَرَبِيًّا غَيرَ ذي عِوَجٍ لَعَلَّهُم يَتَّقونَMuhammad Asadas a discourse in the Arabic tongue, free of all deviousness,1 so that they might become conscious of God.Lit., "without any deviousness ('iwaj)", i.e., which could obscure its meaning: see note 1 on 18:1; where this term occurs in a slightly different phrasing. As regards the stress on the formulation of this divine writ "in the Arabic tongue", see 12:2, 13:37, 14:4 and 41:44, as well as the corresponding notes.