The Quran

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وَكَذٰلِكَ أَنزَلناهُ قُرآنًا عَرَبِيًّا وَصَرَّفنا فيهِ مِنَ الوَعيدِ لَعَلَّهُم يَتَّقونَ أَو يُحدِثُ لَهُم ذِكرًا

Muhammad Asad

AND THUS¹ have We bestowed from on high this [divine writ] as a discourse in the Arabic tongue,² and have given therein many facets to all manner of warnings, so that men might remain conscious of Us, or that it give rise to a new awareness in them.³

As in verse 99 above - with which this passage connects - the adverb kadhalika ("thus") refers to the method and purpose of the Qur'an.
Lit., "as an Arabic discourse (qur'an)". See, in particular, 12:2, 13:37, 14:4 and 19:97, as well as the corresponding notes.
Lit., "so that they might be [or "remain"] God-conscious, or that it create for them a remembrance", i.e., of God. The verb ahdatha signifies "he brought (something] into existence", i.e., newly or for the first time, while the noun dhikr denotes "remembrance" as well as the "presence [of something] in the mind" (Raghib), i.e., awareness.