19إِنَّهُ لَقَولُ رَسولٍ كَريمٍMuhammad Asadbehold, this [divine writ] is indeed the [inspired] word of a noble apostle,1By "calling to witness" certain natural phenomena which are familiar to man because of their permanent recurrence, attention is drawn to the fact that what we call "laws of nature" are but the observable elements of God's plan of creation - a plan in which His revelations (referred to in this and the subsequent verses) play a decisive role: and so, by implication, the divine writ granted to Muhammad is as intrinsically "natural" as any other phenomenon, concrete or abstract, in the realm of God's creation.