The explanation of the linguistic grammarians:

And a group was busy with clarifying the language of the Quran and its parsing

and its sentences and vocabulary, and they cited many proofs from

the speech of the Arabs in every chapter of the chapters,

and this is the method of the linguistic grammarians.

[The explanation of the brilliant literati:]

And a group turned to exhausting speech in

subtleties and witty points of meanings and rhetoric,

and they gave speech its due and brought verses of eloquence

and wonders of rhetoric, and this is the path of the brilliant literati.

Explanation of the skilled reciters:

And some of them cared about narrating the transmitted readings

from their sheikhs in the noble Quran,

and they did not leave subtle nor majestic in

this chapter except they brought it, and this is

the attribute of the skilled reciters.

[Explanation of the devout Sufis:]

And men cared for clarifying the subtleties of the science of conduct

and the science of realities with the slightest linguistic relation

to the noble verses, and this is the path of the devout Sufis.

And in summary it is a vast field, and the intention of

every Muslim relates to making understood the meanings of the Quran

noble and its demands, and indeed each of them dove into

an art from