وأين نسبة ذلك من الصّحابة فيما كتبوه فاتّبع ذلك وأثبت رسما ونبّه العلماء بالرّسم على مواضعه. ولا تلتفتنّ في ذلك إلى ما يزعمه بعض المغفّلين من أنّهم كانوا محكمين لصناعة الخطّ وأنّ ما يتخيّل من مخالفة خطوطهم لأصول الرّسم ليس كما يتخيّل بل لكلّها وجه
One could hardly compare these men to the men around Muhammad or the things they write down to (the divine revelation) they wrote down! Consequently, (the Quranic orthography of the men around Muhammad) was followed and became established, and the scholars acquainted with it have called attention to passages where (this is noticeable). No attention should be paid in this connection to the assumption of certain incompetent (scholars) that (the men around Muhammad) knew well the art of writing and that the alleged discrepancies between their writing and the principles of orthography are not discrepancies, as has been alleged, but have a reason