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The Eight Symbols (Rumûzat‑i Semâniye) was composed and written very hastily. Relying on what remained in my memory from earlier days, I used two approximate criteria: I wrote down the mysteries of the Qur'an's letters in respect of its miraculousness (i'jaz), basing it on what I remembered of the reckoning of ulema of former times. Then I looked at the explanations about the merits of the Qur'an's letters and words in the famous tafsir called al-Miqyāṣ of Majd al-Dīn al-Firuzabadi, the famous author of the Qāmūs, and ninety per cent coincided with our reckoning; they differed in only four or five places. Then we calculated them again to verify them, and ours turned out to be correct and his, typographical errors. Saying, small differences and errors are not detrimental in such huge totals, I did not find the time to count the whole Qur'an with all its letters, words, and phrases and verify them exactly, and to corroborate the subtleties of its miraculousness. The tyrants did not allow me the time. I made do with those approximate calculations, what I remembered, the reckoning of the old ulema, and my figures in the Kanz al-'Arsh supplication.