One of the Secrets of the Phenomenon of Precedence and Delay in (the Book Al-Burhan fi Tawjih Mutashabih al-Qur'an by Muhammad bin Hamza bin Nasr Al-Kirmānī)

The precedence and delay are expressive arts distinguished by the Holy Quran, and they are stylistic features that have a great impact on the beauty of the style and its effective presentation in a concise manner that matches the context and reveals the depths of souls and adapts meanings to the appropriate considerations for the occasion. Scholars of Arabic rhetoric in various specialties have given them utmost attention, searching for them in various texts to display their aesthetics and artistic magnificence that stir the souls. The Quranic text was among the best of these texts as they examined it for the secrets of precedence and delay, especially in the similarities found in the blessed verses. Rhetorical scholars attempted to reveal some of the masterpieces of precedence and delay in the blessed verses.