Wanting to use language familiar to ordinary people, he broke with tradition and used names from the Christian Bible for personages. He also dispensed with annotations, so people could understand the Qur'an in their own way.
因為要貼近一般人所熟悉的字彙語句，他打破傳統，使用聖經人物在基督教經文中的譯名，又捨棄註釋，讓讀者能先就自己的感受去瞭解古蘭經。