Why was the letter taa (ت) written open (مبسوطة) in some verses of the Holy Quran, such as in the Almighty’s saying: "Indeed, the mercy of Allah is near to the doers of good" (إن رحمت الله قريب من المحسنين), and what is the relationship of this to numerical inimitability? And how did the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, direct the scribes of revelation to write it that way when he could neither read nor write?

The tāʾ of femininity in nouns is originally a tāʾ, and it is pronounced as a hāʾ when pausing, to differentiate between the nominal and verbal tāʾ, or between the original tāʾ and the tāʾ of femininity. Some Arabs pronounce it as a tāʾ when pausing (the dialect of Ḥimyar and Ṭayy), and some tāʾāt in the Qur’an were written with a prolonged tāʾ (tāʾ mabṣūṭah) to accommodate this dialect. Numerical miracles have no relation to this. The Companions relied on the Arabic language for writing, and if they differed, they referred back to the language of Quraysh. The writing of some words with a prolonged tāʾ took into account their reading in the singular or as a sound feminine plural, to suit both readings. The orthography (Rasm) is divinely ordained and the method of the Companions must be followed.