Manifest to all the people.
Translation endnotes
[74:29] This verse, like many of the verses and words in this chapter, before 1974 had multiple meanings (mutashabih) and commentators were aware of them. Though all commentators knew the primary meaning of this verse to be "manifest to all the people," few of them mentioned it in their commentaries, and most of them chose the alternative meaning, "scorching the skin." Some, picked a mixture and preferred "scorching humans." Commentators who lived in pre-1974 had an excuse to use ‘scorch’ and ‘burn,’ but after the discovery of the secret, after the prophecy of this chapter was unveiled, translators and commentators have no excuse for repeating the misunderstanding of previous generations. We translate the word bashar as "humans" while many classic commentaries rendered it as "skin." The Quran uses it invariably for humans. For instance, it used for humans just two verses down, at the end of verse 31. The word we render as "manifest" or "succeeding tablets/screens," is lawaha and the Quran never use it to mean "scorching," "burning" or "shriveling." See 7:145,150,154; 54:13; 75:22. After learning the discovery of the mathematical system based on the number 19, it takes a blindness and bigotry in the magnitude of miracle to not see the obvious meaning and implication of this verse. Those who assert that the only response the Lord of the Universe could give to a skeptic who challenged the authenticity of His word is to tell such a skeptic, "I will throw you in fire and scorch you!", do not appreciate God as He should be appreciated. These people can accept a God who can produce the best literary work, but they cannot accept Him as the ultimate mathematician and advocate. They see hell, fire and smoke in verses where an amazing intellectual piece of evidence is prophesied. See 6:91; 22:74; 39:67. For a comparative discussion of this verse, see the Sample Comparisons section in the Introduction.