In purely literary terms, the Quran is God’s dramatic monologue. It does not recount God’s communion with humanity; it is God’s communion with humanity. It does not reveal God’s will; it reveals God’s self. And if the doctrine of tawhid forbids any division in the Divine Unity, then the Quran is not just the Speech of God, it is God. This was precisely what the Traditionalist Ulama argued. If God is eternal, then so are the divine attributes, which cannot be separated from God’s self. This would make the Quran, as God’s Speech, an eternal and uncreated thing.
