“From Him it began”: the source of the speech

The Qur’an: Divine Speech and the Principle of Bilā Kayf

مِنْهُ بَدَأَ بِلَا كَيْفِيَّةٍ قَوْلًا
It originated from Allah as speech, without assigning a modality.

From Him it began identifies Allah as the true source of the Qur’an, not a creature that fabricated it.

Without modality means that the manner of divine speech must not be compared with the manner of creaturely speech.