Allah the Exalted said: “And when My servants ask you about Me” (Why did He not say, “So say, ‘I am near,’” but rather said: “So I am near”?)

Question:
The Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, says: His saying, the Exalted, He said, may Allah have mercy on him: Why did the Exalted not say “So say,” but rather said “So I am near”? What is the meaning of this?

Answer:
Allah knows best. That is, Allah did not say it because, as you know, the Qur'an is eloquent; the Qur'an is at the highest levels of eloquence, so it does not mention anything that speech does not need, and speech does not need the word “say” here; it does not need the word “say.”