RE: Verse 42:23 and how to interpret it, disciplines of interpreting Quran.
October 20, 2018 at 12:48 pm
Suratal Auli-Imran, discusses an important issue which is the subject to interpretation. While guidance existed in the past, how did they become distorted. It is obviously by following liars but trusting them. How did this occur?
With respect to Quran, the Islamic paradigm is while it's words remain, the interpretation can become corrupted.
How did this happen, when for example, Moses was followed by a succession of Messengers?
The Quran says disgrace fell upon the Israelites except by a rope from God and rope from humans... what does this mean? We saw earlier the there was a chosen household that was like the family of Abraham among the Israelites. Moses and Aaron family was also said to be one family, and we will see later, this is also the same as the family of David.
The Quran then emphasizes in this Surah to hold on to rope of God and to not be like those who divided in the past. It can be said the whole clarification of near the end of the chosen ones in Israelites, of which Imran, Zakariya, Yayha (John) , Mariam, and Jesus were emphasized in that respect, was to clarify the rope from God and rope from humans.
Revelations like the Gospels were never revealed without a person. Books didn't descend from the sky. This is why belief in Messengers is emphasized along side with belief in books and Angels.
Their leadership is emphasized, "and a master/leader and honorable..." pertaining to the words of Angels regarding John (Yahya).
The rope of God then what is it, after Mohammad? "Mohammad is but a Messenger, if he dies or is killed, will you turn on your backs...", what is the rope of God that stops divisions.
A lot of people say it's Quran, but the Quran already showed it can be subject to misleading interpretations (3:7).
Furthermore, the Surah emphasized that holy revelations and the Prophets in the past, it didn't just emphasize on the holy books, but the Prophets were to be obeyed.
While there are no more Prophets, would there be succession to the sacred leadership of Mohammad?
The issue of leadership was so sensitive, that despite the promise of Mary and Jesus to be born out of her, Zakariya feared his inheritors and hence asked for a pure good offspring that would inherit him from both senses of the word, spiritually and physically, so that no one would dispute to leadership.
And this is one reason that blood relationship was emphasized, to limit the false claimants to divine leadership and succession.
Another thing we will look at is the usage of the word ummatan, often translated as nation or people, while it can be and some places should be, translated as a "course/way". The Quran emphasizes the chosen family after the founder are one way to God, but at the same time, he divides them and cuts them apart into twelve ways, branches from one root. This what occurred with the people of Moses, they had a way/course to God after Moses, split into twelve ways as branches of one family root.
These verses are all clarifying what each other mean.
With respect to Quran, the Islamic paradigm is while it's words remain, the interpretation can become corrupted.
How did this happen, when for example, Moses was followed by a succession of Messengers?
The Quran says disgrace fell upon the Israelites except by a rope from God and rope from humans... what does this mean? We saw earlier the there was a chosen household that was like the family of Abraham among the Israelites. Moses and Aaron family was also said to be one family, and we will see later, this is also the same as the family of David.
The Quran then emphasizes in this Surah to hold on to rope of God and to not be like those who divided in the past. It can be said the whole clarification of near the end of the chosen ones in Israelites, of which Imran, Zakariya, Yayha (John) , Mariam, and Jesus were emphasized in that respect, was to clarify the rope from God and rope from humans.
Revelations like the Gospels were never revealed without a person. Books didn't descend from the sky. This is why belief in Messengers is emphasized along side with belief in books and Angels.
Their leadership is emphasized, "and a master/leader and honorable..." pertaining to the words of Angels regarding John (Yahya).
The rope of God then what is it, after Mohammad? "Mohammad is but a Messenger, if he dies or is killed, will you turn on your backs...", what is the rope of God that stops divisions.
A lot of people say it's Quran, but the Quran already showed it can be subject to misleading interpretations (3:7).
Furthermore, the Surah emphasized that holy revelations and the Prophets in the past, it didn't just emphasize on the holy books, but the Prophets were to be obeyed.
While there are no more Prophets, would there be succession to the sacred leadership of Mohammad?
The issue of leadership was so sensitive, that despite the promise of Mary and Jesus to be born out of her, Zakariya feared his inheritors and hence asked for a pure good offspring that would inherit him from both senses of the word, spiritually and physically, so that no one would dispute to leadership.
And this is one reason that blood relationship was emphasized, to limit the false claimants to divine leadership and succession.
Another thing we will look at is the usage of the word ummatan, often translated as nation or people, while it can be and some places should be, translated as a "course/way". The Quran emphasizes the chosen family after the founder are one way to God, but at the same time, he divides them and cuts them apart into twelve ways, branches from one root. This what occurred with the people of Moses, they had a way/course to God after Moses, split into twelve ways as branches of one family root.
These verses are all clarifying what each other mean.
