Is Understanding the Quran Only the Scholars Job
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Many Muslims consider that it’s only an Alim or a scholar who can interpret the Quran and recite the Quran to them, is this a correct understanding?
Allah says in the Quran in Surah Qamar chapter number 54 no less than four times it says in the same Surah Surah Qamar CH 54 verse number 17, verse number 22, verse number 32, as well as verse number 40,
وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآنَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ
And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
We have made the Quran easy for you to remember and understand, then which of you shall not receive admonition.
So here the Quran says that it is easy for you to understand and some people say it’s only meant for the scholar.
So there’s a contradiction will you believe in them or will you believe in Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَىٰ and Allah says in the Quran in Surah hijr chapter number 15 verse number one
الر ۚ تِلْكَ آيَاتُ الْكِتَابِ وَقُرْآنٍ مُّبِينٍ
A. L. R. These are the Ayats of Revelation,- of a Qur'an that makes things clear.
These are the ayats of the Revelation, which make things clear, that means it makes things clear, it’s easy for a person to understand, but at the same time Allah also says in the Quran, in Surah Nahl chapter number 16 verse number 43 as well as Surah Anbiya chapter number 21 verse number 7
فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ
if ye realise this not, ask of those who possess the Message.
if you don’t know ask the the person who possesses the message, ask the person who’s knowledgeable, ask an Alim.
So if you’re reading the Quran and while reading the Quran, if you find something difficult to understand and ask a person who’s a scholar, ask an Alim, if the Quran speaks about science and we find a difficult understanding, who will you go to?
will you go to a cobbler, will you go to a baba, will go to a scientist, if the Quran speaks about medicine, you will go to a doctor to try and understand what does the Quran say, similarly if you want to know about Quran meaning of certain words of the Quran then you go to an Alim, who has gone to darul ulom maybe for seven years or 14 years, he is an expert in that field.
So the Quran says if you don’t know, if you have doubt ask the person who possessed the message. So it is meant for the whole of humanity, for the common man as well as for the scholars, but while reading if you find any difficulty you can ask the person who’s knowledgeable, and that reminds me of an example, that a few decades earlier in the late 70s and early 80s.
There were a group of Arabs, who followed on the guidance of the verse of the Quran, that if you don’t Pur the message ask the person who has the knowledge, and they collected all the material in the Quran and the say Hadith dealing with the subject of embryology, and they presented it to professor kath moore, at that time in the late 70s and early 80s, Prof Kith more was one of the highest authorities in the field of enology in the world, he was the head of the Department of anatomy in the University of Toronto in Canada and when he was shown the words of the Quran, along with the English translation, and he was asked that what are his comments.
So he said that most of the things that Quran speaks about embryology are 100% in Conformity with what we have come to know recently in modern embriology, but there are a few verses which I cannot say that they are right, neither can I say that they are wrong, because I myself do not know them, and two such verses were the first two vers of the Quran to be revealed, Surah Iqra chapter 96 verse number one and two