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Is the Qurʾān a Clarification of Everything?

The remit of Q. 16:89, where God declares the Qurʾān as “a clarification of all things” is something of a discussion amongst exegetes. On the one hand it seems clear that there is only a certain number of verses speaking on specific topics, and on the other, is it really the concern of the Qurʾān to provide clarification for mundane matters? For this reason, many exegetes have opted to understand the use of “all things” as referring to all things that are related to human guidance and progression. Others have widened the scope more by saying that the Qurʾān contains the principles by which even the mundane can be navigated. In this post we will look at the views of Allāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī and Allāmah Hasanzādah Āmulī.

While Tabatabai agrees with the idea that the Qurʾān explains all that is relevant for human guidance, and indeed this is what makes it a timeless text, he widens this scope to include clarification of what has occurred previously and what will occur in the future, which is an aspect of the taʾwīl of the Qurʾān. The Qurʾān is a manifestation of the Guarded Tablet (al-lawḥ al-maḥfūẓ) or the Well-protected Register (al-kitāb al-maknūn). Accessing the Guarded Tablet is the meaning of taʾwīl, which means to access the origin of something. As Q. 56:78-80 states the Kitāb Maknūn is only accessible to the purified. 

Hasanzādah instead interprets “all things” to mean all existent realities which is the prerogative of those established in knowledge (al-rāsikhūn fi-l-ʿilm) referred to in Q. 3:7 who know the taʾwīl of the Qurʾān. His view of the “and” preceding those established in knowledge is that it is a continuation (ʿatf) rather than the start of another sentence (istiʾnāf) unlike Ṭabāṭabāʾī who thinks the opposite. The Qurʾān is an explanation of realities of the cosmos. Those realities are contained within the souls of humans. The Qurʾān indicates those realities through its text and is therefore a clarification of all things.

For both scholars then, the Qurʾān clarifies everything as it is a window to the Guarded Tablet for the purified. Within the Tablet are the realities of all existent things which are accessed through the process of taʾwīl. Although they reach this conclusion using different thought processes, both see a wider remit for Q. 16:89 than that which pertains to the guidance of mankind.

✍️ Dr. Zoheir Ali Esmail

Iokay that's cool and nice and lovely. But is it the same Quran that is telling those bad guys to shout "Allah Akbar" before they go BOOM?

May the one who reigns forever open the eyes of your understanding.

Islam is anti democracy and cannot exists side by side with a democracy.

That's why the North has Sharia and penal code which are anti democratic.

That's why the middle east is what it is a bed of endless wars and subjugation.

And that's why northern Nigeria is a flashing point threatening to consume the entire nation

Do ur research. It was borrowed pieces of text from the monotheistic religion of Judaism and Christianity mixed with Arab paganism. The Arab god allah is not the same as Jehovah cos Allah was a major deity worshipped by the arabs before muhammed came.

Lets research the truth. Idol worship of one idol is idolatry. The worship of many idols is also idolatry.

Lezzlie:
Islam is anti democracy and cannot exists side by side with a democracy.

That's why the North has Sharia and penal code which are anti democratic.

That's why the middle east is what it is a bed of endless wars and subjugation.

And that's why northern Nigeria is a flashing point threatening to consume the entire nation

I hope you do your research very well or you are here spill nonsense...

Copy and paste what you don't even understand...
What you can explain and mod push this to front page...

Christians are really trying in this forum🤣🤣🤣🤣

If Christians act like muslim there won't be a planet to live in

The answer to your question is NO.

Emphasis on the capital letter NO.

If it is, why are they (Muslims) confused today?

One set of people will say Islam is a religion of peace while the other shouts Allah uwarkbar before beheading someone?

The answer still remains NO!!!!!

But the Quran purposely misrepresents the origin of our species and our universe. So why should a sane person believe in this book?

AlBaqir:
Is the Qurʾān a Clarification of Everything?

The remit of Q. 16:89, where God declares the Qurʾān as “a clarification of all things” is something of a discussion amongst exegetes. On the one hand it seems clear that there is only a certain number of verses speaking on specific topics, and on the other, is it really the concern of the Qurʾān to provide clarification for mundane matters? For this reason, many exegetes have opted to understand the use of “all things” as referring to all things that are related to human guidance and progression. Others have widened the scope more by saying that the Qurʾān contains the principles by which even the mundane can be navigated. In this post we will look at the views of Allāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī and Allāmah Hasanzādah Āmulī.

While Tabatabai agrees with the idea that the Qurʾān explains all that is relevant for human guidance, and indeed this is what makes it a timeless text, he widens this scope to include clarification of what has occurred previously and what will occur in the future, which is an aspect of the taʾwīl of the Qurʾān. The Qurʾān is a manifestation of the Guarded Tablet (al-lawḥ al-maḥfūẓ) or the Well-protected Register (al-kitāb al-maknūn). Accessing the Guarded Tablet is the meaning of taʾwīl, which means to access the origin of something. As Q. 56:78-80 states the Kitāb Maknūn is only accessible to the purified. 

Hasanzādah instead interprets “all things” to mean all existent realities which is the prerogative of those established in knowledge (al-rāsikhūn fi-l-ʿilm) referred to in Q. 3:7 who know the taʾwīl of the Qurʾān. His view of the “and” preceding those established in knowledge is that it is a continuation (ʿatf) rather than the start of another sentence (istiʾnāf) unlike Ṭabāṭabāʾī who thinks the opposite. The Qurʾān is an explanation of realities of the cosmos. Those realities are contained within the souls of humans. The Qurʾān indicates those realities through its text and is therefore a clarification of all things.

For both scholars then, the Qurʾān clarifies everything as it is a window to the Guarded Tablet for the purified. Within the Tablet are the realities of all existent things which are accessed through the process of taʾwīl. Although they reach this conclusion using different thought processes, both see a wider remit for Q. 16:89 than that which pertains to the guidance of mankind.

✍️ Dr. Zoheir Ali Esmail

I doubt it. There's a lot in the Quran that isn't so clear. And there are verses that appear to contradict each other when you do a literal reading. There's also the issue of the Quran being a book fit for its time. So we sometimes encounter problems when we try to apply some of its precepts to the modern era.

omoredia:
Do ur research. It was borrowed pieces of text from the monotheistic religion of Judaism and Christianity mixed with Arab paganism. The Arab god allah is not the same as Jehovah cos Allah was a major deity worshipped by the arabs before muhammed came.

Time, age and style of worship may differ but I think there's only one supreme being that all religious are trying to connect to

Expanse2020:
I hope you do your research very well or you are here spill nonsense...

How many islamic countries in the middle East are a democracy?

Why has all Northern states in Nigeria not signed the Child Rights act of UNESCO? Because they will marry under aged 13 year olds!

There's still time and grace for you to complete your education in a proper school.

Not enough to say on this, just got to

The father of Prophet Muhammad's name is Abdullah, which translates to servant of Allah, meaning there was Allah in Mecca before the birth of the prophet or Islam.

Abdullah died as a kuffar ( an idol worshiper) yet we have people named after him. There's no such thing as Muslim names, these names are names of Arab idol-worshippers.

There were people bearing Muhammad before the prophet and they were not Muslims, it's time for Africans to emancipate themselves from mental slavery.

To those WHO THINKS IT IS, yes.

jeff1993:
Iokay that's cool and nice and lovely. But is it the same Quran that is telling those bad guys to shout "Allah Akbar" before they go BOOM?

@Mods, is this post not offensive enough for you guys?

FaAbData:
Time, age and style of worship may differ but I think there's only one supreme being that all religious are trying to connect to

Even idol worshippers know this.

usmanpogo:
The father of Prophet Muhammad's name is Abdullah, which translates to servant of Allah, meaning there was Allah in Mecca before the birth of the prophet or Islam.

Abdullah died as a kuffar ( an idol worshiper) yet we have people named after him. There's no such thing as Muslim names, these names are names of Arab idol-worshippers.

There were people bearing Muhammad before the prophet and they were not Muslims, it's time for Africans to emancipate themselves from mental slavery.

So your entire premise of disproving Islam is on grounds of the name of his father. Beautiful logic

NOETHNICITY:
So your entire premise of disproving Islam is on grounds of the name of his father. Beautiful logic

It goes beyond that. The qur'anic expose about Islam is creating a lot of controversies for these present generation of Islams and they are beginning to have a re-rethink

All this books are just ordinary stories

FaAbData:
Time, age and style of worship may differ but I think there's only one supreme being that all religious are trying to connect to

This is not true

The idea of a BEING is loaded with assumption

Is there a cause for the existence we see around us ?

Probably

What is the nature of that CAUSE.?

We really do not know
Is it a being ?

We have no way of knowing

My question is

Is there anything higher than or more complex than being?


What people have done is to fabricate stories to answer questions to which the correct answer is


I don't know

The concept of a being comes from psychological projection and assumption

At least now with AI we can see that you don't need to be a being to have intelligence


My idea is this

Whatever is responsible for the existence around us is outside the capacity of our brains and practically has no business with us in our daily life

That is the reality that we all know
No beings anywhere connect to human beings in a way that is incontrovertible

Let me give you some numbers

Since human beings appeared on earth less than 200 billion have walked on earth

In the observable universe around us there are trillions of planets

Of those planets those which are the size of this earth are. over. one hundred billion trillion so each person that has ever lived could have 1 trillion planets each the size of this earth

That is just in the observable universe


But religious books want to pretend that there is just heaven and this earth.

The human existence in the universe is less than negligible

hakeem4:
But the Quran purposely misrepresents the origin of our species and our universe. So why should a sane person believe in this book?

Boda Akeem. Are u a Christian or Muslim or ifa

NOETHNICITY:
So your entire premise of disproving Islam is on grounds of the name of his father. Beautiful logic

Think about it
Why would you need to learn another language to worship the God that created you ?

Why aren't Muslims allowed to pray in their mother tongues ? It's just another way to promote the Arabic language.
Arabic is the most common language in Africa, how did that happen ?

The pagan Arabs have been performing Hajj to the Kabba before Islam and today muslim still carry that pagan tradition.

It's 2025 nothing is hidden, I can't lie to you and you can't lie to me, that's why the internet was created.
The list goes on and on.

NOETHNICITY:
@Mods, is this post not offensive enough for you guys?

.... It was a question good sir,... If u cannot answer it, walk away please.

Lezzlie:
How many islamic countries in the middle East are a democracy?

Why has all Northern states in Nigeria not signed the Child Rights act of UNESCO? Because they will marry under aged 13 year olds!

There's still time and grace for you to complete your education in a proper school.

Gbam Gbam,thanks bro.I like it.Is Islam a religion of Peace or Trouble?