What Is Our Duty When We Find No Commentary on a Verse?
«When we encounter Quranic verses for which no commentary can be found, our duty is to hold fast to the Quran and the Ahl al-Bayt. Regular reading of the Quran, drawing on narrations, and putting what we know into practice can help us understand its verses; interpreting the Quran according to personal opinion is forbidden.»
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Supplement to Question 1942
Greetings and renewed respect,
Thank you for your kind attention and guidance, dear teacher.
Please forgive my boldness, but you yourself are surely aware that the Qur’an is تبیانا لکل شیء and has given us permission to ask it whatever questions we have. Certainly, the answers to all our questions are contained within it. Yet my problem is that I do not receive my answer. Perhaps I am unworthy, and the Qur’an does not reveal itself to me; or perhaps I do not persist in seeking my answer. In any case, many verses of the Qur’an have no commentary. What is our duty with regard to such verses?
Thank you once again for your attention.
🌸🔆❄️بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم❄️🔆🌸
#Reply#Supplement to Question 1942
🍀🔅🌟And peace be upon you🌟🔅🍀
🌻🍀🌱🌱🍀🌻
🔆🔅🌱Our duty is to hold fast to the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt. On the one hand, we should study the Qur’an continually and repeatedly, with thought, reason and reflection; on the other, we should draw on the vast garden of narrations, which have bequeathed to us the Qur’an’s commentaries and interpretations, allusions, subtleties and truths. The transmitted narrations also include the supplications of the Imams, which we should continually drink in, heart and soul! We must be certain that we will attain whatever it is necessary for us to know.
🔆🔅🌱Let us not forget this principle: putting what we know into practice is the key to finding our way to what we do not know!
🌸🔅🌱 منْ عَمِلَ بِمَا يَعْلَمُ عَلَّمَهُ اللَّهُ مَا لَا يَعْلَم
*Iʿlām al-Dīn fī Ṣifāt al-Muʾminīn*, p. 301
🌷The Prophet «صلی الله علیه و آله و سلم»: “Whoever acts upon what he knows, God will grant him knowledge of what he does not know.”
🔆🔅🌱When we have gathered all the ripe fruit of the Qur’an’s present teachings from the garden and orchard of the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, then we can ask for more!
🌻🔅🌱 And سْئَلُوا اللَّهَ مِنْ فَضْلِه= and ask God for more of His bounty (more knowledge, mercy, blessings, and so on).
🔆🔅🌱There are usually false claimants who, by saying that the Qur’an is تبیان هر امر and citing it as proof, find an excuse to interpret it according to their own opinions!
🔆🔅🌱Let us remember that the only ones who speak for the Qur’an are the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them!
🌸🔅🌱And ذَلِكَ الْقُرْآنُ فَاسْتَنْطِقُوهُ فَلَنْ يَنْطِقَ لَكُمْ، أُخْبِرُكُمْ عَنْهُ أَنَّ فِيهِ عِلْمَ مَا مَضَى وَ عِلْمَ مَا يَأْتِي إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ وَ حُكْمَ مَا بَيْنَكُمْ وَ بَيَانَ مَا أَصْبَحْتُمْ فِيهِ مختلفون [تَخْتَلِفُونَ] فَلَوْ سَأَلْتُمُونِي عَنْهُ لَأَخْبَرْتُكُمْ عَنْهُ لِأَنِّي أَعْلَمُكُم
*Tafsīr al-Qummī*, vol. 1, p. 3
🌷“As for that Qur’an: even if you strive to make it speak, it will never speak to you. I will inform you about it. Indeed, the Qur’an contains knowledge of the past and the future, until the Day of Resurrection; it is the rule between you and the explanation of your disagreements. So ask me about the Qur’an, and I will surely inform you.”
🌷🔅🌱Have we truly breathed in all the flowers of ʿAlī and his descendants?!!! Tasted their honey?!!! Eaten their fruit?!!! And so on????????????????