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Questioner Rod Veles Asura asked:

"If someone wants to understand a specific verse or a couple of them which talk about some point, what is the best method to understand it correctly or close to correctly (not to be misguided)?" to which Muslim speaker Kashif Shahzada responded citing Quranic verses and the views of Islamic scholars regarding the methodology of Quranic study.

1- Divine Guidance should be the motivation of Quranic study

ٱهۡدِنَا ٱلصِّرَٲطَ ٱلۡمُسۡتَقِيمَ

"Show us the straight way. (Quran 1:6)


2- Allah gives the best Tafseer

وَلَا يَأۡتُونَكَ بِمَثَلٍ إِلَّا جِئۡنَـٰكَ بِٱلۡحَقِّ وَأَحۡسَنَ تَفۡسِيرًا

"And no question do they bring to thee but We reveal to thee the truth and the best explanation (thereof)." (25:33)

3- Allah explains the Quran

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيۡنَا بَيَانَهُ

" Nay more, it is for Us to explain it (and make it clear):" (Quran 75:19)

Quran translator, Abdullah Yusuf Ali acknowledges that the Quran is its own best commentary:

"It has been said that the Qur-ān is its own best Commentary. As we proceed with the study of the Book, we find how true this is. A careful comparison and collation of passages from the Qur-ān removes many difficulties. Use a good Concordance, such as the one I have named among the Works of Reference, and you will find that one passage throws light on another." [The Holy Quran, Translation and commentary by Abdullah Yusuf Ali]

Muhammad Asad writes in The Message of the Quran:

"I have tried to observe consistently two fundamental rules of interpretation. Firstly, the Qur’an must not be viewed as a compilation of individual injunctions and exhortations but as one integral whole: that is, as an exposition of an ethical doctrine in which every verse and sentence has an intimate bearing on other verses and sentences, all of them clarifying and amplifying one another. Consequently, its real meaning can be grasped only if we correlate every one of its statements with what has been stated elsewhere in its pages, and try to explain its ideas by means of frequent cross—references, always subordinating the particular to the general and the incidental to the intrinsic. Whenever this rule is faithfully followed, we realize that the Qur’an is — in the words of Muhammad ‘Abduh — ‘its own best commentary.’ "

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