8-Belief and Islam - Hakikat Kitabevi

meanings. [1] The âyats called mutashâbihât have unintelligible,
occult meanings. Only Allâhu ta’âlâ knows and very few
distinguished superiors who have been granted al-’ilm alladunnî
understand their meanings as far as they are allowed.
No one else can understand them. For this reason, we should
believe that âyats of mutashâbihât are of the Word of Allâhu
ta’âlâ, and we should not investigate their meanings. The
scholars in the Ash’arî madhhab said that it was permissible to
explain away (ta’wîl) such âyats briefly or in detail. ‘Ta’wîl’
means ‘choosing, from among the several meanings of a word,
the one which is not common.’ For example, about the âyat,
“The Hand of Allah is superior to theirs,” which is the Word
of Allâhu ta’âlâ, we should say, “I believe whatever Allâhu ta’âlâ
means by this.” It is the best to say, “I cannot understand its
meaning. Only Allâhu ta’âlâ knows.” Or we must say, “Allâhu
ta’âlâ’s knowledge is unlike our knowledge. His Will is not like
our will. Similarly, Allâhu ta’âlâ’s Hand is not like the hands of
His human creatures.”
In the Books which Allâhu ta’âlâ revealed, either the
pronunciations or the meanings of some âyats, or both, were
changed (naskh) by Him. The Qur’ân al-kerîm replaced all the
Books and abolished the validity of their rules. There will never
be any mistakes, additions, forgotten or missing points in
Qur’ân al-kerîm until the end of the world, nor will it be
forgotten. All knowledge of the past and the future exist in the
Qur’ân al-kerîm. For this reason, it is higher and more valuable
than all the Books. The greatest mu’jiza of Rasûlullah (sall-
Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam) is the Qur’ân al-kerîm. If all
human beings and genies would assemble and try to say
something similar to the shortest sûra of the Qur’ân al-kerîm,
they would not be able to do it. In fact, the eloquent, literary
poets of Arabia assembled and strove very hard, but they could
not say something like three short âyats. They could not stand
against the Qur’ân al-kerîm. They were stupefied. Allâhu ta’âlâ
makes the enemies of Islam incapable and defeated in front of
the Qur’ân al-kerîm. The eloquence of the Qur’ân al-kerîm is
[1] The Qur’an al-kerîm and the Hadîth ash-sherîf are in the Quraish
language and dialect. But the words should be given the meanings
used in the Hijâz thirteen hundred years ago. It is not correct to
translate them by giving them contemporary meanings, which are the
results of the changes throughout centuries
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