Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

with no such knowledge to interpret the Qur’ân al-kerîm is similar
to an elementary student attempting to read university books or
to perform chemical experiments. We have often read in
newspapers that many such a poor person fell victim to his own
experiments. Those who do not possess all this knowledge should
resort to tafsîrs, from which they will try to understand the
meanings which learned people understood and wrote. Reading
and understanding tafsîrs, however, requires knowing Arabic and
the complementary branches of knowledge well. We, who know
nothing of these branches, can understand nothing from tafsîrs. If
we, relying on the diplomas which we acquired from high schools
and faculties, attempt to dive into the science of Tafsîr, of which
we are so unaware, we will destroy ourselves. Like a certified
person who goes out in the sea although he does not know how to
swim, we will have behaved ignorantly, stupidly.
The great savants of Tafsîr, who were specialized in the
branches of knowledge mentioned above and who have been
distinguished people of the Islamic world for centuries, and the
exalted savants of the Islamic religion, who have been praised in
the hadîth-i-sherîf, “Al-’ulamâ (scholars) are Prophets’
inheritors,” did not explain the âyat-i-kerîmas existing in the
question above as the questioner understands them. With their
deep knowledge and keen insight, they understood their correct
meanings. They declared that the divine meaning was not so.
Hadrat Qâdî Baydâwî, with whom the savants of Tafsîr crown
themselves and who is the master of the specialists of this branch,
explains these âyat-i-kerîmas as follows in his universally known
book of Tafsîr, which is one of the principal masts of the religion:
He explains the thirtieth âyat-i-kerîma of Zumar Sûra as
follows: “You will die. Disbelievers will die, too. Then, on the
Day of Rising, you will settle up with each other in the presence
of Allah. It will be revealed that you are right, and the polytheists
are wrong, corrupt.” It is written in Tafsîr-i Husaynî and also in
the tafsîr of Mawâkib: “The unbelievers of Mekka said,
‘Muhammad ‘’alaihis-salâm’ will die, and we will get rid of him.’
And Allâhu ta’âlâ declared: ‘Yes, you will die. But those
polytheists also will surely die. It is blatant ignorance for those
people who will certainly die to wait for another’s death.’ ” This
âyat-i-kerîma was revealed in order to explain that the
unbelievers were on the wrong path. It does not state anything
indicating that Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ will
become senseless, soulless earth after dying, nor does it even
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