Nouman Ali Khan – Can We Do Tafsir with Our Own Understanding- Q&A
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The speaker discusses the use of tadGeneration in Islamic language and the importance of providing evidence to support their understanding of the Quran. They emphasize the need for a clear understanding of the Quran and encourage listeners to sign up for resources on YouTube. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of learning the Quran for one's life and offers resources for those interested in it.
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They think that's it's one and the same
thing
or you shouldn't be doing it.
Actually the Quran
complains if you don't do tadaqbar.
Tafsir question you say, Aslan. Yes.
So, like, in your tafsir, you mentioned
the meanings,
without the context, you know, what it means,
generally, and then you bring it in,
what it means in istillah in sharia. Right.
So,
you know, some say that it has to
be from the classical tafasir. We can't just
do a tafasir
from our
own understanding or just take the meaning from
the book and then Where did they get
it from?
Not just the the classical of Hasidun get
it from? So they say they they they
get it from the,
the Hadith and No. They don't.
So I mean No. They don't. The question
is The question is Is there a ruling
or a rule or The people who say
you can only say what the classical Mufassir
run have said.
When the classical Mufassir,
who we consider classical Mufassir, when he was
writing it, whose permission did he get?
Do you understand?
Because then you that same logic would have
worked at that time. Hey, you can't say
that. Nobody said it.
You'll find for example Al Qurtubi saying things
that nobody said before him.
Obviously, if somebody already said it before him,
there's no reason for him to write anything.
Do you understand?
When by the time, Yohann Razi writes his
commentary
or Kashaf writes his commentary or even more
contemporary, yibin Ashur rahimawllah or alusir rahimawllah write
their commentary. They're saying brilliant things that have
not been said before.
But, if the idea is you can only
say what has been said before,
then
the Sahaba should never speak because the Prophet
already spoke.
And therefore the Tabari'i should never speak because
the Sahaba already spoke.
Right?
This logic doesn't work.
It's not, it's, it's, it's not an accurate
depiction of what happened in Islamic history. The
issue is there are principles and the principle
is not copy someone else. That's not a
principle. The principle is you have to say
something that is coherent or consistent with the
language.
You have to say something that's consistent with
history
and you have to provide your evidences.
Now you somebody could argue your evidence is
weak or your evidence is strong. But you
can't say, No, your evidence didn't come from
that book. That's why it's not a good
evidence. That's silly.
That's not how
tafseer ever worked. And by the way, my
work is not tafsir.
My work is tadabur.
Actually and there's a big difference between tafsir
and tadabur.
And I I do a lot of tafsir
work, but tafsir is where I rely on
the past.
But tafsir is what's built on top of
tafsir.
I've given lectures, you can find them on
YouTube. The difference between tafsir and tadabur, which
is something most Muslims are not really paying
attention to.
They think that it's one and the same
thing, or you shouldn't be doing it.
Actually the Quran
complains if you don't do tadabur,
from every human being. Every human being should
be doing tadabur of the Quran. Afalaayatadabburullu
Quran Allah didn't say, afalaayatadabburullualamaaquran
He didn't say, Why don't the scholars contemplate
the Quran? He said, Why don't they contemplate
the Quran? Everybody,
everybody like
So, so we've created this narrative that doesn't
have any legs.
Of course we have to base our conclusions
on scholarly
sources. But to say we can only say
what has been said before means the Quran
or has nothing more to offer.
Is anybody willing to say the Quran has
nothing more to offer? Everything that every treasure
that could be extracted from the Quran has
already been extracted, so it's depleted now. Would
be are we okay with saying that?
Then how are we okay with saying only
say what was what was said before?
It's it's it this logic collapses on itself.
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