Muhkam and Mutashabih in Quran Investigated in India
Publish Date: 3/12/2014 Code: 29888

Muhkam and Mutashabih in Quran Investigated in India

A forum on Muhkam and Mutashabih verses of the holy Quran was held at Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh State of India.

Muhkam and Mutashabih in Quran Investigated in India

According to IQNA’s branch in West Asia, the verses were investigated by Nasir Ahmad Nijaz, researcher of the Islamic university.

The forum was also addressed by scholars such as Mohammad Naser, Nur-ol-Huda, Sadat Suheil, Mahfuz-ul-Rahman, Naghmeh Parvin and Udhma Khatun.

“Muhkamat” is the name of verses the meaning of which is open and clear to one who knows the rules of Arabic grammar fairly well. But when the meanings and explanations of particular verses are not clear to such a person, then, such verses are called the “Mutashabihat”.

Allah Almighty has called the first kind of verses, that is, the “Muhkamat”, Umm al-Kitab (which has been translated literally as mother verses) meaning thereby that such verses are the very root and essence of all teachings, and the meanings and explanations of which are free of doubt or ambiguity.

Since the exact intention of the second kind of verses, that is, the “Mutashabihat”, remains ambiguous and uncertain, therefore, the correct method of their interpretation would be to harmonize them with the first kind, that is, the “Muhkamat”.

Then, the rule is that any interpretation of the “Mutashabihat” which goes against the first kind should be rejected absolutely and only that interpretation should be given credence which is not against the verses of established meaning, “Muhkamat”.

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