IGIT, like I said before, some verses are meant as general guidelines, and others are specific...
when one does not know which is which or is in doubt, he / she looks up references like the book I purchased to find out...
and by the way, the book references by name, the statements from one person to another all the way back to the Prophet pbuh as of when a verse was revealed and why...
for example, it would say something like this, Amein Alsuezi told us, that so and so told him (by name) that so and so told him (again, by name).... all the way back to that the verse was revealed when so and so happened... and the trace of people would not be used if it could not be verified ...
IGIT, Muslims accept ALL of the Qur'an as it is regardless of how well or how little they understand it... a Muslim has to, otherwise he / she is no longer a Muslim... I think it's high time for every Muslim to really understand the Qur'an...
as for who's to say one group is right and one group is wrong... that is very simple really, like any dispute or argument, one investigates and tries to understand the Qur'an...
the situation we have is that many people are abusing the Qur'an by using it to promote their agendas ... whatever that is... and non-Muslims, not knowing much about Qur'an to begin with, accept it as an Islamic teaching...
what I question is, why someone does not want to accept documented explanations of the Qur'an ? remember, these books were printed long before WTC or anything happened... so, they could not have been published for the occasion... for example, the book I purchased was first published 954 years ago...
regards
amein |
