METHODOLOGY FOR STUDY OF THE QUR'AN
by Sheikh Imran Nazar Hosein
Methodology
For the first time in human history the world of scholarship was presented with absolute truth in a Book (i.e., the Qur’ān), which was divinely-protected and hence immune from any corruption of the text. What methodology can there be for the study of such Absolute Truth?
In consequence of recognition of this status and role of the Qur’ān in the world of knowledge as ‘absolute truth’, and since Allah Most High declared that He taught the Qur’ān, Maulānā recognized that the Book must itself establish the methodology with which it should be studied, and it would be the function of the teacher who was appointed by Allah Most High to teach the Book, to explain that methodology.
Truth did not come to the world for the first time with the Qur’ān. The Qur’ān has never claimed a monopoly on Truth. Rather Truth came to the world time and again with Prophets of the Lord-God who received divine-revelations from Him. Hence Maulānā directed attention to the role of the Qur’ān as al-Furqān i.e., that which distinguishes ‘truth’ which was already revealed, from falsehood, and consequently always sought validation in the Qur’ān for whatever was presented as ‘truth’ in any and every branch of knowledge. This was particularly so for the previous scriptures. Whenever the Qur’ān exposed anything in previous scriptures as false, the implication would be that it did not come from the One God. Rather it would be a corruption of that which had previously come as Truth.
to be continued .....
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