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Saturday, June 02, 2012

Tafseer: "Verily, This Qur'an Guides to That Which is Most Upright…"

Allaah, the Most High, says:

إِنَّ هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ يَهْدِي لِلَّتِي هِيَ أَقْوَمُ
"Verily, this Qur'an guides to that which is most upright…" [Al-Israa' 17: 9]
Imaam Abu Ja'far, Ibn Jareer at-Tabaree [May Allaah have Mercy on him] said in his Tafseer:
"Meaning this Quraan that has been revealed upon our Prophet Muhammad [Peace and Blessings of Allaah be Upon him] is guidance and is a means of one being upright and steadfast upon it.
'To that this is most upright' meaning to the path that is upright and it being distinct from the various other paths. Therefore, the religion of Allaah which He Sent His Prophets with, are all Islaam. So Allaah, The Exalted, is saying that this Quraan guides the slave of Allaah to be guided by it, guided to the intended path and all the other paths are paths to misguidance which the followers of lies and misguidance follow.
As is it was narrated that Ibn Zayd said about this Aayah, 'the path is the correct path, the path that leads one to the truth. It deviates one from straying from the path, meaning it protects one from all forms of falsehood. Allaah describes this path in His Book that path that is the path of truth it doesn’t have crookedness, therefore it is firm and straight.'"
[Tafseer at-Tabaree 17/392-392]

Imaam Aboo Abdullah Muhammad bin Ahmad al-Qurtubee [May Allaah have Mercy on him] said about this Aayah;
"After mentioning the things that crippled the Children of Israel and this was a proof from the evidences that the Prophethood of Prophet Muhammad [Peace and Blessings of Allaah be upon him] was true. He then explains to us that this book that He has Revealed, is a cause of guidance. The implications of this is that it's the most upright from paths that one can take, it is the most just and correct. This is a quality that negates any form of erasure, meaning it is the path that has the texts which guide us to what is upright.
Az-Zujaaj said, 'From the all the different situations you are in, the Quraan guides you to the most correct resolution in each and every situation you may be in, namely to have Tawheed and to have full Eemaan in the His Prophet.'"

[Jaami' Ahkaam al-Quraan wa Lama Tuddaman min as-Sunnah wa Ahkaam al-Furqaan (10/203)]

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