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In the above translations the commentators have counted لَيْسَ … بِ an idiom where بِ has no literal meaning, but is used only to make astatement forceful. However, it is regrettable that the exegetes and translators did not bother to check: if the prepositional meaning of بِ is not counted there, the divine regulation turns out to be wrong, even nonsensical. It sounds nonsensical as it is forbidding to pursue something without ANY knowledge, which people do not do. The practical problem is not pursuing something without knowledge but pursuing it with wrong knowledge.
The Core Problem And Cause
The translated commandment does not represent that it is from the WISE God!
If you read the whole verse, وَلَا تَقْفُ مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ ۚ إِنَّ السَّمْعَ وَالْبَصَرَ وَالْفُؤَادَ كُلُّ أُولَـٰئِكَ كَانَ عَنْهُ مَسْئُولًا , it is God’s crucial commandment as to what kind of pursuit humanity should engage in, as well as it is the fundamental rule with which everyone’s acts will be judged on the Day of Reckoning. The Qur’an says that there will not be injustice to the slightest degree to anyone on that day, so this rule of judgment has to be flawless. But the conventional interpretations quoted above do no reflect this quality in it.
Such elusive improprieties get into Qur’anic commentaries because of the following trends among the commentators:
The Qur’an underscores that لَهُ الْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَىٰ meaning “for Him are the best names.” Its one implication is: when it comes to law, God is the best lawgiver. However, Quranic commentators are usually not conscious of this merit of God while commenting on His prescribed laws. It is also disappointing that, though Western scholars presented their so-called enlightenment thoughts with competing reasons, Muslim scholars never developed an academic culture of presenting God as the best guide and lawgiver. At the most, they glorified His book by showing many of its verses to be the literary masterpieces — which is practically unattractive to most nonbelievers, even to rational Muslims, as this literary beauty does not demonstrate that the Qur’anic rules are upright and superior in merit.
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