His thought about Quran
Amir al-mu'mirfm said in disparage
ment of the differences of view
among the hypocrites.
When a problem is put before anyone of them he passes judgement
on it from his imagination. When exactly the same problem is placed before
another of them he passes an opposite verdict. Then these judges go to the chief
who had appointed them and he confirms all the verdicts, although their Allah is
One (and the same), their Prophet is one (and the same), their Book (the Qur'an)
is one (and the same).
Is it that Allah ordered them to differ and they obeyed Him? Or
He prohibited them from it but they disobeyed Him? Or he prohibited them from it
but they disobeyed Him? Or (is it that) Allah sent an incomplete Faith and
sought their help to complete it? Or they are His partners in the affairs, so
that it is their share of duty to pronounce and He has to agree? Or is it that
Allah the Glorified sent a perfect faith but the Prophet fell short of conveying
it and handing it over (to the people)? The fact is that Allah the Glorified
says:
. . We have not neglected anything in the
Book (Qur`an) . . . (Qur'an, 6:38)
And says that one part of the Qur'an verifies another part and
that there is no divergence in it as He says:
. . And if it had been from any other than
Allah, they would surely have found in it
much discrepancy. (Qur'an, 4:82)
Certainly the outside of the Qur'an is wonderful and its inside
is deep (in meaning). Its wonders will
never disappear, its amazements will never pass away and its
intricacies cannot be cleared except through itself.
- Nahjul Balagha Sermon 18
- Translated by syed Ali Raza