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While reading Qur'an, we see that many concepts used in our
daily life are cited in the verses frequently, and stressed. These concepts
are crucial for understanding Qur'an and acting accordingly. Wisdom, patience,
loyalty, disbelief, special favours of Allah are among these concepts.
However most of these concepts are used in a different sense
then they are used in the daily conversations. Considering this, if a person
regards these concepts with their meanings in the daily communication,
especially a person who reads Qur'an for the first time, can not conceive
Qur'an properly. He can even get a false grip and a heretic point of view.
Let's take "wisdom" as an example. Wisdom is commonly used
for intelligence, to be cunning and smart, and etc. However the "wisdom"
mentioned in Qur'an has no similarity with these concepts. According to
Qur'an, wisdom is only peculiar to the believers, the level of wisdom can
increase or decrease with respect to his righteousness. Wisdom, the mode
of understanding, is a divine guide enabling him to display the true behavior
and attitude which will well-please Allah, and to have a just estimation
of Allah, and a criterion to judge between the right and the wrong, to
achieve the highest moral attitude, to make the true decision under every
condition, and to act in the most beneficial sense for the Hereafter.
On the contrary, the unbelievers do not have wisdom
no matter how intelligent they are. They can at most display intelligence.
They even can not conceive what wisdom is or what acting upon wisdom means.
They think wisdom is the synonym of intelligence. And some may think with
a slight difference that wisdom is dignity and maturity in addition to
intelligence. Nevertheless even the most intelligent, the most experienced,
the most dignified, and the maturest unbeliever has 'no wisdom'.
A person who conceives "wisdom" with the false meanings mentioned
above can draw many false conclusions. A totally different meaning can
emerge in his mind, which would possibly lead him to a heretic belief or
thought. This would also be the case for the other concepts in the Qur'an.
Therefore in order to fully understand Qur'an, to have his
heart strengthened and to live according to the Qur'an, it is certainly
essential for him to know in which certain context the basic concepts in
the Qur'an are used and the perfect wisdom these concepts comprehend.
The root of this knowledge is the Qur'an itself and Arabic,
the original language of Qur'an.
From time to time it is possible that an Arabic word is used
with a special meaning in the Qur'an, and in a specific manner. Therefore
it has significant importance to know in which meanings the specific word
is used in the other verses in Qur'an, the subordination of the verses,
the previous and the next verses, besides the Arabic definition of the
word. Drawing an appropriate conclusion is possible only with an effort,
and of course with the understanding and wisdom given by Allah in addition
to this.
In this book, we've tried to clarify the concepts frequently
met in the Qur'an, analyzing them within the verses they appear both in
the general sense and in the specific sense. Allah knows the best of everything
for sure.
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