You can try to make an interpretation if anything is unclear and there is no other source for that information. But what we cannot do is contradict the interpretations made by Muhammad himself (Hadith), his sahaba, immediate family members, scholars and historians from that from that time and region. If I can get an interpretation from an Arab scholar of 8th Century Mecca, that will be much higher weight than an interpretation made by a 20th century Malbari Mullah who does not understand Arabic and whose interpretations directly contradict with Sahih Hadith, establish tafsir from 1000 years ago and basic understanding of Arabic language. That is just nonsense and its sad that people still want to listen to this charlatan.
Dear vitamin c, there has to be consistency in our logical explanation of things therefore we cannot accept or reject a piece of information without any real basis.
For that reason before one claims a piece of information is true or false one must establish on what grounds? For example, what should be the criterion for judging the quran for its truth to begin with and why as well as how that criterion proves or disproves the claim for sure? What should be the criterion for judging the ahaadis for their truth?
That is why in my provided links I have explained such points in detail.
Most people are not even aware of the very basic point of criterion which is there exists a language barrier between God and human beings let alone many other points related to criterion for judging the quran.
All this because the prophetic interpretation of the quran has not reached us in its pure form on its own because soon after the prophet passed away kingdom based upon guidance of Allah which he brought about was allowed to fall apart by his later followers never to be built again since then. Moreover since then people have been adding their own interpretations to the message of the quran in actual sayings of the prophet. Hence the need for reassessing the whole thing once again from the scratch. In doing so we need a criterion which works for sure and can be shown that it does so we cannot accept anything anyone says in this regard just on its face value. This is why we cannot accept any interpretation of the quran today even if it is in the name of the prophet due to interference by ordinary people unless it proves genuine on basis of a solid criterion. Hence knowing the way to interpret the quran properly is first hurdle for all people today regardless they claim to be muslims or nonmuslims. Muslim world is in disarray because it has not worked out any such criterion after the prophet whereby it could reinterpret the quran correctly as it ought to and become united on that basis once again just like in the time of the prophet and be able to bring about the kingdom based upon guidance of Allah once again as promised by the quran.
I have explained the whole thing in my provided links. Since you seem to disagree either without going through my explanation or by going through my explanation and have put forth your own explanation and in my view it does not and cannot work, so I leave it to you to come up with a consistent criterion that works for proving or disproving a quranic interpretation. If I see that it does work I will agree but if it does not then I will explain why not and you will have to keep trying till you get it right or agree with me on my explanation. Once a clear cut criterion is in front of both of us upon which we both agree that it does work then we can argue over any other thing about the quran or hadis or deen of islam etc etc. Having a working criterion for judging things about the quran or deen of islam has to be the starting point because upon that alone depends all the rest.
As for your saying that prophetic explanation is to be accepted I have no problem with that but the point is one has to prove the sayings attributed to the prophet by narrators' are actually his sayings beyond a reasonable doubt. This is why we cannot use sayings of the prophet for interpreting the quran unless there is a clear cut way to prove that that is the case. This point is fundamental and of vital importance therefore we cannot by pass or ignore it. If you have not read what I have explained already then you may have to spend your whole lifetime to try to come up with something similar which I have already explained. In the links I have given I have explained in detail many things about the quran and deen of islam about which most of the people have little or no knowledge at all regardless they claim to be muslims are nonmuslims.
Existence of God and existence of God's revelation are links of the very same chain. If we accept possibility of existence of one then we are bound to accept the possibility of the existence of the other as well and there is no way to reject possibility of existence of either or both of them. However if you have found out a way to do so please share so that everyone could benefit from your knowledge.
The Quran claims to be word of God and in order to accept its claim or to reject it we need a clear cut criterion. In order to do that the very first thing we need to do is understand its text. The question here is, is there a way for human beings to make proper sense of the text of the quran because it claims to be word of God which is not an ordinary claim because knowledge of human beings and knowledge of God are at two different levels? One is fully aware of all things and other has no idea about anything at all when one is born. So you see it is not enough to say I accept or I do not accept the quran is word of God rather things need to be worked out. However we cannot work out anything about the quran till we have a starting point so what could that starting point be? There are only and only three possible ways when we have a claim or a case to investigate or a problem to solve. That is we either assume the claim is true or it is false and or it could be either. Investigating 'it could be either possibility' is time consuming and unnecessary so we can leave it alone. So we are left with only two positions to take ie either the quran is word of God or it is not. Now the question becomes which position we should take first and why in order to investigate the quranic claim? Here we can try and understand the case via an example. Suppose someone comes to a police station and tells a policeman there, a murder as taken place somewhere, should the policeman act on his claim and information and start an investigation or should he assume he is lying and ignore his claim and sit idle? This shows unless we have a reason to start an investigation about something we never start any investigation at all. Once we have a reason to start investigation we only take things the way they are claimed till we get stuck at a point therefore we have a firm reason to believe the claim is false so we could start investigation the case the opposite way. If the claims proves to be true we never need to investigate it the opposite way because the case becomes solved. This is why we will first take the claim on its face value and start investigating it the positive way ie we will assume the quran is actually word of God and then see if the claim proves to be true. If not we can leave it alone or we can gather information to prove it false as well.
What is going on in the so called educated world is, most of these people assume the quran to be false so they start gathering any little piece of information they can to try to prove it false instead of first taking it on its face value and trying to prove it true. This serious mistake by these people puts the whole human world in a terrible situation that they are in which is very much obvious right before our very eyes ie we have turned this world into a dog eat dog world instead of a world fit for human living.
All these like points I am explaining here have been explained in my provided links already. This is why there is no point for me to repeat the whole thing here again. I leave it to your good self to read my explanations and accept them or come up with your own better explanations if you can about the quran and deen of islam regardless they are for them or against them.
regards and all the best.
