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this is a copy and paste from another thread thi si a more proper place for the topic
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this verse is misunderstood by many....particularly koranaloners misunderstood it being conditioned by traditional objections and abusing of the verse...I desagree with the FM translation, the arabic text is my only reference
To translate word for word this part
...and those who are well founded in knowledge say ?We believe in it, all is from our Lord.?
waalrrasikhoona fee alAAilmi yaqooloona amannabihi kullun min AAindi rabbina wama yaththakkaruilla oloo al-albabi
Who say "We believe in it, all is from our Lord." ? the response is those who are well founded in knowledge.
To put a point between 'waalrrasikhoona fee alAAilmi' and 'yaqooloona amannabihi kullun min AAindi rabbina wama yaththakkaruilla oloo al-albabi' makes the meaning of the second part incomplete.
I do not know perfect translations, the Arabic text must remain the only reference )
"But none know its interpretation except God"
Peace
Marie
peace marie all
marie....your claims are more sound and your understanding is more natural and obvious...i am not so much knowledgeable in arabic to claim it is( syntacticaly speaking) the only valid reading...but when reading in arabic and when studying the verse it is a far more logical and consistent from the other understanding....the obvious message of the verse is that no one know its interpretation except The God..
however this verse and its sentences shouldnt be studied in isolation....thus the fact that knowlegeable are excluded from knowing interpretation is to be put into proper place...and into context of what the verses is saying....and particularly what the book as a whole is saying...
knowledgeable also can know but only through The God, that is, through previously mentioned well aimed signs/words/ayats...
and no one know its meaning is but an emphasizing that the leading role in defining the book`s meaning is to be given to the well-aimed/decisive words which The God calls leading part/prototype/basis of the book...and not to the ambiguous or undecisive sayings....as wavering hearst do...and because of that The god condemns them in the verse...(this condemnation would be meaningless if knowlegeable are included in knowing the interpretation...)
this is the similar case as the cases of knowing gayb...or being able to guide or being able to interceed in behalf of someone...
knowledge of gayb and right to interceed and power to guide belongs solely to God ... that is repeatedly stated throughout the book...however , the knowledgeable or believers, as we also read in the book, can also do all these things but only through The God or his words ... since his words are his representatives...
well aimed sentences are the real representatives of the book`s stance on every topic since ambiguous statements can be interpreted differently and consequently abused...that is koran should be explained by koran...this is what the verse is saying...
best wishes Zlatan