A review of verses 2:62 and 3:85

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A review of verses 262 and 385

The explanation below is an attempt to answer a question raised regarding any apparent contradiction between the above two verses.

Note Before attempting an explanation of any verse of the Qur?an there are certain rules one must adhere to

Firstly, the Qur?an must not be viewed as a compilation of individual injunctions and exhortations but as one integral whole that is, as an exposition of an ethical doctrine in which every verse and sentence has an intimate bearing on other verses and sentences, all of them clarifying and amplifying one another. Consequently, its real meaning can be grasped only if we correlate every one of the statements with what has been stated elsewhere in its pages, and try to explain its ideas by means of frequent cross references, always subordinating the particular to the general and the incidental to the intrinsic. Whenever this rule is faithfully followed, we realise that the Qu?ran is ? in the words of Muhammad Abduh ? ?its own best commentry?1. Keeping this in mind one can then attempt the explanation of the two verses, to see if there is any apparent contradiction between them.