طرق دفع الإشكال عن الآيات القرآنية عند الشيخ أنور شاه الكشميري نماذج من كتابه "مشكلات القرآن

Abstract

Almighty Allah revealed the Qur'an as an endorsement of the prophet
hood and guidance for people. Moreover, Allah (S.W.T) ordered to think and
ponder over the verses of Holy Quran, for example Allah (S.W.T) said in a
vers: “This is the Blessed Book that we have revealed to you, (O Muhammad),
that people with understanding may reflect over its verses and those with
understanding derive a lesson” [38:29], another verse of holy Quran describes
“Do they, then, not reflect on the Qur‟an? Or are there locks on their hearts”
[47:24] etc. Many scholars worked extensively interpreting the verses of the
Holy Quran due to its importance, as emphasized in the above verses, and
contributed humongous to the literature of Tafseer and Quranic sciences.
Some scholars coined the term „abstruse verses of the Holy Quran‟ an area
where it seems that the Quranic verses and Prophetic sayings are
conflicting, or the interpretation of our predecessors doesn‟t match with the
context of the verse and sometime due to the multiple meanings of a single
word also cause a difficulty for a reader. The literature is so vast in this
area, thus, it is now considered as a branch of Quranic Sciences: „The
abstruse verses of the Holy Quran‟. Scholars from the subcontinent also
contributed, and adopted different approaches to elucidate „the abstruse verses
of the Holy Quran‟. First book in this field was written by Sheikh Anwar Shah
Kashmiri with the title of “Mushkilat ul Quran” (The Problems of the Qur‟an)
and this book is considered as a primary source in this field, which indicates
its popularity among the scholars of Tafseer & Quranic Sciences in
subcontinent. Keeping in mind the importance of this book this article cites the
author‟s approach to elucidate so called abstruse verses of Holy Quran.