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Reasons for Misinterpreting the Qur'an

sufficient to read the Qur'an itself to realize just how baseless and
deliberate such ideas are.

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It is stated in the verses of the Qur'an that one has to have the
wisdom, understanding and comprehension provided by God in
order to discover its correct meanings. God's messenger, the
Prophet Muhammad, also mentioned this in a hadith:
Abdullah bin Umar narrated that God's Messenger (saas) said,
"Do not wish to be like anybody except in two cases: The
case of a man whom God has given wealth and he spends it
in the right way; and that of a man whom God has given
religious wisdom (i.e., Qur'an and Sunnah) and he gives his
verdicts according to it, and teaches it to others." (Bukhari
9/419 and 6/543)
The essentials necessary to interpret the Qur'an are a total
acknowledgement of the Qur'an, knowing the various methods of
interpretation, and having extensive Arabic skills. Nonetheless,
even if one possesses all these one still cannot benefit from the
Qur'an unless one has God's gift of understanding. This is why it is
not sufficient to possess only the necessary technical knowledge to
correctly interpret the Qur'an. History is full of examples of people
who, with all their supposed technical abilities, have fallen into the
error of explaining the Qur'an with a twisted approach. The
founders of many perverse religious movements and sects seem
proficient in their fields, but are in fact devoid of the knowledge and
comprehension bestowed by God. These people have distanced
themselves and their ignorant and mindless followers from the true
practice of Islam.
Moreover, the idolaters (mushrikun) of Mecca during the
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