He has called us...

He has called us, instead, to meditate on the Quranic verses in order to remove any apparent discrepancy in them. Allah has revealed the Quran as guidance and has made it a light and an explanation of everything. Why should a light seek brightness from others’ light? Why should guidance be led by others’ guidance? Why should “an explanation of everything” be explained by others’ words? The theologians’ lot was worse all the more.

They were divided into myriads of sects, and each group clung to the verse that seemed to support its belief and tried to explain away what was apparently against it. The seed of sectarian differences was sown in academic theories or, more often than not, in blind following and national or tribal prejudice;…