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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Quran Per Islam The Method of Guidance and Explanation Used in the Rest of the Qur'an This we may attribute, firstly, to the fact that there is no verse whose meaning is totally obscure since the Qur'an describes itself as a light, as a guidance and as an explanation. Thus it is not befitting that there be verses, which fail to reveal their meaning, or to illuminate the Qur'an as a whole.

We should examine again the verse, Will they not ponder on the Qur'an. If it had been from other than God they would have found much inconsistency in it IV: eight two. Thus reflection on the Qur'an would remove all kinds of seeming inconsistencies making it unacceptable to say, as do most of the scholars that the implicit verses cannot be totally understood and that apparent inconsistencies cannot be resolved.

Other scholars say that what is meant by the implicit verses are the letters found at the beginning of certain chapters. (These are known as the muqatta'ah-letters, like Alif, Lam, Mim, Alif Lam Ra, Ha, Mim, whose real meaning is unknown). We must, however, remember that the implicit verses are so-called when read in relation to the explicit verses.

This denotes that, accompanying the hidden meaning of the implicit, there is a surface (or literal) meaning whereby the real and the apparent meanings come together in intricate relationship with one another. It should be understood that the letters at the opening of e certain chapters do not have any literal meaning. It seems that a group of misguided men use the implicit verses to e mislead people, but never in Islam has one heard of anyone trying to use the muqatta'ah-letters to do so.

Some commentators say that the meaning of the word mutash?bih, (in the verse), refers to the famous story (5) of the Jews who wanted to find an indication of the duration of Islam within the order of the letters, but the Prophet used to read the letters one after the other and so confuse their calculations. This view is also without substance since, even if the story is true, it is neither of sufficient impact nor conviction to be considered as an interpretation of the implicit verses.