When a commentator has fully accepted the views of the...

When a commentator has fully accepted the views of the Mutazilah or Ashariah school of thought regarding the attributes and actions of Allah and the people, when he comes to those verses regarding whom it is possible to interpret them according to his personal belief. And these verses may have a different inner meaning from that of the apparent meaning and he may interpret them according to his beliefs.

And instead of presenting his beliefs to the Holy Quran, (to evaluate on the scale of Quran), he presents the [1] Majmaul Bayan Vol. 1, p.12 Holy Quran to his beliefs. (That is, he does the tafseer of the Holy Quran according to his belief) and on the basis of his personal whims and desire, distorts the meaning of the verses. Tafseer Al-Kashshaf , the commentary of Zamakhshari[1] is a living example of the interpretation of Quran according to the beliefs of the Mutazilah.

In the same way Mafatihul Ghaib of Fakhruddin Razi is the tafseer of the Quranic verses according to the Ashariah school of thought.

Both these commentators had tried to justify their predestined beliefs in the light of Quran and they were not ready to release themselves from their past beliefs that by freeing themselves from their original faith they should have made the verses of the Holy Quran material of their research which were revealed regarding the attributes of Allah and the deeds of men.

In the same way in different periods of history, the Batiniyyah and some philosophers have interpreted some verses of the Holy Quran to justify their views.

For example Mulla Abdur Razzaq Kashi has based his tafseer on the levels of Batiniyyah faith and Muhiyyuddin Arabi has done the tafseer of Quran according to his Sufi beliefs.[2] This tafseer which is compiled only for the propagation of a particular school (a school whose founder was an errant and fallible person) even though some of the points may be [1] Though it was written as the Mutazilte commentary yet its beauty cannot be denied.

** [2]** According to some it was not Muhiyuddin Arabi who has written this Tafseer, it was a student of his who had written it. correct but Ashariah as a whole it constitutes Al-Tafseer bir-Ray . At the end of the 13 th century and the beginning of the 14 th century this trend became common and discoveries and inventions threw up new sciences.