If a verse admits of more than one meaning, is it to be understood as containing all of them?
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Question:
Your Eminence, father, the questioner says: If a verse admits of more than one meaning, and there is no contradiction between them, is the verse to be understood as containing all of them, or is a preference to be made between those meanings?
Answer:
If a verse admits of several meanings, all of which are correct, then the verse intends all of them. Whoever interprets it with one possibility has only interpreted it with part of what it indicates, with part of what it indicates. The difference in this, they say, is a difference of variety, not a difference of contradiction.
Your Eminence, father, the questioner says: If a verse admits of more than one meaning, and there is no contradiction between them, is the verse to be understood as containing all of them, or is a preference to be made between those meanings?
Answer:
If a verse admits of several meanings, all of which are correct, then the verse intends all of them. Whoever interprets it with one possibility has only interpreted it with part of what it indicates, with part of what it indicates. The difference in this, they say, is a difference of variety, not a difference of contradiction.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [964- 4717] إذا احتملت الآية أكثر من معنى فهل تحمل عليها كلها؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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