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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is prohibited in the interpretation of the Qur'an?

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Question : O Shaykh. The Qur'an is not transmitted by narration. How are you?

Answer : What is correct? It is not correct. It is prohibited to say according to your opinion, meaning to impose your opinion on the Qur'an, not to interpret it according to the requirements of the Arabic language. For this reason, the scholars said that it is forbidden to interpret the Qur'an by opinion, not according to the requirements of the Arabic language. The Qur'an is Arabic, and Allah the Exalted said:
Indeed, We have made it an Arabic Qur'an that you might understand.إِنَّا جَعَلْنَاهُ قُرْآنًا عَرَبِيًّا لَّعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ
[Az-Zukhruf 43:3]
But whatever has changed from the linguistic reality to the legal reality, it is interpreted by the legal reality. For example, we do not say that prayer in the Qur'an is supplication, because it was transferred from the linguistic meaning to the legal meaning. Yes. How? By their opinions. They speak by their opinions, without a doubt.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 218 - 4600 ما هو الممنوع في تفسير القرآن؟ ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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