Is Quran a complete Guidance?
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Subject: Complete
Guidance?
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We accept it as a
fact that Quran is a complete book and source of knowledge. Is that
correct? If it is, then ofcourse each and every answer should be in the
Book.
What is your
opinion?
Wassalam
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Answer:
Is Quran a complete Guidance?
In the name of Allah, We praise
Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can
misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We
bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no
imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness
that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
The Quran is a complete and
absolute Book of Guidance. Every
question that relates to guidance, will definitely find an answer in this
Glorious Book of Allah.
Lets see how Allah Himself
describes His Book:
Allah says in Chapter
2, Surah Baqarah aayat 185:"Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was
sent down: this Book is a perfect guidance for mankind and consists of CLEAR
teachings which show the right way and are a Criterion of the Truth and
falsehood."
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 16 Surah Nahl verse 89:We have sent down to you this Book, which
makes everything plain, and is a guidance, blessing and good news to those who have surrendered
themselves entirely.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 18 Surah Kahf verse 1-3:All praise is for Allah Alone, Who has
sent down this Book to His Servant (Mohamed (saws), and assigned nothing
crooked to it. This Book says
everything directly, so that he may warn the people of the severe chastisement
of Allah and give good news to the believers, who do righteous deeds, that they
will have an excellent reward.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 99:We have sent down to you Revelations
that clearly expound the Truth, and none but the disobedient reject them.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 17 Surah Isra verse 88:Declare this! ‘Even if human beings and
the jinns should co-operate with one another to bring forth a book like the
Quran, they would never be able to bring anything like it, even though they all
helped one another!”
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 6 Surah Anaam verse 157-158:Now that a clear proof, a Guidance and
Blessing, has come to you from your Lord,
who can be more unjust than the one who treats Our Revelations as false
and turns away from them? We
will inflict the severest torment on those who turn away from Our Revelations
because of their aversion. Do the
people now await that the angels should come down before them? Or that your Lord may Himself come
down? Or that the manifest Signs
of your Lord should appear?
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 7 Surah Aaraaf verses 2-3:This is a Book which has been sent down
to you. So, let there be no
hesitation in your mind about it.
This has been sent down that you may thereby warn (the disbelievers),
and that it may be an Admonition to the believers. O people, follow what has been sent down to you from your
Lord, and do not follow other ‘auliyaas’ besides Him. But you seldom take Admonition!
Contrary to popular belief, the
Glorious Quran is not a book of science, or medicine, or astronomy, etc.
Although the Quran touches several of these subjects if and when needed, it was
not revealed to teach us the sciences, although we may take benefit of
that. The Quran was revealed for
our guidance, and every question concerning guidance will find an answer in
this Glorious Book. The subjects
that are not concerned with guidance, can be learnt by man through experience
and research.
Whatever written of Truth and
benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error
is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best
and He is the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and well wisher in
Islam,
Burhan