شَہْرُ رَمَضَانَ الَّذِی ُنزِلَ فِیہِ الْقُرْآنُ ہُدًی لِلنَّاسِ وَبَیِّنَاتٍ مِنْ الْہُدَی وَالْفُرْقَانِ فَمَنْ شَہِدَ مِنْکُمْ الشَّہْرَ فَلْیَصُمْہُ وَمَنْ کَانَ مَرِیضًا َوْ عَلَی سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّة مِنْ َیَّامٍ ُخَرَ یُرِیدُ ا بِکُمْ الْیُسْرَ وَلاَیُرِیدُ بِکُمْ الْعُسْرَ وَلِتُکْمِلُوا الْعِدَّةَ وَلِتُکَبِّرُوا عَلَی مَا ہَدَاکُمْ وَلَعَلَّکُمْ تَشْکُرُون
"The month of Ramazan is that in which the Quran was revealed, a guidance to men and clear proofs of the guidance and the distinction; therefore whoever of you is present in the month, he shall fast therein, and whoever is sick or upon a journey, then (he shall fast) a (like) number of other days; Allah desires ease for you, and He does not desire for you difficulty, and (He desires) that you should complete the number and that you should exalt the greatness of Allah for His having guided you and that you may give thanks."
Surah Baqarah - 185

Quran - The Speech of Allah

In this discussion on Recognition of Quran, the first topic is that the Holy Quran is the speech of Allah. Human being should have faith and belief in Quran being the speech of Allah  and the same should get expressed by man's action that Quran is speech of Allah.

The Holy Quran has itself discussed about such persons who could not believe that Quran is the speech of Allah hence they would deny the Messenger declaring him as liar on the basis that how can the speech of Allah descend on a human being?

After listening to the verses of Holy Quran they would come in the presence of Messenger (s.a.w.s) and in an insulting manner say  اساط الاوّلین which means these are ancient tales which He (Messenger) has himself gathered after studying different books  and is presenting them as a heavenly book. At times they would call him poet and Quran a book of poems. The only reason behind this and other similar allegations was their deprivation of grasping it as a speech or words of Allah. By just knowing and accepting it as a speech of Allah at a surface level would not suffice man to reach the stage of attestation and affirmation.

The descend of Quran

The Quran has introduced itself also by associating it with the different beautiful names of Allah like:

تَنزِيلٌ مِّن رَّبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
Surah Waqiah - 80

تَنزِيلُ الْكِتَابِ مِنَ اللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَكِيمِ
Surah Waqiah - 41

This means that the Quran is a descended (Nuzool) Quran from Allah. This is because when Quran was in the presence or essence of Allah or was associated with the names and attributes of Allah then in reality it was in a different world. In this world Quran was not in form of words, meanings or chapters and neither was it in form of information, narration and attributes in fact Quran expresses its quality of presence in that world by itself in Surah Waqiah

ِنَّہُ لَقُرْآن کَرِیم ٭ فِی کِتَابٍ مَکْنُونٍ
Surah Waqia - 77,7

This is a concealed book which means a book hidden behind veils. This implies that in this state this book was beyond man's approach and it was not worthy of understanding. After this the Quran also said:

اَیَمَسُّہُ ِلاَّ الْمُطَہَّرُونَ
Surah Waqia - 89

اَیَمَسُّہ is not prohibiting to touch the descended Quran instead there is a separate evidence available for this. اَیَمَسُّہُ ِلاَّ الْمُطَہَّرُونَ is used to inform and not order which means it is not said that do not touch the Quran in fact it is informed that this is Quran and other than purified beings no one can touch it.

What is intended by touching Quran?

Touching means understanding and grasping. Touching materialistic thing means physical contact whereas touching spiritual things implies grasping. In our routine communication we also say that certain meaning or concept did not even touched his mind. This means the concept or meaning was so fine and precise whereas the mind is so thick that this meaning did not even touch his mind and it just passed over him and he could not understand. Touching a meaning or concept means understanding and grasping it.

Thus اَیَمَسُّہُ ِلاَّ الْمُطَہَّرُونَ means Quran is a concealed book and none other than purified personalities can grasp and absorb it. Whereas Quran is a necessity for ordinary beings like us and for the same it has been said that it is beyond their approach and reach. Hence this difficulty rises over here that Quran is out of reach from those for whom it is essential and it is not possible for them to reach it. Those who have approach to Quran i.e. the purified beings do not need the Quran to the extent ordinary beings need it. They are already purified and Quran even without descending is within their approach. Thus there exists a need for a solution over here for those who are in need of Quran; it should be made approachable for them and should be brought to their level of understanding.

The terminological meaning of descend of Quran

The meaning of descend (Nuzool) is to bring it down to the level of understanding of ordinary human being from the estoric world state which was elevated, not in form of words, imagination and affirmation.

In day to day life we witness when some teacher is speaking something  very precise, terminological and intellectual then ordinary persons demand from him that your speech is beyond our level of understanding hence please come down a little. The meaning of coming down is not intended for the speaker to come down from the stage and sit on the ground. It means to bring down the level of your speech to the understanding level of ordinary persons. He should use such a balanced and easy to understand language that everyone should grasp the words. The reason behind this is that at times a person always addresses theological students and scholars ; since they are people of knowledge and are acquainted with the terminologies hence using intellectual terminologies in front of them is not a problem but the ordinary persons are not familiar with these terminologies and hence find difficulties in understanding. Thus their claim and demand is justified to say that your speech is beyond our level and you should bring it down a little and present it in a simple language. Now if an intellectual does this which means expresses his speech and words in an easy to understand manner than it implies he has descended his meanings and speech; hence he has brought his speech to the ordinary persons level of understanding. This is what is meant by descend (Tanzeel).

The imagination of "Nuzool" (descend) of Quran in ordinary minds

The imagination of "Tanzeel" (descend) is not the one which is generally find in ordinary minds that the Quran is in the Protected Tablet (Lauh-e-Mahfooz) and this Protected Tablet is on the fourth sky and the fourth sky is above the earth. And from there Allah (s) gave Quran to Jibrael and he flew like a bird from the skies and came to the Messenger (s.a.w.s) and handed it over to him.

This interpretation or image of Quran is far from reality and it is probable that if a person gets indulged in such kind of imagination about Quran then he will go far away from the reality of Quran.

The true imagination of "Nuzool" (descend) of Quran

The descend of Quran is not like a post whereby Allah is present somewhere remote and the Prophets are sitting in some far off location and there is no communication between them hence there was a need for a courier which is Jibrael due to whom this communication and contact was possible. This is the method of creation and this trend is found in the creation which we at times spontaneously apply in the same way for the creator and this is the reason that we are deficient in understanding the reality of Quran. Though Allah (s) himself says in the Quran that "Allah is with you"

Similarly in verse 186 of Surah Baqarah, Allah (s) says:

وَِذَا سََلَکَ عِبَادِی عَنِّی فَِنِّی قَرِیب ُجِیبُ دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِی ِذَا دَعَانِی
"Whey they question about me, tell them I very close, You call and I will answer"
Surah Baqarah - 186

Allah is telling his Prophet (s) that O Prophet!, when my worshippers ask you about me; one or two such persons rarely come out who question about Allah else majority of them are worshipers of sustenance, bounties and luxuries of Allah or worshippers of paradise and Houries. And majority rather than asking the address of Allah himself they seek the address of bread and sustenance. But these few came to the Messenger (s.a.w.s) and instead of asking the address of anything else they were asking about the address of Allah (s), as to what is the way of reaching Allah?

وَِذَا سََلَکَ عِبَادِی عَنِّی فَِنِّی قَرِیب

This is a beautiful verse and certain scholars have expressed some deep and interesting meanings under the pretext of this verse. Like "O Prophet! when my worshippers question you about me" then over year Allah did not replied as " Say O Prophet!" instead Allah himself replied and said I am very close and then along with this also said that this proximity and nearness is not just word sake you can very well test it.

 فَِنِّی قَرِیب ُجِیبُ دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِی ِذَا دَعَانِی

I am so close that if someone calls me I myself answer him and then at one other place the degree of proximity was further expressed on how close I am.

وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِيدِ
"We are near to him than his jugular vein"
Surah Kaaf - 16

The essence of Allah is nearer than the life vein of man and then the ultimate degree of proximity was also expressed which was that Allah is nearer to man more than man himself.

أَنَّ اللّهَ يَحُولُ بَيْنَ الْمَرْءِ وَقَلْبِهِ
"Allah intervenes between man and his heart"
Surah Anfal - 24

Allah is intervening between man and his heart which means Allah is between man and his heart, that is the essence of Allah is closer to man then he himself. When such a close essence wants to deliver a message will He need Jibrael in between? The situation is such that Allah himself says:

 ُجِیبُ دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِی ِذَا دَعَانِی|

Call me and I will answer, I hear your whispers, I am aware about the secrets of your hearts. There is no need to disturb public by broadcasting your calls on high frequency and high power amplifiers, let them rest. You just say in your heart O Allah" and I listen to your call. When the essence of Allah is so near that he is not in the skies but inside the heart of man then there should be no need of any means required for Allah to deliver his message to man but still in this chapter the means are present.

The Philosophy of means in descend of revelations (Wahy)

It becomes clear from here that by establishing descend and revelation as means the purpose was not to deliver the message but instead to make this message worthy of understanding Jibrael and Prophet (s) are required. If Jibrael and the enlightened heart of the Messenger (s) won't be present then man does not possess the strength and capacity to understand the message of his so near God. This is because one is the position of Lord and other the position of human being and these two positions first of all are non comparable. Man understands the language of words and meanings, he talks in the language of imaginations and affirmations, he takes helps of Arabic, Urdu, Persian and English for routine talks whereas the state of world at Allah's position is something totally different. Allah in reality does not talk, neither in Arabic, nor in English or Urdu; then how will the matters of that esoteric world get transferred to this world? How will the realities of that world come down to this world?

It is like when man transfers his mental thoughts on a book then this mental information of ours gets transformed into a form of words. This is only possible when we have some means like paper, pen, imagination and grasping in between else Allah has not made the mind of man such that it has paper and pen present inside it and also these sciences and knowledge is not present inside our minds in the form books and paper. Thus man in order to acquaint others with his intelligence he constructs his mental information and speaks in form of words.

A teacher when expressing some meanings in a class to his students is actually presenting his mental information in form of words but if this teacher becomes silent than no student possesses the ability and strength to reach or acquire the information present in the teachers mind. Thus Allah (s) has kept such a machine inside man, he has made the body and innate nature of man such that he can convert his intelligence very easily into words. Though if we ponder over this it is a very complicated and astonishing task; in fact it's a miracle that how man transforms his intelligence into words and makes it reach others.

Similarly there was knowledge and realities present in the essence of Allah which were essential for guidance of man and it was to be delivered to man and hence there was need to convert the meanings of one world into that of other world.

A simple example

In order to understand this concept we will present a simple example from latest technology because latest technology developments have eased out the task of understanding meanings.

These days we deal with Computer, Mobile, Telephone and Fax in our day to day life. In the very beginning when these things were new and specifically when Telephone was introduced people used to think that whatever we speak our word enter these wires and by passing through these wires reach the other end. Thus people considered these cables like hollow pipes and the way when we speak in one end of a hollow pipe the voice reaches the other hand same thing happens here in these telephonic cables. Though it does not happens this way like when we turn on the Radio or TV we are sitting in our homes and listening to the person sitting far off in the broadcast station. His voice passes through certain specific stages before it reaches us. There is a microphone in front of the person speaking. His voice is captured by the microphone and converted to electrical waves. These waves when transmitted to the other end are captured by the receiver which again re converts it back to voice. It is not that the English or Urdu words enter the cables and reach the other end. There are systems and machines that convert the voice into other form transmitting it to the receiver which re converts it back to its original form. This is our world where we witness such things in our day to day life. Spirituality is also similarly; if the meanings of one world are required to be transferred to the other world then they need to transformed at some place in between. Thus there arises the need for Prophets and Angels so that they can present the divine realities in the language of man.

At times two persons are sitting close to each other but their languages are different. Thus they both cannot understand each others words and talks. We need here now a translator who understands both the languages and talks to each of them in his own language.

The responsibilities of Prophets

The Prophets are doing the same thing; they are transforming Allah's language into that of man because they are well acquainted with the languages of both. A Messenger is one who is connected to both the worlds; it is not that Allah sends his revelation on anyone and he becomes a Messenger. A Messenger is connected to both the worlds; he understands the meaning of that world as well as this; he understands the realities of that world and he is capable of transforming the meanings in the language of this world and expressing it else there was no need for Prophets. What was the need that the Quran descends on one Messenger and he then delivers it to millions of people?

The Angels do not descend on every individual because we only understand the language of one side which means we only understand human language but the language in which meanings are present with Allah is unfamiliar to us. This is the fundamental point inside Descend (Nuzool) that Descend (Nuzool) means delivering the realities to man present in the knowledge of Allah which is a need for man.

Descend (Nuzool) in Quran

The Quran has indicated this point in many of its verses. In Surah Waqia Quran has been declared as concealed book. This meaning is expressed from verse 76 to 80 as فَلاَُقْسِمُ بِمَوَاقِعِ النُّجُومِ وَِنَّہُ لَقَسَم لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ عَظِیم "I swear by the falling of stars; And surely this is very great oath only If you knew". This swear was on this great oath  ِنَّہُ لَقُرْآن کَرِیم| "It is an honoured Quran" فِی کِتَابٍ مَکْنُون  "It is a book that is concealed" and لاَیَمَسُّہُ ِلاَّ الْمُطَہَّرُونَ " only purified beings can approach this". The Quran has also mentioned about these purified beings and they are the prophets and the Progeny of Messenger (s.a.w.s). The evidence of their purity is given by Quran in Surah Ahzab Verse 33

 انّما یریدُ اللّہَ لِیُذہِبَ عَنکُمُ الِّرجسَ اَہلَ البَیتِ وَ یُطہِّرَکُم تَطہِیراً

It is only the purified beings who have approach to the concealed book implying that even without descend they can reach the Quran and possess its understanding. But this Quran is a necessity for ordinary beings; those who are not purified. In order to deliver Quran to them it needs descend (Nuzool). Thus in this regards as well the Quran says:

 تَنزِیل مِنْ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِین

This Quran is descended from the Lords of universe. This means the Quran which in the state of concealed book (کِتَابٍ مَکْنُون) was only approachable by purified beings now after descend has come in the hands and approach of common world. The phrase "Lord of Universe" (رَبِّ الْعَالَمِین) which has come in the end of verse has a pleasant point in it. Certain elderly teachers quote that these beautiful names of Allah that come towards the end of such verses are not just used to balance the sentence just like the poets use some rhyming words in the phrases to give a sense of completion to the statement irrespective of the fact whether those words make any sense or not. This is not the case here in fact these beautiful names have a significant intervention in the entire meaning of the verse.

 تَنزِیل مِنْ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِین Since the essence of Allah is Lord of Universe hence it is a requirement from this universal lordship that guidance should also be universal. Thus this descend or revelation is part of this Lordship and descending Quran for guidance of humanity is an example of this Lordship. These purified personalities who grasp the Quran even in the concealed or protected state have this speciality that through them this Quran gets descend (Tanzeel) which means it gets converted to ordinary persons language. The Holy Quran has mentioned the purpose of this descend in the first three verses of Surah Zukhraf because the Quran has come down from the divine world to the world of human in the structure and attire of words.

 بِسْمِ االلّہَ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْمِ حم ٭ وَالْکِتَابِ الْمُبِینِ ٭ ِنَّا جَعَلْنَاہُ قُرْآنًا عَرَبِیًّا لَعَلَّکُمْ تَعْقِلُون

We have sent this Quran in Arabic so that you can understand it implying that if we would not have descended it and would not have transformed into a structure of words then your hands would have never reached it and you could never grasp it. Thus transforming this concealed book in Arabic language and structure of words is descend of Quran (Nuzool-e-Quran). The purpose of this descend is also  لَعَلَّکُمْ تَعْقِلُون that is you should ponder over it, think over it and you should understand it. The verse after this is like this:

'وَِنَّہُ فِی ُمِّ الْکِتَابِ لَدَیْنَا لَعَلِیّ حَکِیم

This Quran with us is the original book which means the same Quran is present in the Sources of Decrees (Maqam-e-Ladunw), Protected Table (Lauh-e-Mahfooz) and in divine knowledge. Descend means transforming this into Arabic language. Thus meaning of Descend of Quran (Tanzeel-e-Quran) is to make Quran easy in order to make it reachable for humanity and make it worthy of understanding. The Quran has also expressed the same meaning in other words:

فَِنَّمَا یَسَّرْنَاہُ بِلِسَانِکَ
Surah Maryam - 98

Here the word descend (Tanzeel) is not used instead یَسَّرْنَا has come. This means O Prophet! We have made this Quran easy by transforming it in your language that is the language of people. The world of words is the language of man irrespective of which geographical language it is. The books which have descended before were not necessarily in Arabic only. It is possible it would be in Latin or Hindi because history is not preserved we are not about which all places one hundred twenty four thousand prophets have come. The Quran has only discussed about those Prophets that came to Middle East. There is no mention of other Prophets though whichever part of the world you visit the followers of God are present. America, Africa, India all have worshippers of God and it is the Prophets who have made them worshippers of God but the history of these Prophets is not present.

It is said about Zoroastrians that it was a heavenly religion but they distorted it or regarding some Greek personalities it is said that they were Prophets but their communities made them something else. Similarly the elderly personalities of Hinduism or other religion could possibly be Prophets though we do not have an proof for their being Prophets and no proof to even deny their Prophethood. The way the Christians rather than accepting Isa as their Prophet they accepted him as the son of God and in fact God so it is possible that the same story took place in India as well. Those personalities whom Allah would have sent for their guidance they made them as idols and Gods. There are many such distortions and deviations that have been done by human being and it is possible that these things have happened on different parts of the world.

The necessity for simplifying Quran

The languages spoken by man are all human languages and Allah (s) is saying that we have made this Quran easy by revealing it in your language and also mentions the need for making it easy  '' لِتُبَشِّرَ بِہِ الْمُتَّقِین'' so that you can develop hopes in them and guide them and '' وَتُنذِرَ بِہِ قَوْمًا لُدًّا " through this you can warn your stubborn community; and this is the reason we have made Quran simplified and easy.

We have a level of teaching Quran to children in an easy manner , the name of which is '' یَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآن '' (easy Quran or Quran made easy) and this name is coming from this aforementioned verse.

یَسَّرْنَا is the introduction and interpretation of descend (Tanzeel), thus descend means  یَسَّرْنَا (making easy)  . Similarly the verse which was mentioned before in that also the purpose of revealing the Quran in Arabic was to make it easy to understand and in this verse also same is revealed that we have made the Quran easy by revealing it in your language.

In Surah Qamar as well Allah (s) has expressed the same meaning in different verses . In verse 17 of this chapter it is said:

''وَلَقَدْ یَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآنَ لِلذِّکْرِ فَہَلْ مِنْ مُدَّکِر ''
And certainly We have made the Quran easy for remembrance, but is there anyone who will receive admonition?

We have made the Quran easy so that you can remember it after understanding it and you can take guidance and lessons from it. Thus Quran is not just the name of oral repetitive recitations or in Taraweeh prayers.

There are various names of Quran and amongst these names one of the names of Quran is "Dhikr" (remembrance of admonition). "Dhikr" is not something that can be delivered just by tongue it means admonition and remembrance. Then the Quran says:  فَہَلْ مِنْ مُدَّکِر  Is there anyone willing to take admonition from Quran? The Quran has been made easy for this only. In other words Allah is saying that we have not send the Quran in Arabic for you to derive Arabic literature from it, or play tricks with it or run some other business out of it but instead we made the Quran Arabic so that you can understand and take admonition from it. This meaning is again repeated after few verses in verse no 22.

This implies that first this Quran was a concealed book and it was difficult for you to understand. We made this Quran easy and smooth for you. There were two things intended here; one was that man develops and then the Quran comes in his approach or Quran descends and comes down to man. Allah did a kindness with his slaves that they are not going to come upwards hence he brought the Quran to their level and this is what is "Tanzeel" (descend). Descend does not mean inviting someone it means going towards someone. As an example if a Preacher does propagation work in Arabic or Persian language and the audience are not familiar with this language then they will not be able to understand what the Preacher is saying. So now if the preacher asks the people to learn Arabic or Persian in order to understand what he is saying then this will not be descend. Descend will be for the preacher to learn their language; if they understand Urdu he should learn Urdu and if they understand English he should learn English. This task is also necessary because if people were to develop then there was no need for the Preacher since they are not capable of development the preacher has to descend and come down to their level of understanding. In the same way since the people cannot develop and reach the Messengers, the Messenger had to descend and come down to the people.

The Messenger (s) never said to the people that I am a Messenger and if you need something you should come to me and ask your issues in our language but instead He (s) used to walk towards the people himself. He (s) despite of being a Prophet used to come down to the level of ordinary people and in order to come to level of people he used to descend so much that the people started to say بَشَر مِثْلُنَا he is a human being like us.

If a Mujtahid or a Faqeeh (Jurist) says that people should come to me and my level so if people come to your level then they will also become Faqeeh (Jurist) so what would be the need for them to come towards you. You go within people and talk at their level. This is descend. After these explicit verses again in verse number 32 and 40 the same verse is repeated.

'' فَکَیْفَ کَانَ عَذَابِی وَنُذُرِ ٭ ِنَّا َرْسَلْنَا عَلَیْہِمْ صَیْحَةً وَاحِدَةً فَکَانُوا کَہَشِیمِ الْمُحْتَظِرِ ٭ وَلَقَدْ یَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآنَ لِلذِّکْرِ فَہَلْ مِنْ مُدَّکِرٍ ''
How (great) was then My punishment and My warning!
Surely We sent upon them a single cry, so they were like the dry fragments of trees which the maker of an enclosure collects.
And certainly We have made the Quran easy for remembrance, but is there anyone who will mind?

After all these explicit verses does man has the rights to say that Quran is not worthy of understanding? Though the Quran is repeatedly saying یَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآن  We have made this Quran easy for you. We have descended this and got it to your level so are you still not able to understand it? It is like a scholar from Islamic Seminary reaches people and starts to talk in Seminary terminologies and then the people say we are not able to understand what you are saying. On this he leaves all the Seminary terminologies and starts to talk in common man's language but then also they say we are not able to understand you. This clearly means that they have developed some other disease. It is not a difficulty of understanding because now the discussion is at their level. If people say to a scholar that we cannot understand Persian and Arabic but only Punjabi, so if the scholar starts to speak to them in Punjabi then we come to know from here that they are suffering from some other difficulty because the meaning is now expressed in their language and at their level.

This descend means bringing the Quran from the esoteric world to the level of human beings or making it worldly. This means Allah made the heavenly book worldly because if man is worldly than the book should also be of the same world.

Presenting Quran in a non understanding manner

Today there are some who are busy in doing something completely contradictory. The task which Allah did through Jibrael and which got accomplished by the hardships of Prophets due to which Quran became a book of this world from being a book of heavenly world, these people are again busy in making it non worthy of understanding. They give such explanations for every verse which even Jibrael cannot understand. It is similar to the reciters and memorizers of Quran of this era who recite Quran upside down, from left to right, right to left, down to top, top to down, cross, rectangular; even Jibrael could not recite Quran like this and neither did he recited like this.

When a heavenly book has come down on earth it should be expressed in accordance with the realties of this world. It should not be expressed in a way where no relation is seen with this world instead it should be presented in such a manner that the generation of this world should know that this Quran is talking about my issues, it is discussing my problems, it is talking everything related to me. But if its relation is established with the heavenly world, the world of cosmic creation and Laahoot then if man is asked to recite this he will definitely say that these are all talks of heavens, what should I do with this? Let the creation living in the heavenly world, the angels recite this; I am living on this earth hence talk to me about things related to this world.

Quran has used the language of ordinary beings, it has talked in their accent and parables.

One elderly person has written about Poet Hafiz that the biggest difficulty in understanding Hafiz are the interpreters of the poems of Hafiz who have done the exegesis of Hafiz's odes. Similarly the biggest difficulty in understanding Allama Iqbal are the commentators of Iqbal who have done commentaries on the poems of Iqbal. This is because they have expressed one meaning for certain words of Iqbal and have said that Iqbal intended this by his words. The students and other individuals coming later say that just because this past senior personality or Professor has inferred this from Iqbal hence it would be the same only. They are not ready to themselves ponder over the words and works of Iqbal.

This same tragedy has happened with Quran as well whereby one person has expressed one meaning according to his understanding and has written that this verse is for such and such thing or subject. Now he has closed the doors of understanding for others because their approach is just as blind followers. Thus if he has said that this verse is talking about the cosmic world then those coming later also nodded their heads on this meaning. In reality if cosmic world was to be expressed than this book was already present there so what was the need to descend it down on earth? It is like some person visits Pakistan and starts to talk about issues related to Iran; he says the inflation has gone up in Iran, load shedding has also started; on this people will say what kind of person you are? is there no inflation here? Is there no electricity problem here? are the problems here less so why have you started to talk about the problems there. Or if he starts to talk about issues related to Iraq that there is lot of oppression on people there, brutal murder is taking place then on listening to this people will say talk about the murder and killing in the place where you are right now, is there no brutal and mass killing happening in Pakistan? Quran says the same to talk under the context of the land you are here and the realities related to you. Though it is not intended to say that Pakistani's do not have the rights to talk about global affairs what it means is to talk in relevance to the issues surrounding you.

This book which was in heavens was brought down to this world and was given human tone and language so that human being can understand it. Thus giving an impression that Quran is not worthy of understanding is against Quran because Allah says in the Quran یَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآن , we have made it easy for you. So it is still not worthy of understanding for human being?

The grades of understanding Quran

Though with respect to understanding there are different grades of Quran. One is the outward Quran, one is the inward of Quran and then there is an inward of inward. Thus every person will understand to the limit of his understanding. Hence  Quran being made easy and worthy of understanding does not imply that it is worthy of understanding for everyone. An educated or an illiterate person both understand what is rainfall? But everyone has a different understanding about rain. Someone takes rain at a very surface level and some take it very precisely whereas there are some go very deep in understanding it. One says that rain is for crops and my farms will get watered with rain. Second says that with rain temperature will come down hence he desires rain to reduce heat. Third desires water so that the dams can get filled up with it and this way electricity can be produced. But there is one more person who considers rain as a mercy of Allah. Thus everyone has a different sense of understanding, but everyone does understands, no one says that I do not understand what is rain. The Quran has been revealed which means it has been made easy so that everyone can understand it. Now everyone should come at the service of Quran and try to understand it, then see whether you can understand it or not? Everyone can experiment this.

The obstacles in understanding Quran

Once for the sake of propagation I went to another country. There was an Arabic teacher there who has come from Islamic Seminary. He mentioned a very beautiful point. He said that I am a Quran teacher and teach to read Quran. Allah has blessed me with this bounty that I have reached that level of fluency where any person who does not know a single of word of Arabic and has not read Quran ever, I can teach him to recite Quran in twelve classes and after this he will recite Quran fluently. In fact this is a big thing that a person completely not associated with Arabic learns to recite Quran in twelve classes. Though he has kept a condition that this only applies for someone who is totally unacquainted with Arabic and does not know how to read Quran at all. I said if someone knows little Arabic also from before then you should be able to teach him in six classes. He said it will take six months to teach him and that too with utmost difficulty he will learn. Why is this difficulty coming up? This is because his farm is not barren but instead someone has sowed the seeds from before itself thus when you go and plant new seed then it is possible that the already grown plant will not allow your new seed to grow. This happens in every place. Those whose minds are not empty instead are full from before when they are told something it encounters with the already existing concepts present in their mind.

Like the religion learnt in childhood from granny and grandpa, now if the Pure Islam (Islam-e-Naab) is told to them it collides with the religion learnt from granny and grandpa. Hence they do not accept it rather deny it. But in contrary to this those whose minds are empty whatever seed you sow inside; it immediately grows and this is a very important point. Then I told to him that the explanation you are giving me reminds me of tradition of Imam Sadiq (a.s.)

علیکم بالاحداث Nurture your children and teenagers. Imam is interpreting that they are empty farms now and no one has sowed any seed inside them. The one who plants the seed first in them the crop will be his and then you try thousand tactics but the generation will not understand.

The same explanation applies for Quran also. A person who has studied several exegesis of Quran it is very difficult to make him understand Quran but in contrary if you take an ordinary person, a peasant who has not even touched the Quran. You teach him Quran making him sit next to you and then do the translation in his language, then after this ask him if he understood something little. He will definitely say yes. But only if he is not subjugated by the temperament of Bani Israel.

The Bani Israel used to put up new demands every day from Moosa that O Moosa ! '' ادْعُ لَنَا رَبَّکَ '' ask your Lord to descend for us water, manna and quails, grow certain vegetables for us, etc. One day Moosa did completely contradictory to this and said today Allah has demanded from you something and that is َنْ تَذْبَحُوا بَقَرَة  to sacrifice a Cow. Now this is something which an ignorant peasant will also understand and there won't be anyone who will say this sacrificing thing is not clear to us, but the entire community of Bani Israel said Moosa your demand is unclear to us, we do not understand what you are saying? This simple demand of Moosa that Allah wants you to sacrifice a cow could not be understood by them because from the begining itself they have read something and what they have read before was becoming an obstacle. They asked Moosa on what type of cow this should be? Male or female? what kind of tail it should have? about its colour? its horns? At times this situation is developed inside man.

Thus what Allah is saying in the Quran is that یَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآن we have made it easy , simple and worthy of understanding should not be misinterpreted that Quran will be understood by everyone in the same manner. It is never like this instead everyone understands it as per his capacity. The Quran has been revealed at human level, in a language and in form of parables.

But this descend (Tanzeel) has certain pillars towards which we have given a slight indication that descend needs the presence of Jibrael and the enlightened heart of Messenger so that heavenly talks can be transformed to worldly talks else if the same heavenly talks come on the ground as it is; no one will be able to understand it. Thus it is essential to make them worldly for this earth. Since the pure heart of Prophet (s) is two sided; heavenly as well as worldly as compared to our hearts which are only of this world; thus the heavenly words that go inside the heart of Prophet comes out in a worldly manner in front of people and it becomes worthy of understanding by the people.

May Allah bless us with the divine opportunity to understand the Quran with ease and comfort.