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Did Prophet Muhammad PBUH Interpret The Message Of God?
Assalamualaikum
An interpretation of something includes touch of one’s own mind while understanding another. But in the case of Prophets (Peace Be Upon Them), who used to also apply the Islam. So can we say that Prophets PBUT used to tell the right meaning and will of Allah and didn’t used to include what we call interpretation in any sense?
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Did Prophet Muhammad PBUH Interpret The Message Of God?
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Why is that important to know? We have been given the Quran and the Sunnah by Prophet SAW with the sanction of God. That should be good enough for us to understand the message of God and adapt our lives to it so that we may be saved in the hereafter. Anything we say in order to directly answer your question would not only be speculative, but it wouldn’t add anything of value to our understanding.
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Sorry, I couldn’t explain in a good way. But the question arises from this:
Al-Quran
Surah No. 8 – Ayah No. 67
أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ
بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
مَا كَانَ لِنَبِىٍّ اَنۡ يَّكُوۡنَ لَهٗۤ اَسۡرٰى حَتّٰى يُثۡخِنَ فِى الۡاَرۡضِؕ تُرِيۡدُوۡنَ عَرَضَ الدُّنۡيَا ۖ وَاللّٰهُ يُرِيۡدُ الۡاٰخِرَةَ ؕ وَاللّٰهُ عَزِيۡزٌ حَكِيۡمٌ ۞
Translation:
It behoves not a Prophet to take captives until he has sufficiently suppressed the enemies in the land. You merely seek the gains of the world whereas Allah desires (for you the good) of the Hereafter. Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.
Like Prophet SAW was from who had opinion to take fidyah, but Allah said “It behoves not a Prophet ……….”
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Prophets are always under continuous protection and guidance of Allah, if by any chance Prophet (SWS) had done any wrong ijtihad, Allah would’ve corrected it. That is why, it is being said that Knowledge of Prophet Muhammad (SWS) was infallible.
The verse quoted above is not in the context as implied:
مَا كَانَ لِنَبِيٍّ أَنْ يَكُوْنَ لَهُ أَسْرَى حَتَّى يُثْخِنَ فِي الْأَرْضِ تُرِيْدُوْنَ عَرَضَ الدُّنْيَا وَاللّهُ يُرِيْدُ الْآخِرَةَ وَاللّهُ عَزِيْزٌ حَكِيْمٌ. لَّوْلَا كِتَابٌ مِّنَ اللّهِ سَبَقَ لَمَسَّكُمْ فِيْمَا أَخَذْتُمْ عَذَابٌ عَظِيْمٌ.
[These people object that you have launched this offensive to capture prisoners and take ransom from them. In reality,] it is not befitting for any prophet that he capture prisoners so that he even causes bloodshed in the land [for it].[40] [People of the Quraysh!]
It is you who want the goods of this world; God only wants the Hereafter. And God is powerful and very wise. Had God’s verdict not been written down before [that you should be given some more respite,] a great torment would have visited you because of the attitude you have adopted. (Quran 8:67-68)
(Excerpt from Quranic Exegesis: Javed Ahmed Ghamidi)
(Translated by Dr. Shehzad Saleem)
Footnote [40]: The verse begins with the words مَا كَانَ. This style can be adopted to blame as well as to dispel blame. Here it is used in the latter sense. The Quraysh had attacked Madinah on the excuse that Muslims wanted to plunder their trade caravan. When they lost the battle of Badr, then in order to protect their people from its evil effect they stirred the propaganda that their fear was true: when these Muslims were not able to loot the caravan, they captured prisoners and demanding ransom from them; slaves of this world have always stuck to these ways while prophets of God never do such things. Here the Qur’an has answered this propaganda: prophets of God never wage war to capture prisoners and to obtain money from them; it is only when they are compelled to wage war for a justified objective do they do so to capture prisoners and get hold of spoils of war in order to punish criminals against whom they were compelled to wage war. Thus, at this instance too, if bloodshed ensued it was not to capture prisoners on ransom but to punish the leaders of the Quraysh for their rebelliousness and this will continue until the persecution they were guilty of is eliminated and only God’s religion reigns supreme in Arabia. It is this fate that they have now become worthy of once a messenger of God has conclusively conveyed the truth to them.
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For further details on Prophet’s (SWS) infallible knowledge and Prophet’s (SWS) Ijtihad, please refer to the video below from 10:51 to 16:40
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