HUMAN LANGUAGE AND QURAN

Every language belongs to the natural and zoological side . Language can be analyzed scientifically and even by strict mathematical methods. This is a characteristic of science. Language is the 'hand of the brain. Allah revealed Quran to the humankind and they are erroneous even their languages are arbitrary. It is not the problem of the divine wish but it is the problem to transform divine intention in human language.

That is why Allah said, "It belongs not to any mortal that God should speak to him, except by revelation, or from behind a veil, or that He should send a messenger and he reveal whatsoever He will, by His leave; surely He is All-high, All-wise" (42:51). But wot Allah did instead? As He said, "We have made it an Arabic Quran in order that you understand". (43:3).

Allah made it clear for humankind in their language.

We know Religious faith is an existential conviction, which may dawn suddenly or gradually, like love, rather than a belief, which could be inductively or deductively established or proved. Again, the religious response to the universe is strikingly similar to, though not identical with or totally reducible to, the aesthetic response.

Significantly, the Quran repeatedly exhorts man to reflect upon the beauty and wonder of nature and also of man’s own inner self. The verses of the Quran and the phenomena of nature both are called ‘ayat’ or signs, which may evoke and reinforce faith in Allah for one who seeks truth with sincerity.

This mathematical number has been mentioned in the Quran as guidance to the mankind where Allah said the Quran is the signs (Ayats) for mankind. Intention of Allah is divine and infinite but this divine intention is addressed at humankind who can understand by their own erroneous communication.

Therefore, Quran is revealed in human language and Languages have logical grammar. Human languages need interpretation. No human languages can be final. Thus, the infallibility of divine revelation of its interpretations are not same. That is why theories of revelation and the interpretation of revealed Quranic texts both requires a conceptual framework which is bound to change as human knowledge and insight grow and man's analytical tools improve. Every natural language uses expressions in literal sense as well as in non-literal sense found in similes, allegories, metaphors, phrases, idioms, proverbs, anecdotes, parables and so on.

The language of the Quran has to do it too. As Allah said it.

"Indeed we have struck for the people in this Quran every manner of similitude; haply they will remember; Quran, wherein there is no crookedness; haply they will be god-fearing". (39:27-28).

Again, Allah said:

“And (it is) a Quran which I have divided into parts in order that you (Muhammad) may recite it to the people gradually, and I have revealed it by successive revelation."[Noble Quran 17:106]

But contention that adherence to literal meaning without contextual exploration is not enough should not be taken to mean or imply any difference to the literal meaning of the Quranic text. Thus speculative interpretation of Quranic verses to suit one’s own ideas is highly improper. Quran said,

“It is He who sent down upon thee the Book, wherein are verses clear that are the Essence of the Book, and others ambiguous. As for those in whose hearts is swerving, they follow the ambiguous part, desiring dissension, and desiring its interpretation; and none knows its interpretation, save only God. And those firmly rooted in knowledge say, 'We believe in it; all is from our Lord'; yet none remembers, but men possessed of minds”. (3:7)....