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Surah 17 · Verse 39

That is from what your Lord has inspired to you of the wisdom. Do not make with God another god, or you will be cast into hell, blameworthy and rejected.

Translation endnotes

[17:39] The followers of hadith and sunna claim that Muhammed was given both the Quran and Wisdom, the latter being delivered in hadith books. For those who know the nature of hadith collections, this is clearly not a wise statement. The verse expressly states that the Wisdom is not separate from the Quran; it is in the Quran. We cannot divorce the Quran from wisdom and make a mockery of "wisdom" by using it to sanctify contradictory hearsay accounts and medieval culture. Besides, the fabricators of hadith were not "wise" enough to name their fabrications "Wisdom," since they picked a wrong word, hadith, which is negatively treated by the Quran when it is used for any other utterance besides the Quran (6:112-116; 33:38). Furthermore, one of the attributes of the Quran is hakym, which means "wise." See 9:31; 17:46; 18:26; 36:1; 42:21.

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