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Surah 20 · Verse 114

Then High above all is God, the King, the Truth. Do not be hasty with the Quran before its inspiration is completed to you, and say, "My Lord, increase my knowledge."

Translation endnotes

[20:114] A Quranic statement or phrase that we do not understand upon a first reading might become clear upon the second or later readings. To understand some verses, one might need to read the entire Quran and get its perspective. We might sometimes come to the understanding of a verse years later with an instantaneous inspiration. If we use the analogy of a radio, the Quran is like a radio station with a powerful and clear broadcast, and we are like a radio device receiving its message. The false doctrines and practices we inherit from the past and the environment might create static interference or background noise and prevent us from hearing the divine message more clearly. Besides, our tuning, the condition of the transistor, the power of our battery, and the direction of our antenna, all the factors that are affected by our attitude, prejudice, interest and knowledge level, might prevent us from hearing well, or understanding well. The radios that are made by "hadith and sunna" have defective designs, and the radios that automatically tune to the "hadith and sunna" station while also trying to tune to the Quran station, have too much noise; they all condemn themselves to receive the message with plenty of noise and interruptions (2:20;).

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Translation

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