۱.۴ روش تفسیر
1.4 The Method Of Tafseer
قرآن آخرین کتاب وحی الهی است که برای انسان فرستاده شده، و خداوند وعده داده است که آن را از هرگونه تحریف یا گم شدن حفظ کند. او در قرآن فرموده است:
The Qur’aan is the last book of divine revelation sent to man, and Allaah has promised to protect it from any distortion or loss. He said in the Qur’aan:
«إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحَافِظُونَ» ۶۵
“Verily, I have revealed the Reminder (Qur’aan) and verily I will preserve it.” 65
its written and recited forms have been preserved without even the slightest change for over fourteen hundred years, as has been mentioned in previous chapters. This cannot be said about the Gospel of Prophet Jesus (r), nor the books of the Old Testament attributed to earlier prophets, nor any other scripture revealed by Allaah. However, Allaah's protection of the Qur'aan did not stop there; He also safeguarded the original meaning. If the protection of the Qur'aan's meaning had not taken place, deviants would have turned the Book of Allaah into a jumble of symbols, riddles and codes open to a multiplicity of interpretations, and its original meaning would have been lost. Allaah preserved the meaning of the Qur'aan by explaining some of its generalities within the Qur'aan itself and by entrusting the tafseer of the remainder to His Messenger, Muhammad ibn Abdillaah ﷺ (570-632 CE).