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I AM CLOSER TO YOU THAN YOURSELFThe Answer to two Questions

The eleventh verse speaks about God’s knowledge about the evident and hidden conditions of mankind as well the unseen on earth and in the heavens. It says, “Verily your Lord knows best what enshrouds their breasts and what they declare.” The verse goes on to says, “Nothing that is hidden in the heavens and the earth but (recorded) in a manifest Book.” The subtle hint about “your God’. Is it possible that He who is the arranger and creator is unaware of the manifest and hidden conditions? This is the proof of God being the only with complete knowledge.

The origin of “Takun” is “Kin” and it means a screen or anything that is used to hide something else. This is why the term “Lord knows best what enshrouds their breasts” As we have mentioned earlier the breast and heart have been taken to mean as soul and intellect in many interpretations of the Qura’n.

The word “Ghaibah” here may refer to the extraordinary things that are unseen. The “Ta” may have been used for personification as in the word “Allama” (1)

The word ‘Mubeen” has been used to denote what is evident and clear in places but here it means in the Clear Book or the celestial tablet which displays all truth (2)

 


 

1. Some commentators like Zamakhshri in Tafsir Kashaf believe and favor it neither as a name nor as a condition like “Aqiba” or Zabeeh. A group of commentators have been quoted in Tafsir Kashaf vol. 3 page 382 to have mentioned both the interpretations.
2. Some say that the origin of the word “Mobeen” is “Bayan”. It means the truth after the separation of the ambiguous from the fact. So it has been taken to mean ascertained as well separated.

 

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