Translators and exegetes have no right to insert their intellect and memories in target text
We have read in the topic "Plagiarism is a cognizable crime" that associating or ascribing any statement with the Discourse-Parlance-Book of Allah the Exalted is a serious crime. One can do it by borrowing statements of writers or by recalling information and knowledge one may have saved in his memory up to a certain point in time.
We have read that the aristocracy had decided to use underhand deceptive tactics of spreading conjectures and palavers; obviously by employing the scholars and learned people of the society, to keep people away from Grand Qur'aan and thus retain their hegemony.
Prior to it they had made soft attempts to avoid the spread of Grand Qur'aan:
And when You the Messenger [Muhammad Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam] did not come to them with a new Ayah: Unitary Verbal Passage of Qur'aan, they said: "Why have you not yourself gathered-compiled it?"
You the Messenger [Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam] tell them: "Indeed I practically follow in letter and spirit the Qur'aan which is communicated to me by my Sustainer Lord".
This Qur'aan is evocative luminous enlightenments: Verbal passages enabling mental imaging communicated by your Sustainer Lord.
And it is guidance: regulatory information for aright conduct and an act of Mercy-Blessing for the people who accept and believe." [7:203]
They also attempted that the Qur'aan might be substituted by a self drafted book:
Know the facts of the days of revelation of Qur'aan: When Our Aaya'at: Unitary Verbal Passages of miscellany of Qur'aan characteristically explicitly explicative were relayed to them word by word:
Those of them who were not believing about their presentation before Our Majesty for accountability demanded saying:
"You [Muhammad Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam] come to us with some readable material-book which should be other than this Qur'aan; or you change-substitute contents of this Qur'aan".
You [Muhammad Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam] answer them: "It is not permitted and befitting for me that I might change-amend this Qur'aan with my personal intellect-information-knowledge saved in the memory heard and gained in life till this point in time.
I only practically follow in letter and spirit Grand Qur'aan which is communicated to me.
I am afraid of the punishment of Great Day if I were to refuse to accept the word of My Sustainer Lord." [10:15]
A group of people have apparently given two options but the end objective is the same. "Bring some compilation-book other than this Qur'aan"; or "amend/change this Qur'aan". They have disclosed their intentions that the Grand Qur'aan is not acceptable to them. However, if the exalted Messenger brings them some other book authored by him they would readily accept it.
Allah the Exalted forbids;
supposedly the elevated
Messenger
صلى الله عليه وسلم
had agreed to change/amend the Qur'aan;
what faculty could have helped him for
doing it? The answer
of the Last Messenger has clarified what nobility were demanding from him.
A person can amend/change the substance described
in a book by applying faculty denoted by two possessive phrases:
.
At a given point in time this is the sum total of
information/sayings/stories/events/feelings/knowledge that is
stored in one's memory which had created perceptions and awarded
intellect. This is the sum total of memories inscribed in one's mind
which had come to his perception by that point in time in life through
the faculty of listening and seeing granting him
knowledge/intellect/wisdom.
A man has visible identification, his apparent body.
His person is invisible-hidden in the thoughts and
perceptions/intellect/wisdom psyche/understanding/beliefs stored
in the memory and comprehensively and precisely infolded in the Arabic
words:
:
It are two successive possessive
phrases.
:
It is
comprising of:
and first person singular pronoun. It reflects the sum total of visible and
hidden aspects of a personality. It also refers to
knowledge/wisdom/brain/faculty of analysis. The true/real personality of a man
is not the visible structure/skeleton/body but the brain and heart which are
locus of knowledge/perceptions/intellect/wisdom.
Root of:
is "ل ق ى".
The basic concept infolded is the act of facing a thing, encountering and
meeting it, or finding it; and perceiving it by listening and seeing.
For doing anything including amending/changing the Qur'aan, the Last
Messenger had to retrieve information/knowledge from his brain and
"confront/meet" it in his chest before he could articulate the amended
version or write it with his right hand.
We are now aware that for saying
words or doing an act we have to cut/retrieve information from the memory of the
brain and confront/meet it. Deliberately and consciously nothing can be said or
done unless data is earlier available in the memory of the brain and it could be
retrieved.
The elevated Last Messenger categorically and emphatically turned down their desire for writing something from his own perception/ knowledge/understanding and instead emphasized that all his sayings and actions are restricted to the following of that which is revealed in the Qur'aan. He was asked to confront people with a simple known and undeniable fact:
You the Messenger [Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam] further tell them: "Had it been the will of Allah the Exalted, I would not have recited to you the Qur'aan and nor He would have made it known to you people.
Realize it as you indeed know I have lived a lifetime amongst you people before this Qur'aan.
Is it for reason that you do not ponder-use intellect to differentiate?" [10:16]
The elevated Messenger of Allah the Exalted did not oblige the desires of his contemporary aristocrats to draft a statement other than Qur'aan. Allah the Exalted informed:
And their purpose-resolve-attempt was to try you the Messenger [Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam] about that which We have sent to you. They intended that you might formulate something other than Qur'aan relating it upon Our Majesty.
And the moment had you obliged them with some statement other than Qur'aan they would have there and then certainly admitted you as an intimate friend. [17:73] [Read with 7:203;10:15-16]
It is thus plainly evident that a group of people did not have any genuine suspicion about the source of the Book but wanted that something other than the Qur'aan be said by the Last Messenger. The people who suspect the apparent facts evident and manifest like the daybreak do not in fact have any suspicion in their minds but just pretend suspicious to find an excuse for denying it. The Last Messenger disappointed them. Being frustrated in not getting what they wanted they decided to target Qur'aan to restrict its efficacy as we discussed in Grand Qur'aan: the book most feared by ruling elite and coterie intelligentsia.
The elevated Messenger of Allah the Exalted had categorically denied adding to or altering a single word of Qur'aan. Therefore, whoever adds or alters any word and statement of Qur'aan while translating or writing exegeses in target language whereby general public might be misled as if it is mentioned in Qur'aan, he will be guilty of a serious crime.
Grand Qur'aan: the book most feared by ruling elite and
coterie intelligentsia.