Transliteration:( Fa-aaminoo billaahi wa rasoolihee wannooril lazeee anzalnaa; wallaahu bima ta'maloona khabeer )
18. From this order of narration there is a hint that belief in the Holy Prophet ? as before the Holy Qur'aan. For this reason a person is made to recite the Kalimah and not the Qur'aan, at the time of making him Muslim.
In order to reveal the characteristics of things, the Holy Qur'aan is a light, but for the Holy Qur'aan is a itself, the Holy Prophet ? light.
Says Allah Almighty: "There has come to you from Allah a light and a Book, luminous" (S5:V15). Laws of Shariah are understood from the Qur'aan, but the Qur'aan itself is understood from the teachings of the Holy Prophet ?.
19. On the Night of Power the Holy Qur'aan was brought down from the Divine Tablet to the first worldly heaven and from here it was gradually revealed to the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلمover a period of twenty-three years. Thus, there is no inconsistency in the statement of: "We sent it down" and "We have sent down".
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Please refer to Surah Taghabun ayat 7 which provides the complete commentary from verse 7 through 11.
(64:8) So believe in Allah and in His Messenger and in the Light that We have sent down.[18] Allah is fully aware of what you do.
18. That is, when this is the truth and the whole human history testifies that the real cause of the destruction of the nations has been their disbelieving the Messengers and their denial of the Hereafter, then they should not insist on meeting the same doom by following their example, but should believe in the guidance presented by Allah and His Messenger and the Quran. Here, as the context itself shows, by the light that We have sent down, means the Quran. Just as light itself is clearly seen and reveals everything that was hidden in darkness around it, so is the Quran a light whose being based on the truth is self-evident; in its light man can solve and understand every problem that he cannot solve and understand exclusively by means of his own knowledge and intellect. Anyone who has the light can clearly see the straight path of truth out of the countless, crooked paths of thought and action, and can follow the straight path throughout life in such a way that at every step he can know where the crooked bypaths are misleading and where the pitfalls of destruction are situated on the way, and what is the path of safety and security among them.
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