Transliteration:( Laa yaateehil baatilu mim baini yadaihi wa laa min khalfihee tanzeelum min Hakeemin Hameed )
113 From this we understand that every Companion is a true trustworthy and a pious person. IF they were not true helievers then they would not have been entrusted with the compilation and propagation of the Holy QURAAN anyone who says that the Companions have added or deleted any verses is an infidel.
Almighty Allah has created Huffaz for the protection of the words/text of the Holy QUR'AAN, the Qaries for the protection of its recitation, the Ulama for the protection of its meaning and for the mystical meaning of the QUR'AAN, He has created the Saints. These persons are a strong fortress of the Holy QUR'AAN, who do not allow falsehood to come near it.
114. This means the Holy QUR'AAN is protected from all sides. There is a strong watchful eye over its text, its mystical meanings and its ordinances. Its words can never change. However, some mischief-makers try to distort its meanings, but they cannot succeed in it.
The tafsir of Surah Fussilat verse 42 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Fussilat ayat 40 which provides the complete commentary from verse 40 through 43.
(41:42) Falsehood may not enter it from the front or from the rear.[52] It is a revelation that has been sent down from the Most Wise, the Immensely Praiseworthy.
52 “Falsehood . . . . from before it” means that none can succeed in proving anything wrong or any teaching false in the Quran by making a frontal attack on it; “nor from behind it” means that nothing can be discovered till Resurrection which may be opposed to the truths and realities presented by the Quran; no new science, if it is really a science, can be propounded, which may contradict the knowledge contained in the Quran; no new experiment or observation can be made to prove that the guidance given to man by the Quran in respect of the beliefs, morality, law, civilization or culture, and economic, social and political life is wrong. That which this Book has declared as the truth can never be proven to be falsehood and that which it has declared as falsehood can never be proven to be the truth. Furthermore, it also means that whether falsehood makes a frontal attack, or makes a surprise attack by deception, it cannot defeat the message which the Quran has brought. In spite of all sorts of open and secret machinations of the opponents the message will spread and none shall be able to defeat and frustrate it.
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