{"id":6336,"date":"2024-07-10T07:42:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/interpretation-of-a-quranic-verse\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:21:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:21:10","slug":"interpretation-of-a-quranic-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/interpretation-of-a-quranic-verse\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpretation Of A Quranic Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I have a question in my mind that I have not been able to figure out.  A verse of the Holy Quran reads:<\/p>\n<p>Say:  &#8220;Call upon Allah, or call upon Rahman: by whatever name ye call upon  Him, (it is well): for to Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. Neither  speak thy Prayer aloud, nor speak it in a low tone, but seek a middle  course between.&#8221; (Al Isra&#8217; 17:110)<\/p>\n<p>What  is the verse referring to and what is the context?  There are various  explanations but I would like to get your opinion on this issue. <\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>We believe that the part of the verse refers to the <em>tahajjud<\/em>  prayer (see 17:78) that was made obligatory for the Holy Prophet (swS)  alone. If we study last part of the Surah we find that the Holy Prophet  (swS) is very frequently addressed. After the mention of the calling to  the Almighty in any of the good names it is said that the Prophet (Sws)  should recite the Holy Qur\u2019\u0101n during his specific prayer in the  prescribed tone. Sometimes the Holy Qur\u2019\u0101n refers to the previous  passage and it is not a rare incident in the Qur\u2019\u0101nic style.<\/p>\n<p>The specific address to the Holy Prophet (swS) with the pronoun \u0643 \u2018ka\u2019 is an obvious indication to this specification. This I say as the same surah (17:78) <em>tahajjud<\/em>  was obligatory for the Prophet and it is totally optional for his  ummah. That is why this accusative pronoun is such a decisive factor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-01-26<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6336\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a question in my mind that I have not been able to figure out.  A verse of the Holy Quran reads:<\/p>\n<p>Say:  &#8220;Call upon Allah, or call upon Rahman: by whatever name ye call upon  Him, (it is well): for to Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. Neither  speak thy Prayer aloud, nor speak it in a low tone, but seek a middle  course between.&#8221; (Al Isra&#8217; 17:110)<\/p>\n<p>What  is the verse referring to and what is the context?  There are various  explanations but I would like to get your opinion on this issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1389],"tags":[2167,1697,2168],"class_list":["post-6336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quranic-exegesis","tag-allah","tag-name","tag-rahman"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Interpretation Of A Quranic Verse - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/interpretation-of-a-quranic-verse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Interpretation Of A Quranic Verse - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have a question in my mind that I have not been able to figure out. 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