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1. Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (p) or Imam Jafar as-Sadiq (p) explained
the verse: ...And none knows its true hidden interpretation except
God and those firmly rooted in knowledge… (Q, 3:7)
The Imam (p): Prophet Muhammad (p) is the most excellent of those
firmly rooted in knowledge. God, to whom belong Might and Majesty,
has taught him the meaning and the interpretation of the revelation
that He sent. And God did not send him anything whose hidden interpretation
He has not taught him. And his successors know all of it (i.e. interpretation).
When a man of knowledge reveals the interpretation, those who do
not know readily acknowledge it as God’s words: …They
say, we believe in it, all is from our Lord… (Q, 3:7). The
verses of the Noble Quran are specific and general, established
and unambiguous, abrogating and abrogated; because of this (only)
those who are firmly rooted in knowledge know it.
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