By Imam al-Nawawi Translated by Shaykh Musa Furber Explicating the Quran It is unlawful for someone to explicate the Quran without knowledge and the qualification to speak about its meanings. The hadiths concerning this are many, and there is consensus on this. It is permissible and fitting that only scholars explicate [the Quran]; there is consensus concerning this as well. When someone is qualified to explicate the Quran—one who gathers all the tools through which [the Quran’s] meanings are known and the intended meaning is particularly apparent to him—he may indeed explicate it, if it is something attained through independent…