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How to Explore the Quran
اليوم ٦: Tafsir and Lessons
As we said earlier, the Quran experts are “explorers and explainers” of the Quran. They share with the rest of us in the first part (diving into the world of the Quran), but then we depend on them to provide authoritative explanations based on an established range of scholarly tools.
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Here on Quran.com, you can access several works of Tafsir (scholarly exegesis) in Arabic and other languages. [This collection is set to grow, and we will also reorganize the material to better reflect the fact that those scholars were providing answers to questions about the Quran’s meaning.]
You can also find a growing bank of Lessons (within the Reflections category) which come from contemporary teachers of the Quran. These are more about the things which we should learn from the ayah, with some connection to its established meanings.
It is definitely worthwhile to dip into these explanatory resources. A few things to note about the Tafsir texts available:
They can range from very simple to quite complex, and there may be points of debate that highlight the openness of the Quranic text to different interpretations. Whenever the meaning was made clear by the Prophet (on whom be peace), the Companions, or the consensus of the scholars, this will be provided.
Classical works were not generally written for a lay readership, and they are not always ideally suited to being translated. The translations we feature of Arabic or Urdu works are sometimes abridged and may contain inaccuracies. [This situation will be overhauled in the near future.]