Many secrets are wisely hidden from us

“Many secrets are wisely hidden from us. If the future were known to us, we need not necessarily be happy. In many cases we should be miserable. If the inner meaning of some things we see before our eyes were disclosed to us, it might cause a lot of mischief. Allah’s Message, insofar as it is necessary for shaping our conduct, is plain and open to us. But there are many things too deep for us to understand, either individually or collectively. It would be foolish to pry into them, as some people tried to do in the time of the Prophet. Where a matter is mentioned in the Qur’an, we can reverently ask for its meaning. That is not forbidden. But we should never pass the bounds of (1) our own capacity to understand, (2) the time and occasions when we ask questions, and (3) the part of the Universal Plan which it is Allah’s purpose to reveal to us”

Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur’an


 

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