The Wisdom
The word الۡحِكۡمَةَ has been translated in many different ways.
The literal meanings of word الۡحِكۡمَةَ (Ul-hik-mah) include the following. Ability to distinguish good from bad, right from wrong. Administered appropriate instruction. Balancing power. Comprehension. Intelligence. Understanding. Shrewdness. Many verses including the 002:130, 002:152, 002:232, 002:270 and o62:003 have been translated with those meanings of the word.
But quoting an the Tafsir At-Tabari, the eminent scholars Dr Al-Hilali and Dr Khan have translated this word in the verse 002:252 as the ‘Prophethood’ and stated as follows. “Allah gave him[Dawud (David)] the kingdom[after the death of Talut (Saul) and Samuel] and Al-Hikmah (Prophethood) and taught him of that which He willed.”
The word الۡحِكۡمَةَ (Ul-hik-mah) has also been translated as the ‘Knowledge of Islamic laws and jurisprudence.’ Such interpretation is supported by the verse 003:066 because Abraham (a) had prayed that way many centuries before Islam and b) had practically made a forecast about the coming of the Holy Prophet s.a.w and advent of Islam.
Construing Abraham’s aforesaid prayer and forecast to translate this word as ‘Knowledge of Islamic laws and jurisprudence’ is open to the criticism (albeit unjustified in spirit) that what Abraham had sought by his invocation many centuries before Islaam was not and could not be about Islam.
All above extrapolations are plausible in translating this word in verse 002:270.
The Wisdom
The Wisdom
The word الۡحِكۡمَةَ has been translated in many different ways.
The literal meanings of word الۡحِكۡمَةَ (Ul-hik-mah) include the following. Ability to distinguish good from bad, right from wrong. Administered appropriate instruction. Balancing power. Comprehension. Intelligence. Understanding. Shrewdness. Many verses including the 002:130, 002:152, 002:232, 002:270 and o62:003 have been translated with those meanings of the word.
But quoting an the Tafsir At-Tabari, the eminent scholars Dr Al-Hilali and Dr Khan have translated this word in the verse 002:252 as the ‘Prophethood’ and stated as follows. “Allah gave him[Dawud (David)] the kingdom[after the death of Talut (Saul) and Samuel] and Al-Hikmah (Prophethood) and taught him of that which He willed.”
The word الۡحِكۡمَةَ (Ul-hik-mah) has also been translated as the ‘Knowledge of Islamic laws and jurisprudence.’ Such interpretation is supported by the verse 003:066 because Abraham (a) had prayed that way many centuries before Islam and b) had practically made a forecast about the coming of the Holy Prophet s.a.w and advent of Islam.
Construing Abraham’s aforesaid prayer and forecast to translate this word as ‘Knowledge of Islamic laws and jurisprudence’ is open to the criticism (albeit unjustified in spirit) that what Abraham had sought by his invocation many centuries before Islaam was not and could not be about Islam.
All above extrapolations are plausible in translating this word in verse 002:270.
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