Misconception about the Qur'an

19-5-2002 | IslamWeb

Question:

What is your opinion concerning the incident of 11th September. Some people believe that it is mentioned in the verse 109 in Surah At-Taubah?

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Answer:

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the World; and may His blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions.

Some people tried to connect this two Qur'anic verses from Surah At-Taubah linking them with 11/09/2001 events in US. Allah Says (interpretation of meaning): {Is it then he who laid the foundation of his building on piety to Allah and His Good Pleasure better, or he who laid the foundation of his building on the brink of an undetermined precipice ready to crumble down, so that it crumbled to pieces with him into the Fire of Hell. And Allah guides not the people who are the Zalimun (cruel, violent, proud, polytheist and wrong-doer).} [9:109]. He also Says: {The building which they built will never cease to be a cause of hypocrisy and doubt in their hearts unless their hearts are cut to pieces. (i.e. till they die). And Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.} [9:110].
But we should know that Qur'anic interpretation must rely on the fixed basis of the interpretations narrated from the Messenger of Allah (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam), because he is one who explains Qur'an, or that interpretation is transmitted from the companions (Radiya Allahu Anhum), the ancestors or it is a opinion of the Islamic scholars who are well-known by their knowledge and God-fearing or it is been taken from the Arabic language and the objectives of Shari'a. So these are the foundations for the interpretations, narrated or approved by Shari'a.
There is nothing transmitted or recorded by the Islamic scholars of the past and the present to link this two Ayats with this event. So as long we don't have anything that proves that, it cannot be said that these events are an interpretation of the mentioned Qur'anic verses.
But it is not opposed if we include the 11/09/2001 event in our understanding of these verses, as long as we know it is not its original meaning.
Allah knows best.