A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Regarding the status of the science of Qur’anic exegesis, Imam Abu Musa Muhammad ibn ‘Umar al-Aswfahani ( r.a. ) stated, “The noblest craft in which a person partakes is the exegesis of the Qur’an.  This is because the nobility of a science is due to the nobility of its subject matter, its aim, or the need for it, and exegesis possesses nobility in all three respects: its subject matter is Allah’s ( s.w.t. ) Speech, its aim is to obtain true and eternal happiness, and as for the need for it, every religious or worldly perfection, immediate or distant, requires religious science and knowledge which is dependent on knowledge of Allah’s ( s.w.t. ) Book.”