Verse 114
The Poets • makkah
View Aspects
Commentary:
The Quran has used five different words at different places and in different contexts to suit the particular occasion and to explain fully the meaning. In a general sense they are all alike but as regards their finer shades of meaning they are different. The words are شعور i.e. perceiving a thing by means of any of the senses to know its minute particulars (2:155); عقل i.e. withholding or restraining a person from adopting an evil course (12:3); فکر i.e. reflecting upon and calculating a thing (6:51); تفقه i.e. applying oneself to the acquisition of knowledge and becoming well versed in it (9:122), and تدبر i.e. considering, examining or studying a thing repeatedly in order to know it (4:83).
The Qur’an has used five different words at different places and in different contexts to suit the particular occasion and to explain fully the meaning thereof; in a general sense they are all alike but as regards their finer shades of meaning they are different. The words are Shu‘ur, i.e. perceiving a thing by means of any of the senses to know its minute particulars (2:155); ‘Aql, i.e. withholding or restraining a person from adopting an evil course (12:3); Fikr, i.e. reflecting upon and calculating a thing (6:51); Tafaqquh, i.e. applying oneself to the acquisition of knowledge and becoming well-versed in it (9:122); and Tadabbur, i.e. considering, examining or studying a thing repeatedly in order to know it (4:83).