Why the Prophet didn't teach tafsir of each ayat? | Mufti Abu Layth

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mufti someone sent a really interesting super chat why didn't the prophet compose his own tough seed why couldn't a sahabi sit with him and go through each ayah that is a very good question uh inaya whoever sent that um you see in many ways people don't see this as a um as a curse or as something unfortunate see the blessing in it you see if everything became defined it would have restricted everything and the fact that it was

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left to human understanding to be able to read it in light of their own day and age is what gives the quran its kind of timelessness see the problem with defining everything it would be in essence placing parameters on everything and don't let that i don't think we need to do that because i think humans are infinitely um you know we are not only

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different but but mysterious in our own ways that we have a we we find a sense of mystery that may be unique to us in life and yet when we read the quran it gives us the meaning that we may need from it just like just like many things like let's say poetry you could take a unique meaning from it some poetry is more vague at times and the nature of the quran is it's quite unbounded like that it's you know it doesn't

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um give always definitives it it kind of answers something but leaves a lot of room a lot of leeway for people to maneuver this maneuverability is what makes it even more meaningful for more for more people because you might come to the quran and take a meaning that helps you in your life and i might read it and somebody

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, March 9). Why the Prophet didn't teach tafsir of each ayat? | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f-ozstwmra8/

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