A057
Surah: 010 - Ayah: 057
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10:57
Allama (7) (He taught)
The wise Qur’an is the speech of God and His unique and miraculous Book. Therefore, it has numerous kinds of manifestations of knowledge and wisdom. One of these manifestations is in the form of science, because one of the names of the Qur'an is shifa' (healing) (10:57) and another is Hikmat (wisdom) (54:5). If the Qur'an is wisdom (spiritual science) from the beginning to the end, then spiritual science definitely started with the science of the names taught to Hazrat Adam.
In verse (10:57), regarding healing it is said: “O mankind! there has come to you an exhortation (i.e. the Book) from your Lord, and a healing (medicine) for those (diseases of bad deeds) in the breasts (hearts) and a guidance, and a mercy for the believers”. That is, the wise Qur’an is medicine in its entirety. In the beginning, it is the medicine of exhortation, then that of guidance and finally that of mercy, so that the people may progress gradually towards the level of perfection of the health of heart and may attain those pure and sublime bounties and favours, which are for the sound hearts in the proximity and presence of God, the Exalted (26:89).
A special form of the (Divine) mercy is the Qur’an and the light of the Qur’an (10:57, 5:15). The spirit and spirituality and knowledge and recognition of the Qur’an were also in the Scriptures of the earlier communities (26:196), and now all of them are, in a way, in the Qur’an (5:48). For, according to the law of unity, as all the teachers of the Scriptures, being transferred from one into another are linked to their supreme luminous centre, namely the holy Prophet, all Scriptures being transferred into one another are gathered in the great Qur’an. For no system can survive without the existence of a centre and central pull.
One of the blessed names of the holy Qur’an is Maw`izah (10:57) which means exhortation, goodwill and well-wishing. This reveals the secret that goodwill is the supreme virtue. It is because of this that it is one of the names of the wise Qur’an. Another name of the glorious Qur’an is Dhikr (21:50), which also means exhortation and goodwill. Further, since goodwill is a characteristic of the Prophets (7:68), it is necessary for it to be the characteristic of the mu'min as well (9:91).
This verse has been referred 7 times.