Exordium to Coherence in the Qur’ān

The Holy Qur’ān shapes and governs all aspects of the life of the Muslim community - individual and collective, religious and social, political and financial, legal and moral, national and international. It gives meaning to their lives. In Muslim perception, those who dedicate their life to understanding the Qur’ān and explaining it to others earn great respect in this world and everlasting reward in the Afterlife. It raises their religious as well as social status in the Muslim ummah. The Book has therefore attracted the best minds over the last fourteen centuries, who immersed themselves in deciphering its text, deriving legal commands from it, highlighting its social implications, discovering ethical principles and formulating religious dictates from it that govern the Muslims’ individual as well as collective life. Such contributions have in turn further established its relevance to the Muslim’s belief and practice in all ages.