I said 'almost correct' about the interpretation and the translation, not about the Quran which is perfect and infallible and as a whole correct in its entirety.That has to mean some of it is not correct. Aside from that, it seems intrinsically unreasonable to me that if Allah wanted to get a clear message to mankind that he wouldn't have done so in the original. Islam does claim that the Quran is the last and most perfect revelation from a perfect being, why wasn't its meaning perfectly clear from the beginning? Allah shouldn't be so fuzzy minded that he can't make himself clear. It shouldn't require the elaborate and time consuming efforts al-Hilly and you, and probably thousands of others over the last 1500 years or so, have put into trying to interpret what it really means.
There could hardly be better that the Quran is not in fact a divine revelation, but a human creation.
So the Quran is like the Ten Commandments in being from God: word by word.
The interpreter of the Quran - salam be to his soul - was inspired and said to me: "There is an angel who recites to me and I write down."
And he told me about a narration that says: "The Mahdi has an angel that instructs him from where he does not see him."
But this was not the fact always: there were many instances when I asked him about some ayat, and he said: "I don't know." Another time he said: "I don't know; see it written down in the interpretation."
I said: "Aren't you the one who wrote it?"
He said: "Yes, but it is the [extensive and marvelous and deep meaning] Quran."
Once he said: "I am not the author; I only write what I hear [from the angel.]"
To let you understand this subject: It took him more than 45 years: from before the year 1947 till his death in the year 1991 to write The Quran Interpretation and its introductive book: (The Universe and the Quran) and (Man after Death) and (The Explanation of the Ambiguous Ayat of the Quran)
I understood that he reached his knowledge by:
1- Inspiration and revelation by the angel: the Messiah and another angel: Gabriel or another one or more?
2- God let him understand many subjects.
3- by God's consultation in many subjects.
4- by showing him the practical display of some problems and their solution: the meaning of some ayat.
5- by letting someone understand the solution to a problem and in this way he gets the knowledge about some ayat.
6- by referring to some commentators and their commentation, and by referring to the meaning of the words in the Arab poetry (specially the pre-Islam poetry and the early Islamic period) and in many extensive dictionaries.
7- by referring to parables even in the common language and even to some songs in Arabic and sometimes in Persian.
Example of point 5: by letting someone understand the solution to a problem and in this way he gets the knowledge about some ayat.
I myself had this idea since I was in the Mediterranean School: about the 8th-10th year of school:
Then one of my colleagues once said to me about the aya 36: 39 which means:
(And moon –– We have decreed its phases i, till it returns [as a crescent at the end of the month] like the [dry] old j 'curved stalk of date-clusters' [of last year.])
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i According to its circling around the earth; so that every night it takes a place in the space and it decreases to the eye sight.
quran-ayat.com/pret/36.htm#a36_39
So my colleague said: it is like the curved stalk and the craters of Moon are like the remnants of the date caps in the curved stalk;
and when I told the interpreter about this, he said: it is reasonable. I said: Aren't you the Mahdi? How could he understand it and you not?
He said: "Not necessarily; it may be God lets someone understand it, and from him, we know the meaning.
Another time he said to me: "I am not overproud to listen to the truth uttered by a child even."
Therefore, in general outline and in details, he could grasp knowledge about the Quran that scholars could not reach, eventhough he did not graduate from any school, because in the first place he was inspired.
But many times he corrects and edits so that he wrote many versions with few changes in fact. I said to him: "How could you be the Mahdi and you make some mistakes and then correct them!?"
He said: "it is a temptation for people to see who believes and be constant in his belief and who apostatizes and disbelieves!"
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