Allahu a'alam (God Knows Best): Difference between revisions

It's a phrase similar to [[Allahu Akbar]], but this time the root is not k-b-r (big), but 'a-l-m (knowing).

He knows difference between the two genders:

{{Quote|{{Quran|3|36}}|So when she brought forth, she said: My Lord! Surely I have brought it forth a female-- and '''Allah knew best''' what she brought forth-- and the male is not like the female, and I have named it Marium, and I commend her and her offspring into Thy protection from the accursed Shaitan.}}

Allah in the Qur'an doesn't describe any scientific facts, which were not known to the Arabs in the 7th century. It seems that his knowledge is limited by the knowledge of Muhammad.

He knows that Ibrahim, Ismail and Jacob were not Jews nor Christians:

{{Quote|{{Quran|2|140}}|Nay! do you say that Ibrahim and Ismail and Yaqoub and the tribes were Jews or Christians? Say: Are you better knowing or Allah? And who is more unjust than he who conceals a testimony that he has from Allah? And Allah is not at all heedless of what you do.}}

So the message seems to be: Stop thinking and blindly believe in Islam.

Jesus says he doesn't know what Allah knows:

{{Quote|{{Quran|5|116}}|And when Allah will say: O Isa son of Marium! did you say to men, Take me and my mother for two gods besides Allah he will say: Glory be to Thee, it did not befit me that I should say what I had no right to (say); if I had said it, Thou wouldst indeed have known it; Thou knowest what is in my mind, and I do not know what is in Thy mind, surely Thou art the great Knower of the unseen things.}}

{{Quote|{{Quran|12|77}}|They said: If he steal, a brother of his did indeed steal before; but Yusuf kept it secret in his heart and did not disclose it to them. He said: You are in an evil condition and Allah knows best what you state.}}

In some verses, "Allah knows best" seems to be an excuse used by Muhammad against the critics of his religion.

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Killed children are ok:

{{Quote|{{Al Nasai||3|21|1951}}|It was narrated that Abu Hurairah said:

{{Quote|{{Al Tirmidhi||5|44|3254}}|...For indeed, it is part of a man's knowledge, that when he is asked about something he does not know, he says: "Allah knows best." ...}}

In the early tafsirs on the verse 68:1, we can read about a whale, called ن (Nun), which carries the Earth on its back <ref>Tanwir Al-Miqbas: "And from his narration on the authority of Ibn 'Abbas that he said regarding the interpretation of Allah's saying (Nun): '(Nun) He says: Allah swears by the Nun, which is the whale that carries the earths on its back while in Water, and beneath which is the Bull and under the Bull is the Rock and..."</ref>. However in the tafsir Al-Jalalayn, from the 15th century, the interpretation changed to "Allah knows best":

{{quote|Al-Jalalayn on 68:1|Nūn is one of the letters of the alphabet. God knows best what He means by it.}}