the devil's advocate says:
translation:
if a scholar, elder, grandson of the prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam - not in a translation but discussing indications - if he says something, he becomes a "muharrif e qur'an"...
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tarjamah ho ya ishaarat - qur'an ki taraf koyi baat nisbat karay to ye taqaza hai ke aql aur naql se muwafiqat ho - chaman bechara in usulon ko nahin jaanta - magar ek usul yeh bhi hai kalam e arab mein in muhawaron ka istiymal paya jaaey.
whether it is a translation or an implication - if one attributes something to be 'from the qur'an', it is necessary that it should be compatible with reason (meaning: wild interpretations are unacceptable) and with transmitted evidence (i.e. from hadith or tafsir of sahabah-tabiyin). further interpretations should be consistent with usage of the ancient arabs - it is therefore you will find poetic lines of poetry from jahiliyah (pagan times) in tafasir. poor chaman - he has no clue of
ulum al-qur'an and hence he barks wildly.
it becomes tahrif when a meaning is concocted without any basis - neither in qur'an-hadith or can be derived from similar usage - or the opinion of a sahabi or tabiyi - or it corroborates a commonly observed phenomenon.
the million dollar question is: which sunni tafsir supports riaz shah's tahrif? that
makanan-aliyya means hazrat idris alayhis salam is buried in the same grave as hazrat ali? which dictionary
what stupid "ishaarat" is it? for example, if one says "riaz is lying on his bed" - can it be linguistically feasible to mean, "riaz died and became dust and his grave is in rabwa".
"riaz apnay bistar par pada hua hai" - can it be linguistically feasible to mean, "riaz matti mein milgaya aur uski qabr rabwah mein hai"?
when alahazrat said:
insaniyat ki jaan hazrat muhammad sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam - for "
insan", it is derived thus:
insan -> could refer to a
special insan -> i.e. hazrat aadam alayhis salam or muhammad sallALlahu alayhi wa sallam.
now, you could just name the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam - but to correlate with the word "insan" - alahazrat replaced with the essence of the word: because the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam is indeed the soul of mankind.
or chaman zaman should say that he does not believe in it. if he accepts it, then where is the tahrif? if he doesn't accept it - he should be a man enough to boldly state his belief. he should not be like لا إلى هولاء ولا إلى هولاء
the moron - i mean chaman zaman - should prove that "insan" does not refer to RasulAllah sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam absolutely if he claims it is tahrif.
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zad al masir of ibn jawzi
makki ibn abi talib
wahidi in al-wajiz
nasafi in madarik
tafsir sam'ani
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we will go in more detail in sha'Allah concerning other false allegations of chaman.