Fahreddîn er-Râzî’nin Enfâl Sûresi 67-68. Âyetlere Dair Yorumları Eleştirisi
Fahreddin al-Râzî’s Criticism to the Commentaries on 67-68th Verses of Sûrah al-Anfâl

Summary/Abstract: The Battle of Badr is the first battle of Muslim’s in which they fought under the leadership of Prophet Mohammad and they took prisoners and get plunder. The details about this battle take part in the all Surah al-Anfal. The events occuring in the pre-war, during war and after the war take over in the cited surah in detail. The main issue that concern to our study is taking prisoner and getting plunders. The mentioned status has been taken in the 67-68th verses of Sûrah. Many of the commentators say that Prophet Mohammad is the interlocutor of 67th verse because of taking prisoners. Likewise according to most commentators, 68th verse must interprete aiming that the plunders will be allowed and that that if this judgement had not been given, a torment for Muslims’ would be sent because of taking plunders. Fahraddin er-Râzî handled and criticized two cited comments and similar comments in his tafseer. According to him, The Prophet did not take any prisoners and did not command others to take prisoners. On account of this, he isn’t the interlocutor of the 67th verse. The interlocutors of the verse are some of the companions who took prisoners while the battle was going on. Likewise, the comment Muslims would get punished if it isn’t plunders would be allowed judgement open the criticism. Because an act cannot be punished before it is prohibited. There isn’t any divine or mind-based evidence about taking ransom from prisoner is forbidden by religion. The article aims to examine and analyze the other comments put into words and criticized by Fahreddin al-Râzî about the two mentioned verses.

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