Question:
Assalamu’alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Ya Sayyidy, Ya Habinana, Ya Mawlana.
I want to get some explanation from you. I got an explanation from someone that tafsir QS.80:1 (“The Prophet frowned and turned away”) is not Muhammad SAW, it is false because Rasulullah could not do like that and it is not The Prophet’s character such as explanation in QS.68.4 (“And indeed, you are of a great moral character”). So, the man in QS.80:1 above is Al-Walid bin Mughirah (QS.74:11, “Leave Me with the one I created alone”).
Jazakumullah khairan katsira
Answer:
`Alaykum as-Salam,
Yes, this is an explanation forwarded by Imam Fakhr al-Din al-Razi in his book `Ismat al-Anbiya’. However, in his Tafsir (Mafatih al-Ghayb) he cites the consensus of Ahl al-Sunnah that the verb “He frowned” does indeed refer to the Prophet (upon him blessings and peace) and this is confirmed by all the Sunni exegetes. In the first book he said that even if it were indeed the Prophet (s), his gesture never contradicts 68:4 and was only because he was so keen on making the Message reach those who were not yet accepting it among the Quraysh leaders as in 18:6 and 26:3, while the blind man was already a Muslim.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
