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Whatever the agenda may be and although it is not sufficient to only say how great the Quraan Shareef is yet not believe in it. One has to believe in it. But we will say the Arabic saying:
الفضل بما شهدت الأعداء
“True virtue is when the enemies acknowledge it as well”
Credit goes to Economic Times for reporting this incident:
“Former US President Bill Clinton has delivered a pointed message against anti-Muslim rhetoric and America’s growing ‘us vs. them’ politics, revealing that his daughter, Chelsea Clinton, read the Quran from start to finish when she was just 15 years old. Clinton recalled that Chelsea later told him, ‘Dad, read this,’ before sharing a message about understanding people of different faiths.“
Bill Clinton was paraphrasing Surah Al-Hujurat, verse 13 (49:13):
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَىٰ وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا ۚ إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِندَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ
Translation:
“O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.”
What Clinton quoted:”Allah put the different people on the earth not that they might despise one another, but that they might come to know one another and learn from one another”is his own English paraphrase / explanation of لِتَعَارَفُوا — “that you may know one another” — he added the “not to despise” part to make the point against anti-Muslim rhetoric.
We keep in mind always: A politician without an agenda is not a politician.
