عَرَضَ

presented, showed, placed before their eyes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

البَيَانَ

Root       ب  ى  ن

Separating, severing, disuniting, or cut-ting off; distancing two things from each other; this makes both apparent, manifest, evident, clear, plain or perspicuous;

The basic concept infolded in the Root is to create a distance between two things to make both of them separate and distinguished and distinct from each other.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 :Perception and meanings; Ear has its own memory.

 

            A person/personality is one who is , one who listens and has vision. , , "And indeed Allah is eternally the One Who is a Listener with Vision" {Refer 04:58, 134). A man is also a person who has the freedom of will/ decision/action. And this freedom would be of any meanings only if the man could acquire knowledge:

"We have created the man from a Sperm mingled with others, We have to test him, for that We have made him capable of listening with vision" {Refer 76:02}

                 Can we acquire knowledge merely by seeing something with our eyes?

"And He taught Adam the names of all things; thereafter He placed those things before the angels;

 and said: "Tell Me the names of these if you are truthful {about your saying about Adam}"

They said, "Glory is for You; We don't have the knowledge; we know only what you taught us" {Refer 02:31-32}

The angles had given their opinion/observation with regard to human's future conduct when they were told that Adam is being given freedom on earth, . It was  merely an opinion/presumption not based on complete knowledge. After making the Adam know the names of all things the same were presented before the Angles and were asked to name them to prove that whatever that had opined was based on comprehensive knowledge. Truthful is only he who makes a statement based on complete knowledge; a statement based on incomplete information/data does not rise to the level of truth; it is merely an opinion not worthy to be treated as truth at the given point of time. But at the same time it is not a lie since it is based on some data/information and is not merely an imaginative assertion. The opinion would prove either to be correct or wrong only at a point in time later than it was expressed when further data/information/conduct becomes visible. That is why scientists do not lie, they opine whereas philosophers do lie when they base study on a presumption/imagination/myth. Scientists never waste the time of humanity; philosophers do.

               The things were lying right before their eyes yet thay said, "We do not have the knowledge". Knowledge begins not by seeing things but from the point when we know its name/code. Knowledge of anything is obtained first by knowing the name/code of the thing which enables its storage/preservation in the memory. If we do not know the name/code, the physical appearance of any thing in our focus of eye {vision} does not have any significance since it will not let that thing be captivated in the brain as memory. Name/code is THE PRIMARY thing to acquire knowledge. A code of a thing enables a man to perceive the thing in his vision {in metaphorical meanings of بصر}. In Quran the faculty of listening is mentioned first then the faculty of vision {seeing}. Things should never be left in a state where one could speculate negatively or get into some confusion. Things were made clear to the Angels and it was also elaborated what is the second step to consider something as knowledge.

 

He asked, "Adam, tell them, make them aware with the names of these things" {Refer 02:34}

Knowledge is something that could be narrated. Knowledge means to describe things and it shows the faculty of finding distinction amongst things and identify/segregate them by names. And only he can describe knowledge who had earlier perceived it. Knowledge is something which could be communicated to others; which could be explained in words:

"Have We not made for man two eyes?

{Refer 90:08-09}

And one tongue and two lips? {these are main articulators that produce recognizable words}"

"He created man. Gave him the know-how of expressing/explaining/stating knowledge/distinguishing things from each other" {Refer 55:3-4}

         But one thing should be remembered that anything said by someone is not necessarily knowledge since i.e. idle and baseless, absurd talk is also uttered by the mouth. The knowledge is the one which could be communicated/described/stated to others and the faculty of others for receiving the knowledge is listening which has been made possible with the provision of ears. Ears are for listening:

"And for them are the ears but they don't listen with them" {Refer 07:179}

Anything made of the shape of an ear is not ear since it cannot listen. Idols/statues have ears but:

"Or for them are those ears with which they could listen?" {Refer 07:179}

Listening could become meaningful only when the stated thing has been interpreted and stored in the memory. About the ears, Quran has also given this information:

"So that We may make it a matter/message to be described, and it may be remembered by,                an ear acting as receptacle for retaining"{Refer:69:12}

The wordand is made from the Root "و  ع  ى". The basic perception infolded is to "keep or retain".  "وعاء" is a receptacle for retaining things.  is feminine, singular and is also feminine, singular; active participial noun{اسم فاعل}. An ear acts as receptacle for retaining, it has its own memory, retaining place. Quran had disclosed, 1400 years ago, that human ear acts as a respectable to retain the sound/statement. This fact became known in 1960.