Understanding the Quran:

It is important for everyone to acquire in each discipline the foundations that will help them to understand, then to draw lessons, so that their science rests on solid foundations and pillars. The expression says: "He who does not have the basics cannot reach his goal". Among the most noble sciences, or rather the most noble, there is the science of exegesis (Ilm ut-Tafsir) which is the clarification of the meaning of the Word of Allah. The people of science laid the foundations for it, just as they laid the foundations for the science of hadith and jurisprudence (fiqh)…