Tough Job
Right or wrong interpretation is the root cause of all conflicts. Our perception, discern ability about subjects and the issues determine as to what kind of interpretation likely comes to the fore. Impacts of an interpretation does not confine to an individual but affects our whole surroundings. Hence it is often seen that an interpreter while interpreting either has positive or negative outlook over the subjects, farsightedness or narrowness in depicting the issue or have lack of perception which either becomes bone of contention or works constructively.
One side, emergence of specific school of thought and division in society on the basis of cast and creed is the result of interpretation on the other side bridge of friendship and bonding is also result of the same interpretation. Great amount of discern ability, perspicacity and perception is required for the right interpretation of arts, quote, text, but it is often seen that sometimes people while interpreting wear spectacle of hatred and bgotry maknging a plat form for themselves and bamboozle innocent and ignorant on the name of religion. Defining a text is very difficult thing specially of religious text because plenty of meaning are concealed inside them hence it becomes responsibility of interpreter to infer it in such a way which brings positivity in surrounding. James P.Carse said‘ The Bible....provides no guide to reading the bible. In fact it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales and poetic imagery that to quote it all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Very quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.’
Therefore it becomes responsibility of learned and religious scholar to interpret complexity of text in such way that brings clarity in respect of why religious quotation is relevant in stead of trying to surpass others by pointing out faults in others. Prophet Mohammad once said ‘For you your religion, for me mine’ Purpose of arrival of any religion is to make people a human being by showing right path, by introducing a system to spend their lives in harmony but if we look at past and present we find that this is the very religions which causes of immense violence and destruction of people and humanity.
With the passage of time this very complexity, obscurity have been being made easy by Sufi Saints through their liberal preaching within the purview of religious text.
Similarly in our day today life drawing meaning and reason from the event and incident is normal phenomena that undoubtedly causes emergence of conflicts and solution in surrounding. Hence before making an opinion or interpretation of the subject, Perception , analysis of issues, a sense of repercussion and complete information is very much required. Even though poetry of poets, write up of writers and arts of artist are a sort of reflection of truth of society and the system we live in but to interpret those obscure text, quote and contradictions we need great gumption, perspicacity and perception perhaps for this very things a poet said :-
Dhoop mein niklo,Ghataon mein naha ker dekho
Zindagi kiya hai, kitabon ko hata ker dekho
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