In short, only Prophet Muhammad (alaihi-salam) understood the meaning of the Quran al-Karim and explained it in his hadiths. It is he who explained the Quran al-Karim. The correct book of explanations of the Quran al-Karim is his hadiths. By not sleeping or resting, by sacrificing all their free time, our religious scholars gathered these hadiths and wrote books of tafsir (explanations of the Quran al-Karim). The book of tafsir entitled Baydawi [1] is one of the most precious among them. To understand even these books of tafsir, it is necessary to learn the twenty main branches of knowledge well by working ceaselessly for thirty years. There are eighty subdivisions that are the branches of these twenty main branches of knowledge. One of the main branches is the science of tafsir. These branches of knowledge were conveyed by many scholars and multitude of books. Various Arabic words that are used today have different meanings in the science of fiqh than from the meanings which they have in the science of tafsir. Even the same word conveys various meanings, depending on its place in the Quran al-Karim and the particles it takes. The Quran alKarim’s translations by those who do not know these vast branches of knowledge or made according to today’s Arabic convey meanings far from the meanings in the Quran al-Karim. A person understands the hints, the signs from the symbols in the Quran al-Karim in proportion to the strength of their iman. Tafsir is not something done simply by writing or by expressing in words. Tafsir is a nur (radiance) that occurs to the hearts of great religious men. The books of Tafsir are the keys to this radiance. As jewels are revealed when one unlocks the safe with a key, in a similar way the radiance occurs to the heart by reading those tafsirs. Those who knew the eighty branches of knowledge well understood the Tafsirs and, in order to explain them to religiously ignorant people as we are, they wrote thousands of books suitable for people of various categories. Valuable Turkish Tafsirs such as Mawakib, Tibyan, Abulleys are among them
