And in the authentic narration it is stated: “Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has detested for you idle gossip, excessive questioning, and the squandering of wealth.” The early generations employed the word karāha (dislike) with the very meaning that appears in the speech of Allah and His Messenger. The later scholars, however, agreed to reserve karāha for matters that are not strictly forbidden, though refraining from them is preferable to doing them. Some of them then imposed this later convention on the words of the classical Imams and thus erred—an even worse mistake is made by anyone who forces the terms karāha or “it should not” in the speech of Allah or His Messenger to bear this novel, technical meaning!

On this occasion we say:

It is obligatory upon people of knowledge to pay close attention to the modern meanings that have attached themselves to Arabic words which, among the early Arabs, carried other well-known, specific senses. Since the Quran was revealed in the language of the Arabs, its vocabulary and syntax must be understood within the limits of what the Arabs to whom it was revealed would have grasped; it is impermissible to interpret it according to these later technical connotations on which people have recently agreed.