When your mind is obsessed with something, you can't see things from the right perspective. When you think with an obsessed mind, things won't be clear to you. Free yourself of obsession. Have an objective mind. Then you will understand things better. Otherwise, your obsessions will create obstacles in your thinking. For example, consider Syed Qutb's commentary. Qutb was one of the foremost leaders in Egypt. His commentary In the Shade of the Quran is in Arabic. He believed in the political interpretation of Islam. While reading the Quran he arrived at the passages that speak about Moses. When Moses called people to God, the Pharaoh invited his councilmen and said: Moses wants to drive you out of your land (26.35).

Moses wants to put an end to our rule and seeks to establish his own rule. Based on this, Qutb alleged that Moses had a political mission. He wrote that Moses' mission was political, and he wanted to establish divine rule in Egypt. But this is entirely baseless. Moses' mission would be derived from Moses' speech and not from Pharaoh's statements. Moses' mission can be rightly understood from what he himself says about it. This is indeed a unique phenomenon. Moses received God's help and Pharaoh's army drowned in the sea. This left the way open for Moses to return to Egypt. But what did Moses do? He actually left Egypt and went to the Sinai desert. So why was he unaware? If he wanted to establish God's rule, he should have known that he had the opportunity to do so.

Qutb's reasoning is very absurd. But his mind's obsession interpreted Moses' mission in the wrong way. He tried to give his own interpretation to Moses' story, but that really proved nothing. Similarly, Syed Abul Ala Mawdudi is another great advocate of the political interpretation. While reading the Quran he arrived at the verse: كُونُوا قَوَّامِينَ بِالْقِسْطِ (4.135)

Qist means justice. From this, he derived the message: Enforce justice. Enforce the system of justice. But the word used in the Quran is not in the transitive sense, it is in the intransitive sense. That is, not the one who enforces justice on others, but the one who upholds justice himself. Be the one who upholds justice. This is about individual character. Every person needs to be just in his or her behaviour. Mawdudi interpreted the verse as: Enforce justice on others. Break existing political rule and grab political power in your hands. Without this, justice cannot be enforced on people. This is an example of obsession. When you are obsessed, you will not understand matters properly. Your mind will create wrong meanings. This is how the entire corpus of the Quran and Hadith have been misinterpreted.