Journal of Researches of Quran and Hadith Sciences
Year:2007 | Volume:4 | Issue:1 (7)|Papers Count:8

One of the incredible methods used in Nahj al-Balāga for reviving the sense and vitaliging the concept is the method of illustration. Though this method many of the religious facts and monotheistic teachings are demonstrated in practical and perceptible forms and spiritual subjects and different states of mind and spirit are given life. Imam Ali's words are so abundant of literal images metaphors and allegories that in many cases it is more like a beautiful picture rather than silent and dead words. In -this article we are to define the concept of illustration and its role in giving life to different concepts as well as studying this subject in Nahj-al-Balāga. In addition we have categorized different kinds of illustration in Nahj-al-Balāga accompanied by examples from Imam's words.

This article tries to analyze the concept of faith in almizan. For this, it finds the concepts which Tabatabai uses to describe "faith" throughout the Qur'iin, like intellectual peacefulness, practical commitment, affirmation/assent, obedience, assurance, faithfulness, trust, good deed, etc. Then, it tries to show both the meaning of those concepts in Tabatabai's view and the situation of them in the existence of a believer. It also offers Tabatabai's definition of certainty and knowledge that are very important in description of faith. Finally, it shows whether or not his conceptual network of faith has consistency. There is a gap between knowledge and action. Some early Muslim theologians have given some different solutions to create a bridge between them. This article tried to find and the bridge and explains it in Tabatabai's view.

The music of Qur'an in one of the features of its text inimitability that can be studied from different aspects. In this article we have examined the impact of the music of a word on its meaning. The music of the word is the lune of the word due to its main and minor characteristics, its vowels, sustenance of the phonemes, Kind of phonemes points of articulation (makharidj) additional words, phonetic changes (Ibdal) contract (idgham) and ellipsin that has different implications and is a display of one's excitements. This has an obvious effect on the meaning expressed as follows: exaggeration in meaning, abundance, growth, continuity been extraordinary or reminiscent of outside sounds and events, causing fear and anxiety expressing strangeness, recurrence and sequentality, obviousness, progressivity noisiness, time-consuming and relaxation of a movement, fastness of response and penalty, averting its heaviness and also mixture and proving the impact of phonemes on the meaning expressed, it will also be proved that synonymy does not exist at all.

Fi Zelal al-Qur'ān the most significant work of seyyed Qutb demonstrates the genious and inellectual power of its celebrated outhor. In this exegesis a political social edifiying epical trend can be traced and its compiler is considered of the modem exegetes. The knowledge of its author about the occasion of revelation enables him to reach the deep meaning and real message of the verses and adjust his own view of the verse with the conditions and causes of its revelation. Interpreting Qur'ān with full consideration of its formal and textual qualifications is a criterion for evaluating the cases narrated as the occasion of revelation.In this article we have examined wether seyyed Qutb has considered the occasions of revelalion and if so what was his opinion about those concerning Ahl-al-Bayt. The result was as follows: He takes in to account the occasions of revelation in his commentary but encountered with those about Ahl-al-Bayt he is either silent or presents the case~ differing from them.

The exegesis attributed to QumĪ is one of Imami commentaries compiled in 4 th century A. H. and classified as traditional. Nevertheless considering the commentary proper, the exegete in numerous cases has relied on his own independent decision in order to comperhend the meaning of the verses/ i. e/ he has interpreted the verses depending on non-traditional sources. In this article, at first we study QumĪ's exegesis and its status and next we examine different stimuli for his decision making and finally in the last part of the article we consider various factors influentied on the editor's judgements. This research shows that in all commentaries, even those known as traditional, we can notice the exegete's independent decision making.

Furat Kufi's exegesis is one of the third century traditional exegesis of the early Imamis. part of the traditions in this book is devoted to denotating verses to Ahl-al-Bayt Giving the referent and denotes (tatbiq and Jary) of verses considering outside examples is one of the Quranic subjects in the field of esoteric interpretation (táwĪl). In this article we have first examined the meaning of the word 'Ta wil" literally, in hadith and according to different scholars. Then we have studied some of the traditions with esoteric sense in this exegesis. Our focus in this study is on distiguishing between tradition explaining the sense of the verses and those giving the referent while many of the esoteric traditions are of the latter kind.

After Islam prevailed in non-Arab countris and the need for translating Qur'ān arised, translatabity of Qur'ān and the correctness of such an act became a debate for exegetes and theologians. Most scholars considering the necessity and possibility of it, have made a serious and sincere effort to achieve a straightforward and fluent translation. while others especially some of the contemporaries, believe in untraslatability of Qur'ān supposing that literal translation of Qur'ān is not possible while its free translation is affected by the translator's understanding. They also insisted on the for bidence of translation due to some uncorrect ones. Rashid Reza and Ghazi Inaya are among those.In this article we have studied this view and criticized it, believing that literal translation of Qur'ān difficult or in some cases impossible, its free translation is both possible and essential for conveying the meaning of the verses atmost and also Allah's intention. In addition, there is no doubt that the translated Qur'ān is not subject to the same legal rules of the original text and the translator’s errors and blunders cannot be a good reason for forbidding it. It is also essential to provide the original text of Qur'ān besides its translation, while the translatorrs should try to provide a correct methodological and false less translation especially concerning theological verses Giving extra explanations in footnotes is also sometimes crucial.