INTERDISCIPLINARY QURANIC STUDIES
Year:2019 | Volume:10 | Issue:1 |Papers Count:6

Social anger is a known phenomenon in the world. It is in itself neither positive nor a negative phenomenon. How it is expressed and it effects determine whether it is good or bad. This paper, with a focus on the relation between people and government, tries to determine the boundaries of the negative or positive aspects of expression of social anger and introduce Quranic strategies acting on which can prevent social anger from turning into destructive acts of violence. This paper, written using the library research method, describes positive social anger as one that leads to reforming and improving the conduct of rulers and directing them to the path of accountability and responding to people’ s demands. It also describes negative social anger as one that, due to indifference of rulers, turns into violence and involves disintegration of social cohesion and spread of chaos in society. The paper concludes that the Quran’ s strategy for preventing social anger from turning into violence can be summarized in four stages and, naturally, if governments act on them, they could avoid facing the consequences (of negative social anger). The four stages are: 1-Allowing criticism and expression of anger; 2-Receiving and analyzing the criticisms meticulously; 3-Having dialogue and humbly accepting faults; 4-Making efforts for reform.

As technology advances, man constantly seeks to learn more about interactions among his internal organs and investigate his body’ s reactions in times of illness or interventions, such as electric responses of the heart and brain to external stimuli like visual or auditory ones. Hearing a sound and assessing vital signs is one type of intervention. In this research, the effects of the sound of Quran recitation on heart and brain signals in three stages – before, at the time of, and after listening to Quran recitation – have been studied. The heart and brain signals of 50 girl students aged 19 to 24 with roughly similar religious belief levels was registered at a certain time. The objective was to study the effects of listening to Quran recitation on various characteristics, differentiate various states from one another using chaotic processing methods and statistical tests, and examine the accuracy of the results via support vector machines classification. The results show that listening to the Quran has a profound effect on interactions between heart and brain data and causes an increase in data flow between heart and brain signals based on a study of correlation dimension and fractal dimension, and a rise in the interactions between these two vital organs of the body. From a Cybernetics point of view, a rise in interactions in a bio system indicates an increase in the system’ s self-organization and efficiency.

The style of parenthetical phrase is among frequently used discursive styles in the Holy Quran. In this research, with a review and detailed search in exegeses and literary books, the extensive use of parenthetical phrases in the Quran and their types have been reflected and then, after categorizing and differentiating single-purpose parenthetical phrases from multi-purpose ones, the overall purposes hidden in the verses have been identified, examined and documented. Next the four purposes of emphasis, prevention of crossing mind, expression and refuting the remarks of Kuffar (disbeleivers) have been considered to be the most used ones. The goal of this research is to answer the question why the style of parenthetical phrase is used in the Quran and resolve the ambiguity regarding a lack of proportion and relation between verses containing parenthetical phrase and other verses. This research is an analytical-descriptive one in which some 20 cases of purposes of parenthetical phrases are identified and by examining them, it is proved that the verbiage resulting from the style of parenthetical phrase in the Holy Quran is completely purposeful, fitting and appropriate, and in terms of quantity and quality, it is far beyond the styles used in Arabic poetry and prose texts. It is also one of the major factors of the Holy Quran’ s literary, rhetoric and content miracles.

As the Holy Quran is an infinite source of ethical, human and educational thoughts and teachings, many Persian language poets and writers have benefited from this treasury. This mingling of the Persian written heritage with Islamic teachings has made it difficult to understand the heritage without being familiar with the Quran and Hadiths. Nasser ibn Khosrow Qobadiani is among the poets who have put their poetry at the service of promoting their religious and sectarian beliefs. In order to gain this objective and fulfilling the religious mission of his poetry, he has embellished his poems with the glowing verses. Given the religious background of Nasser Khosrow, his poems involve ethical guidelines and many pieces of advice. Having good mastery over Quranic concepts, he has adorned his poems with the holy verses, most skillfully and with the best method benefiting from full verses or part of them and sometimes using their concepts and meaning. This has certainly enhanced the effect of his messages. This paper uses examines the Divan of Nasser Khosrow and, using statistical tables, analyzes different types of reflection of the Quran’ s verses in his poems. It will also be shown that Nasser Khosrow’ s main reasons for using verses of the Quran include his mental and language association with the Holy Book and his efforts to explain his objectives and thought using the influence and status of the Quran among Muslims. This way, he directs the reader’ s attention to the need to accept his ideas because they actually originate from the Quran and are somehow a poetic expression of the concepts.

Knowledge of the Quran is of great importance in that it is very influential in the field of producing Quran-based human science, because how we look at the Quran determines the extent and type of our expectation from the Holy Book. Knowledge of the Quran can be investigated based on the Quran’ s triple doer, internal and ultimate goal systems. The relation between “ the Holy Quran” and “ human science” based on the Quran’ s internal system can be demonstrated as a set of foundations governing the “ content” of the Quran and a set of foundations governing the “ form” , including the “ language” and “ style” of the Quran. The content of the Quran fits its ultimate goal and for presenting this content has used a language that can achieve such a goal. Also, the structure and style has been designed in such a way that is capable of realizing such a thing. Hence, the relation between this language and structure vis-à-vis the language and structures of humanities should be determined. In this research, conducted by employing the descriptive-analytical method and based on the views of Ayatollah Javadi Amoli, it will be explained that the Holy Quran not only has acted differently in its style of expression and on the whole refused to take the common methods in human books, but also has fundamental differences with human books in terms of structure and style of arranging and organizing. Issues related to context and how allegories are used… are among the examples of this special structure and style of the Holy Quran.

One of complicated issues in the field of research is knowing and having access to sources researchers need from among a huge number of scientific texts. Today, indexes are among the main facilitation tools for researchers, organizations, universities, etc. The objective of indexing is to boost users’ access to sources related to the research subject. Journals try to provide readers with their research data based on accepted and categorized criteria. Accordingly, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Quranic Studies, which has published researchers’ papers for more than ten years, has published an index of its published papers. The index has been compiled in three sections of subjects, keywords, and authors’ names, concurrent with the publication of the journal’ s 20th issue.