COMMENTARY STUDIES
Year:2012 | Volume:3 | Issue:11|Papers Count:6

One of the common doubts in commentating the verse: There is no compulsion in religion, has been considered as the problem of disagreement between primary holy war in Islam and the meaning of the verse. By the verse is meant real negation of every compulsion in Divine religion, every internal compulsion for making people to accept religion and every external compulsion in the realm of Divine religion. None of these cases disagree with Divine will and compulsion to the sovereignty of His religion. Commentators have presented different solutions for the problem among which the best one is the necessity of predicating the verses of unconditioned holy war to conditioned ones. None of the verses in the field, therefore, may be regarded as unconditioned, yet all are conditioned to such limits as encroachment, warfare, injustice, harassment etc.

The holy has referred to the conditions of the Hour in the verse 18 of chapter Mohammad. By the conditions of the Hour is meant the events that happen before resurrection or the appearance of Imam ahdi (a). Commentators of fariqain, relying on the sayings of the Prophet and Imams, have paid much attention to the subject. Though the expression of the conditions of the Hour has been used frequently in Islamic sources, there can be found many cases of ambiguty between the signs of resurrection and those of Imam's appearance. An attempt has been made in this paper to distinguish these signs with reliance on Quranic verses, traditions and analyzing the content with regard to the cases and Sunni and Shiite commentaries.

The first verse of Ma'arij is one of the verses dealing with Imam Ali's appointment to imamate on the day of ghadire khom. Commentators have spoken on the background of the verse differently. Some clearly and some other with a hint have known the background of the verse to be the event of Ghadir. Again some other have considered it dealing with one of the Prophet`s companions requesting punishment from God as a proving reason for the event. And finally, some have deliberately regarded the traditions in the field as false. Surveying the views of Sunnis, this paper has studied and criticized them. As is understood in the paper, the background of the verse consists in the event of ghadir and Imam Ali's imamate.

The verse 31 of Baqara, describing the place of human being in the world of creation and his relationship to God, has answered many questions in the field. Some ambiguities and challenges under the verse have changed it to a problematic verse. Given that by the viceroyship be meant substitution for all the pasts including jinns, nasnases and other human generations before tha appearance of Adam (a), it may not be regarded as a considerable virtue for Adam (a) and his descendants. As is generally understood by the contexts before and after the verse Divine viceroyship is considered as one of the very important subject of which angles have been made aware by God. This paper, studying fariqain's commentary views, has surveyed the most essential components and consequences of human viceroyship.

Resurrection is one of the fundamental beliefs in all revealed religions. The holy Quran has insisted on it to such an extent which there can be found about 1400 verses on it. The Divinely promosed resurrection is introduced with some tokens called in the Quran the conditions of the Hour of which is blowing the trumpet. Blowing the trumpet has been introduced in the Quran as a token for the end of passing world and beginning of everlasting world and is followed by huge and tremendous happenings. Commentators have given different views on blowing trumpet. This paper has studied the meaning of blowing trumpet reasonably and comparatively and, presenting different opinions and describing them, prepare an appropriate ground for understanding the verses deeply.

Qurnic commentary based on the order of descending is regarded as one of the modern methods in Quranic commentary. Some assessments, however, have been presented on the validity and authenticity and consequences of the method. The main part of the assessments has centered on possibility or impossibility of agreeable principles and presupposions for the method. The presupposions of the method have been considered by some to be: gradual state of Quran revelation and its agreeability with the method of descending commentary, determinate state of revelation based on the mushaf of Imam Ali (a), inferential state of current commentary, the harmony of subject-based commentary with descending order and the possibility of determining the order of revelation by reference to the traditions in the field. Some critical views can also be found in the field. Though some views on the method's consequences may not be accepted, main part of the critiques of principles and presuppositions are not acceptable. And without such principles and presuppositions one may not comment the holy Quran based on the order of revelation.