QURANIC & HADITH STUDIES
Year:2015 | Volume:8 | Issue:1 (15) |Papers Count:7

With regard to the importance and central function of the Name “Rabb” in the semantic system of the Holy Qur’an, this study reviews the viewpoints of Muslim scholars - including lexicographers, Qur’an commentators and interpreters of the Names of Allāh - on the word “Rabb” and its meaning and derivation from a historical-critical perspective to gain a clear picture of the methods used by Muslim scholars in the meaning of the Qur’anic lexicon and its results, and also to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the methods so that the updated methods can be used to eliminate the existing flaws. From the statements and evidences cited by the earlier lexicographers, it is concluded that the word “Rabb” - derived from the doubled root r-b-b - has been meant malik (owner) since the pre-Islamic era.However, the basic verb form of the root r-b-b (rabba yarubbu) or augmented verb forms has not been used in the sense of malaka yamliku (to own) and even sometimes tarbiah (to bring up) - from the third-weak root r-b-w - has been known as “Rabb” as a solid word, since neither the semantic relationship between the word “Rabb” as a noun and verbal usages of the root r-b-b nor the relationship between the roots r-b-b and r-b-w was clear.

"Meeting with Allah" is the utmost move of man, and the spirit of all the teachings and divine knowledge. But despite the saturation of this issue in theological debate, a disagreement is seen about the meaning of "Meeting with Allah" in Quran, there is a disagreement between Shiite commentators all who follow the same theological school, and their votes are following 3 titles: "meeting with Allah" being trope, the intuition or knowledge by presence in the Hereafter (with being quiet about intuition in this world), and the intuition or knowledge by presence in this world. Difference of opinions between great Shiite interpreters, is the best reason to review the verses and narrations to achieve Unit opinion; because this difference, makes Uncertainty the utmost move of man.So, with accepting the impossibility of physical vision of Allah, and Regardless of the theological debates, the present paper deals with different view of Imami Shiite commentators, which reflects in the interpretation of the verses of meeting with Allah, to clarify the true meaning of "meeting with Allah" in Quran.

The Holy Quran, as the last and the most perfect divine program in human communication realm, has not ignored capacity of non-verbal significations (i.e. body language and facial expressions). It has frequently portrayed different aspects of non-verbal human communications resulting in completion of its messages and fixing them in the mind. The Holy Quran has also heeded facial expressions and their significations as one sort of non-verbal signification.This research, by moving from terminology of facial-expression communications toward the Holy Quran, grants a new understanding of Quran verses and also provides a new conception of arranging related verses to reach a suitable framework for facial-expression communications. In other words, this research, by virtue of some Quran verses, tries to scrutinize them, with an interdisciplinary approach, from the aspect of the functions of non-verbal, facial-expression communications.

The riot of the Sofyany is one of the signs of the Mahdi's appearance, that we can observe its narratives in Shi’ite and Sunni's traditionally sources. Howbeit, there are numerous contradiction in the narratives, such as contradiction in his name, his pedigree and his personality, the time and the place of his riot, his acts, etc.also, some of this narratives as well as the names of persons, the names of tribes and the names of places mentioned at them can be versatile with the events was happened in primary centuries of hegira.We shouldn't neglect that a lot of this narratives was not quoted by Ma' sooms, as well as a lot of narrator of the aren’t authentic. Moreover, Ma'soom's words where quoted by Imams who were living before the Imam Kathim.It is necessary checking this narrations and theories as to them, Because of importance of cognition about the Mahdi and necessity of purgation this narrations. Also, some corrects among them declare the riot of the Sofyany is inevitable before the Mahdi's appearance. This article will seek to achieve this goal.

Tadabbur (deliberation) is one of the key concepts in the holy Quran presented as the objective of its revelation according to the Quran 38, 29. Although this concept is only used in four verses of the holy Quran, it has been subject to various interpretations in the scholarly atmosphere of the contemporary age due to its high position and the processing's it has undergone in the late three decades. What adds to the ambiguity of this term in modern researches is failure to analyses its root "dbr".Aiming to select useful data towards reaching the structural process of tadabbur, the above meanings have been refined and useful information used towards revealing the relation between various meanings. Finally the structural process of tadabbur is explained based on the above analysis and on its identical structure or typology in English. Its English typology "understand" suggests that the term tadabbur is also made of two parts: "dbr" as the root of the verb and the Arabic form "tafa׳׳ul" In the sense of "stand".

Among the modern methods propounded in linguistics in which they scientifically study the concept and is called semantics. In semantics, the meanings of words are explained via discovering the semantic field of words based on their relations in the semantic networks. In the context of the verses of Holy Quran, by help of this method, they research for the meanings of Quran words. The concept of “thanks” is among the axial notions in semantic network of accepted Quran notions. During discovering the semantic network of the words related to thanks, we confront derivations of “atheism” as the most remarkable notion against “thanks”.Since, the notion of atheism means neglecting the gifts and also it is meant as believing atheism, the necessity of investigating the meanings of intermediate words between these two concepts is apparent. In order to explain the semantic field of this network, there is a need for distinguishing the meanings of intermediate words between thanks and atheism with this criterion that whether they are applied relevant to the meaning of neglecting the gifts or companion to believing atheism. For this, in the current study, we care taking efforts to discover mutual concepts of thanks which are in relation to the notion of atheism and to study their semantic essence dominant on that.