The Necessary Rules and the Methods of Understanding the Quran from Mulla Sadra's Viewpoint

We can study the issue of "Understanding the Quran" from various aspects, such as: the characteristics of those who are going to understand it, the conditions that may lay the ground for "Understanding" and the obstacles that may get in the way of it. Do all of those who really want to understand the Quran reach the same level of "Understanding"? If not, what are the factors that can be led to the promotion of "Understanding" and achievement of the exact inner meaning of the Quran? So, in the first part of this paper, we will discuss understanding's obstacles and in its second part, 16 conditions and ways of understanding the profundity of the Quran will be brought in. When one promotes in "Understanding the Quran" progressively, that person can gradually pass levels of sense and reason and reach revelation level and converse with God. In this occasion, the true "Understanding" takes place. Depending upon the depth of change, one can discover one of the Quran's mysteries. The reason that "Understanding the Quran" has different stages and degrees underlies in this fact that those who want to understand it are not the same.