A Survey of Allameh Tabatabaei's EXegetic Viewpoint in Commentary of the Verse of Tebian

The verse of Tebian is one of the verses discussed by commentators. There are controversies among the determinants of the Quran verses. Along with accepting the common reciting of the verse of Tebian, referring to some reasons such as “God’s invitation to have reflection in the Quran”, “the possibility of referencing the ambiguous verses to the explicit ones”, “the Quran’s Verses with inner meanings” and “inner stages of guidance and understanding of the Quran”, for Allameh Tabatabaei the implication of the verse is for all people who are talented and profited by contemplation tools and in relation to all things it is for lexical implication. Accordingly, he believes that the necessity of assuming accuracy of the narrations which is indicative of existence of the knowledge about past, future and the forthcoming events to the resurrection day in the Quran is that we need to reflect on the word Tebian and consider its implication as both lexical and meta-lexical. The above mentioned two points from Allameh’s beliefs clearly show this reality that he has taken the middle ground in providing commentary of the verse of Tebian and has avoided minimal and maximal inferences of this verse. Along with analyzing Allameh’s viewpoint on commentary of this verse, the paper has dealt with criticizing and analyzing one of the maximal inferences of this verse which has some advocates among some commentators.