Interpretation from the perspective of Ayatollah Marefat and Ibn Shahr Ashoub Mazandarani

Interpretation is one of the mysterious vocabularies in the Holy Quran which also plays an important role in understanding the teachings of the Qur’an. An overview of the history of interpretation by the Qur’anic scholars indicates that this specific term has undergone many vicissitudes in the spectrum of its definition, and the verses of the Qur’an and numerous narratives have influenced its secrecy. The present article which is structured though descriptive analytic method seeks to examine the views of Ayatollah Ma’rfat and Ibn Shahr Ashshub Mazandarani on this issue and to do analysis on that. Reviewing the definition of interpretation and evaluating its exegesis function from the perspective of these two Quranic scholars, demonstrates considerable commons and differences between them. Studies show that Ibn Shahrashub, unlike Ayatollah Marefat who considers lexical and terminological definitions for ‘interpretation’, has not explicitly defined this technical term, and as the first exegetes, considers the interpretation the same as exegesis, and by referring to reliable criteria, he has been devoted to explain the difficult to understand verses of the Qur’an. Ayatollah Marefat has also made great efforts in recognizing the exegesis and presenting its exact meaning from the Shia point of view, in which this semantics can be based on the verses, narrations and readings of past exegetes, a new page of the vicissitude scene in definition of this mysterious term is opened.