پژوهشنامه معارف قرآنی
پیاپی 21 (تابستان 1394)

Resurrection and return of human is innate and natural that has been affecting human life and activities throughout the history. Divine religions have confirmed this belief. But howness of this return is placed under the category of bodily resurrection which has been explained in different ways in the teachings of the three religions. The resurrection in the divine religions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism, is physical. The physical resurrection is explained in the Holy Quran and Bible passages both similarly and differently in different cases. The emphasis on the resurrection of the body and the return of the body from the soil are among the characteristics of bodily resurrection in both Quran and Bible. In this regard, the extent and scope of the teachings of the Quran and the Bible have some differences. Among the differences of the bodily resurrection in the Quran and the Bible are speaking human organs and inanimate objects, animal’s resurrection, resemblance of divine body with earthly body, the fate of human body. There is also a great deal of common ground between the Quran and the Bible.

Transmission of God’s purposeful discourse is done through different sciences and methods. One of literary methods to understand God’s discourse is semantics. Therefore, as Quranic words played key roles in expansion of its meaning, the examination of this method deems necessary. This paper aims to investigate the meaning of the words of the Quran in Tafsir al-Mizan, and applies a descriptive-analytical research method with a Quranic approach to investigate the existing differences in Quran’s words and finally concludes that changes have been made in some Quranic words before and after the descent in a way that some Quranic words had almost the same meanings before the descent; however, they undergone some changes during the descent such similarity in meanings, expansion, integration, and so on. Also, some changes were made in some Quranic words after the descent. The study shows that Allameh Tabataba’i’s book was written based on the principles and rules of some other works such as Tafsir Majma al-Bian and Koshaf.

Adaptation is a form of application and manifestation of the verses of the Quran in Imams’ words. The present study aimed to examine different forms of adaptations and motivation for their application in the words of Imam Reza. As the Holy Quran for Muslims enjoys a high status among Muslims and is the source from which the Imams took their underlying themes, Imam Reza used the Quranic verses repeatedly in his Imamate hadith to discuss different dimensions of leadership and issues related to it. This article first explain the concept of adaptation and motives behind its usage. Then, it examines this literary element in Imam’s sermon. In this holy Hadith, different forms of adaptations have been used including full, partial, varied, reference and inference adoptions, and it was observed that the Imam utilized each of these forms of adaptations with different motivations and purposes. This paper attempts to examine these adaptations with an analytical approach.

Wahhabism has particular views on various topics apart from other religions and Islamic sects. One of the specific beliefs of this sect is differences in explaining issues related to leadership and the saints of God, which is based on the special foundations about the definition of heresy and its various manifestations which has been formed. Wahhabism with the rejection of cause and effect system has denied the grace of Imams as a medium and as a result consecration and resorting to Imams and wanting healing from them is heresy and visiting their graves is innovation. This article by showing the fundamental deviation of this sect in analyzing polytheism with emphasis on the views of Allameh Tabatabaei has criticized it and has reached to the conclusion that loose irrational ideas of Wahhabism has caused advocate scholars of this sect to present an incorrect definition of the manifestations of heresy and development in its scope. With reference to the opinions of Allameh Tabatabaei in Almizan can easily become aware of Wahhabism’s mistaken beliefs about instances and many other actions such as God’s blessing and invoking the prophets and saints and asking intercession from them and visit their graves and oath of God, deemed to be outside the scope of heresy.

Positive emotions are the main leaders of human beings which they owe their survival largely to the strength of these factors in their interactions. Forces such as joy, love, hope, forgiveness, optimism and empathy are examples of these emotions. The story of Joseph in the Quran became known as the best story” of the Quran because of the presence of such emotions as effective factors in the behavior of a perfect man. And also it has profound impact on human mind and thinking because of abundance of instructional issues in this Surah, and some solutions should be found to use such instructional issues. This is a descriptive – analytical study in which positive emotions of life and its effects on human health as well as ways to strengthen these sentiments focusing on the Surah Yusuf was discussed. The emotions are divided into three sections: personal feelings, family, and community, and each can play a role in human growth and development..

One of the main principles in interpretation of the Quran is language of the Quran. Each interpreter pays attention to it during the interpretation inevitably. One common perspective in the language of the Quran is its widespread use with a long history. Allama Tabatabai in his first commentary which entitled “al-Bayan Fi al-Movafeghate Bain al-Hadithe va al-Quran” took the language of the Quran into account. The writer of this article investigate to the widespread use of the language of the Quran and semantics of Quranic concepts such as guidance and deviation, Mention, and other conceptualizations from Allama Tabatabai’s perspective. In so doing, first, the issue of the widespread use of the Quranic language was investigated in the interpretation of al-Bayan; then, the Quranic conceptualizations which are closely related to the language of the Quran have been studied. Finally, Allama Tabatabai believed that although the Quran used many common Arabic expressions and words, it has applied them uniquely. Also, versus of the Quran have different levels of meanings.

"Pluralism" means acceptance of coexistence of many different races, religions, and political beliefs and its purpose in philosophy of religion is to accept the legitimacy of different religions. Advocates of religious pluralism in order referred to the verses of the Holy Quran to justify and legitimize their claims. This article has is arranged into three sections. The first section deals with the study of different conceptualization with brief look at the literature review. The second section, which is the main objective of this article, is concerned with the examination of and criticizing nine classifications of advocates of pluralism relying on the Quran’s verses. The general topics of those categories are as follows: Islamic verses, verses of Surah Al-Kaafiroon, the freedom to choose a religion, no compulsion in religion, God will belong to the plurality of faiths, verses of straight path, the multitude of witnesses to the Resurrection, and so forth. The third section of the study allocated to mentioning some quotations right from the holy Quran to criticize the claims of the advocates of pluralism.