نشریه قرآن پژوهی حسنا
پیاپی 29-30 (تابستان و پاییز 1395)

One of the components of the Holy Quran is surah which has been recognized as an integrated unit based on the Almighty Allah’s speech. For this is necessary to discover and to explain the integrity and internal harmony of the verses. A careful study in a surah will reflect several aspects of harmony and style in the verses. The aspects of harmony based on comprehensive classification are literary, subjective, conceptual and purposeful harmony. Each of theses aspects has various types and abundant samples in a surah as follow: description, conjunction, substitution, emphasis on the last problem, to explain with more details about something rose as a whole, to give some example as an evident, to argue aforementioned problem, to specify the general sentence, to answer a doubt or a question rose in the previous verse, the harmony among verses descended at the same time, to prohibit believers of maintenance of succession with disbelievers, to confirm Allah’s Unity and belief in the Day of Judgment, to express an abstract of prophet’s fighting with rebels, to invite to the right and good actions by means of warning and glad tiding, to prohibit of avoiding of the Friday’s Prayer and to recommend to remove obstacles related to do it.

Among the Quranic verses there are some verses in which the Almighty Allah has certainly remembered a specific event or has mentioned to a phrase by a certain idiom, this is called specification of remembrance of Allah by commentators. This descriptive-analytic research is going to answer these questions: what is the intention of specification of remembrance of Allah? And what are the purposes of Allah for doing this? Considering different commentaries written by the great commentators, the advantages of specification of remembrance of Allah were discussed. The findings of this research indicated that anywhere Allah has remembered a specific event, not only He has a specific purpose, but also there has been a specific reason that common sense will understand it with some focus. Specific reasons are to magnify, to remove hallucination related to that matter, distinction and assignation, the occasion of style, the occasion of the word with its meaning, the occasion of disbelievers’ history, etc. Also, this is a drop of the wide sea of rhetoric and innovations of the Holy Quran.

Knowledge of aspects is one of the knowledge of Quranic sciences by which words in different context have different meaning. These three words; ‘guide’, ‘prayer’, and ‘mercy’ are with multi-aspects that in different verses have different meaning. Lack of paying attention to this point will lead to a wrong perception of the Holy Quran. Descriptive-analytic method with library tool has been used in this research in which this question will be raised: whether the proper equivalence of the Quranic words has been adopted in English and Persian translations of the Holy Quran? Obviously that in investigating Quran’s translations on the meaning of aforementioned words, translators have translated these words without paying attention to the knowledge of aspects and the style of the verses in the most cases. Translations had positive and desirable functions in finding the right equivalence of the interested word were as follows; Khajavi, Amoli, Elahi ghomshaei, Broojerdi, Khosravi, Taheri, and Garmaroodi. There has not been observed a positive and desirable function in finding the right equivalence of the words with multi-aspects among English translations of the Holy Quran. This views a great challenge among this type of translations.

This world has been created by the Almighty Allah based on a complete order and harmony. Also, human being must be enjoyed the harmony and unity among other creatures, and then, set out his/her life based on it in order to reach the mundane and otherworldly bliss. The unity is one of principles and values have been focused by the prophet (AS) and Infallibles (SA) who has consistently been the herald of unity. In their viewpoint, dignity and authority of all Muslim is under their unity and correlation against their enemies. By their speech and practical life story, the prophet (AS) and Infallibles (SA) have asked the Islamic community to avoid division and to have unity. The unity is one of the most important historical, social, and political necessities for Muslim. Also, it is the indicator of dynamism of Islamic identification through which Muslims have followed it from the early age of Islam till now based on high-level doctrine and theistic religiosity and in fighting Islam enemies have presented a theory and plan with different aspects based on its time requirements. We are seeking to explain the unity based on the prophet (AS) life story in this paper in order to find some strategies in accordance with Quranic doctrine and the prophet’s (AS) order. Also, documentary and library method has been used in the present research.

Quranic text is replete with lingual and semantic complexities, while it is in the field of eloquence and rhetoric time-based and place-based. In the modern age, the methods of literary, linguistic, and semantic criticism have been provided new and different tools with new application to scholars and commentators in terms of discovering the pearls of the boundless sea of the Holy Quran. Context theory is one of the approaches which have been focused by many linguists, particularly researches in the field of semantic. This theory is more applicable in the scope of equivocation than other scopes. The question has consistently been raised by commentators and scholars, is that to what extent it is possible to get the precise meaning of the equivocation words, particularly the Quranic words? This paper has been done by a descriptive-analytic methodology. The purpose of this paper is to study ‘patience’ and its derivations in the Quranic context and Nahj-al-balaghah in order to illustrate the aspects of its meaning with respect to the context. The findings of the present research indicates that the ‘patience’ include the meaning such as endurance, forgiveness, peace, wisdom, sleep, dream, and also, human’s intellectual maturity in his/her childhood based on the Key words:

The status of ‘consent’ will be discussed in this paper by a documentary – library methodology during 3 steps: description, analysis, and explain in this paper. In addition to reviewing the lexical and idiomatic meaning of ‘consent’, the viewpoint of commentators and mystic and moral scholars has been analyzed in the field of types, hierarchies, and levels of consent, and then, the ways of accessing to Allah’s pleasure in the Holy Quran have been mentioned by virtue of verses and traditions. Finally the effects and consequences of ‘consent’ have been outlined. Also, the author has discussed the status of ‘consent’ based on Quranic verses, Ahlul-Bayt’s (AS) traditions, and Islamic texts in this paper.

Ahlul-Bayt’s (AS) commentary traditions in the surah Loghman have been discussed by this paper in terms of the style and typology. Initially the most prominent definition of commentary types, and then, traditions related to each type has been expressed. The research method was library-analytic one. Also, its field of study was Quran and narrative commentaries. According to the research evaluation, the most frequency of traditions related to the surah Loghman has been conceptual explanation, i.e. to explain the intention of the verse, then moral explanation, finally determining the evidence of (Jari & Tatbigh) respectively.

There are some separated letters at the beginning of some Quranic surahs that they don’t make a certain word and apparently they have no meaning, these letters are so-called Abbreviated Letters. For this commentators and Islamic scholars have suggested some meaning for these letters which has been identified as illogical meaning. Since some orientalists have tried to show the Quranic resource as a non divine revelation and a man-made work, they have presented some suggestions which cause doubt about divine revelation of the Holy Quran. The purpose of this paper is to study the suggestions by a library method and referring to a valid commentary and Quranic sciences texts. It shows a brief description of western Quranic scholars’ viewpoint such as Blusher, Nouldeke, Bohol, watt, Booth, Morris, etc. As a whole, it can be said some believe that Abbreviated Letters are to some extent related to Abjad Letters. Also, some refer to these letters as coded points to the content of surah. Some view them as a reference to the Companions. Of course some believe that these letters are as a part of Allegorical verses whose interpretation is just related to Almighty Allah and anyone who are firm in the science, and also, they believe that it can’t be presented certain and clear meaning of these letters. They view them mysterious. It is necessary to say that each of aforementioned suggestions are to somehow subjective interpretation, individual reasoning, guess, suspicion, and with invalid document.