According to many verses and narratives, Shi'ite Imams are the only ones after God and the Prophet who have complete knowledge of the teachings of Quran, its meaning and the purposes of its verses. Considering human’s needs, the Imams have interpreted and explained the verses of Quran. Regarding the significance and special place of typology of narrations in the exegesis of the Quran on the one...

“The state of being plain” is one of the features of the Holy Quran, taken as indicative of Quran’s expressiveness and clearness regarding its intentions. However, one of the aspects of Quranic miracles is its expressive miracle based on which verses have been revealed according to suitability and appropriateness of situation in an explicit and succinct form. In order to have a desirable unders...

One of the common views in contemporary Quranic research is the dialog on the existence of allegory and symbolic language in the Quran and Quranic stories. Citing such arguments as the common literary style between the Quranic stories and human stories, the use of symbols with specific modes of expression in the Quran and the cases in which the Divine intent is expressed through questions and a...

Introduction: Test anxiety is common among university students. On the other hand, listening to the recitation of the Holy Quran may relieve symptoms of anxiety. Thus, this study was designed to examine the effects of the length of listening time to the recitation of the Holy Quran on test anxiety levels of students before starting the test. Materials and Methods: This study was a quasi-experim...

There are some traditions in Shii sources of hadith indicating that there are as many levels in Paradise as the number of the verses of the holy Quran, and the reciter of the Quran will be told in the hereafter, “Recite and go up.” It is reported that Imām Musa Ibn Jafar, peace be upon him, has said, “Each of our followers who dies and does not know the Quran well will be taug...