it is not possible to understand developments of a country’s culture and civilization without knowing his believes and myths. whether it is north or south, east or west, planes or mountains, sahara or deserts, here in iran every corner includes valuable and precious treasures which are known all over the world, and cultural – historical objects which are found here adorn all well known museums...

The term “seven ways” in the seventeenth verse of Surah Al-Mominun which has only been used in Quran once is generally interpreted as “seven heavens” or “seven overhead ways” and it has become the origin of some doubts. Exclusive attention to one meaning and ignoring the others, and paying no heed to the context of this verse and its collocations are possibly the origin of this viewpoint. Consi...

The Mosibat Nāmah written by ‘Attār Nishabouri (553-627 A.H.) is the narrative of a spiritual journey in the form of a mathnavi (a story in rhyming verse). The device of spiritual journey has been also used by the poet in another work of his, The Manteq al-Tayr (The Conference of Birds). Both works have a similar ending, although narratives are different. Among the narrative elements of The Mo...

Estekhlaf verse is the fifty-fifth verse of the holy Surah al-Noor, in which God makes a promise that those believers who carry out good deeds will be the successors of the rule of the righteous, disseminate the true religion and be in peace. This is one of the verses which is interpreted to refer to Imam Mahdi’s (a.s.) movement. Abolfazl Borqaei, having a background in Shiite religion and, of ...

The issue of perceiving God in Islamic theology, philosophy and mysticism is very important. It seems that there is no concern regarding the consensus among the proponents and opponents of perceiving God by the visual sense, though mystics have made a lot of efforts to reconcile the visual perception and intuitive discernment. Of these efforts, a typical example can be found in the interpretati...

The verse «Looking toward their Lord» has been known of those interpreted differently by Mu'tazilite, Ash'arite and Imamiyah commentators. In this verse, the meaning of the words: ‘toward’ and ‘looking’ are focused on semantically by these commentators. Referring to one of the semantic interpretations of the word ‘looking’, some commentators including Ash'arites have maintained that this implie...

Allāme Tabātabāii has paid special attention to applying narrations in the interpretations of the Holy Qurān. In his famous interpretation of Quran, Allāme Tabātabāii posed the issue of "narrative debates". Through assessing the narrations from fiqh al-hadith perspective and investigating the supply of narrations on the interpretation of Holy Qurān with regard to the rule of context, he analyze...