among factors causing disagreement of shiites and sunnis is commentatorial   hadiths. such hadiths are of great significance in the process of understanding as well as commenting on the quran–and even inferring juristic precepts. hence, attitude of muslims towards such   hadiths play a significant role in the process of formation of their beliefs and inferring islamic precepts. attitude of sunn...

as the last celestial message for mankind, the holy quran has not dealt only with economical, spiritual, juristic, ritual, etc. aspects of man’s life; rather, it has constantly taken correction of people’s beliefs into consideration. belief in superstitions and wrong beliefs can harm the society as well as individuals in a serious, irremediable way. damages being caused by evil eyes and belief ...

This article tries to demonstrate that Islam recognizes women’s social presence and endorses their participation in political, economic, and cultural activities in society. The claim is supported by the Quranic reports of women’s social activities in the past nations and by a number of jurisprudential verses (āyāt al-aḥkām) pertaining to social matters. Further evidence for th...

The Quran and Hadiths including Infallibles (AS) Hadiths such as Imam Sadegh (AS) were one of compilation references, and also, one of the fields of research for Arabs morphologists from long time ago. Imam Sadegh’s (AS) Hadiths based on Sunni’s lexicon, and then, based on another Islamic science books will be illustrated in this research in order to identify where these Hadiths hav...

investigating a hadith narrated from the fifth shi‘a imam (abu ja‘far muhammad al-baqir) in two quranic commentaries of al-tibyan and majma‘al-bayan, the present essay finds its origin in al-masabih fi tafsir al-qur’an by abu al-qasim wazir maghribi (370-418 a.h.). wazir maghribi attributes that hadith to abu ja‘far in an ambiguous way. however, that hadith is neither narrated in shiite books o...

over 1100 quranic verses as well as 250hadiths attributed to the holy prophet, holy imams, and companions can be found in mulla sadra’s asfar. although mulla sadra is known as a philosopher, his unfinished commentary on al-kafi evidences that he has been familiar with hadith and other respective sciences as well. however, he has appeared more in a mystical persuasion in choosing hadiths in asfa...

the verse on “the world of primal covenant (‘alam al-zarr)” is among difficult quranic verses whose difficulty can be discovered by consideration of different opinions, which are sometimes opposite to one another, presented by quranic commentators. having accepted the existence of “the world of primal covenant,” mulla sadra has interpreted and expounded that world in accordance with his philoso...