Beside investigating the different kinds and functions of the Interpretative narrations this article attempts to study their most important functions, by offering some samples, in understanding and interpreting the verses of the Quran with emphasis on the views, principles, method and the interpretation tendency of Allameh Tabatabie. The main question of this paper is whether all the narratio...

Being the last Divinely revealed book, the Holly Quran undertakes the mission for guiding human generations and its main audience, i.e. the Ahl ul-Bayt (p.b.u.t), are its interpreters. Interpretation of the innocents (p. b. u. t.) is specific to themselves and this is due to the width and depth of the meanings and also the relationship and connection of this family's educations with revelation ...

One of the issues considered by Muslim thinkers, especially the commentators of the Qurchr('39')an, is the adequacy or inadequacy of each of the Qurchr('39')an and the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) in bringing about a happy life for human and also the role of the two in relation to each other. The present article, based on the interpretation of the verse of Tibyan [explanation], seeks the Qurchr('39')anic a...

Introduction: The elderly, a part of human society, for who in different religious and non-religious cultures and rituals there is a special place and respect. The elderly, due to their abundant experience of ups and downs of life, may be valuable and very strategic models for the development and promotion of all aspects of human life (both religious and non-religious). As for Islam, as a relig...

One of the sources of interpretation of the holy Quran is narration. Some interpreters suffice with reporting narrations while some others critique and analyze them. Al-Manar by Abdoh and Rashid Reza and Al-Furqan by Ayotollah Sadeqi Tehrani belong to the second group which critically look into the evidence and text of the narrations. The aim of this research is to have a comparative study of t...

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 verse “Yet ye will not, unless Allah willeth” has been discussed and investigated in different interpretative and theological periods. For some commentators and theologians this verse points to “fatalism” and for some others it entails “human free will under the auspices of the Devine Will”. Semantic analysis of the verse with an emphasis on the commentaries reveals that the commentators’ i...