Analyzing the Scientific Comprehensiveness of the Quran from the Viewpoint of Ayatullah Ma’rifat

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Undoubtedly, clarifying the boundaries and limitations of the “Issue of the comprehensiveness of the Quran” plays a fundamental role in understanding and interpreting the verses, especially the “scientific verses of the Quran.” Each of the commentators and Quran scholars has followed a certain method and tendency in explaining this issue and determining its scope. This caused many agreements and disagreements in this regard. Considering that Ayatullah Ma’rifat’s viewpoint is usually useful in the propositions of Quranic sciences and various exegetical topics. In this research, the using of rational and narrative methods and data collection through the library and their analysis in a descriptive-analytical manner, considering the contributions of this Quranic scholar in the contemporary period regarding the “scientific comprehensiveness of the Holy Quran”, we arrange this research. From his point of view, in the scientific verses of the Quran, there are “scientific emanations” that have been revealed from the Holy of Holies of the Wise God and to guide mankind. This expert scholar of the Quran in the contemporary period, citing several rational and narrative reasons, thinks that the comprehensiveness of this series of verses is the comprehensiveness of guidance. He emphasizes that unproven scientific theories should not be imposed on the verses of the Quran and should not be compared with their contents. He also believes that the more a person has benefited from the achievements of science and knowledge, the better he will achieve the most revelatory concepts

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The Quran and Science
Volume 16, Issue 30 - Serial Number 30
September 2022
Pages 29-48

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  • Receive Date: 09 February 2022
  • Revise Date: 07 May 2022
  • Accept Date: 07 June 2022

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