The significance of the Qur’anic Context in the Inference Method of the Investigator Al- Khalili: An Applied Study on the Book of Tamhid Qawaid Aliman

Abstract

This research aims to study the Qur’anic context and its relationship to the method of inference according to the editor (al-mu?aqqiq) Saeed bin Khalfan Al-Khalili, through analyzing his book, Introduction to the Rules of Faith (Tamh?d Qaw?'id al-’Im?n). Also, the research highlights the importance of investigating the Qur’anic context in understanding the meanings and deriving rulings from them, and the benefits and rules that must be taken into account in using the Qur’anic context as a tool for inference. The research follows the editor Al-Khalili methodology in deriving the relationship of the Qur’anic context to the fields of Qur’anic sciences that he employed in his book, such as stop and start, abrogator and abrogated, frequent and infrequent readings (Mutaw?tir and Non-Mutaw?tir), and dealing with the causes for revelation. The research also focused on deducing contextual links in the editor's interpretation of Surat Al-F?ti?ah, Al-An'?m, Al-?adid, and some Quranic stories. All this has been achieved according to the descriptive and analytical methodology based on collecting information and sources related to the subject, analyzing and evaluating them, and extracting results from them. Finally, the research concludes that editor Al-Khalili’s book Al-Tamh?d, with its thirteen parts, contains many Qur’anic verses in which he followed the Qur’anic context method in interpreting them, and thus demonstrated the extent of the Qur’anic context’s influence on understanding the Qur’an and inferencing from it.