Methodological Understanding on Quranic Text and its Implication on the Sciences of Tafsir: An Analytical Study

Abstract

This study examined the methodology of understanding the Qur'anic text and its impact on the science of interpretation (?Ilm al-Tafseer) by demonstrating the established scientific foundations through which speech (Kal?m) is understood in general, and the Qur'anic texts in particular, and how this methodology was applied in interpretation, with the best results, and how deviation happens when this methodology is not used to the interpretation of the Qur'anic text. In addition to describing this process in depth, the researcher also provided instances that illustrate the consequences of deviating from the proper road to comprehending the Qur'anic text. The study was conducted in five chapters. The first chapter addressed the research plan and its general structure, while the second chapter elucidated the definition of the methodology for understanding the Qur'anic text and the facts upon which it is based, the concept and types of text, the characteristics of the Qur'anic text and the obligation towards it. The third and fourth chapters addressed the facts on which the methodology for interpreting the Qur'anic text is based, namely linguistic circumstance, religious validity, customary idiomatic, the sections of each of them, the arrangement of these facts with evidence and examples, and the applications of these facts for interpretation (Tafseer). The fifth chapter addressed the influence of the methodology of interpreting the Qur'anic text on interpretation by transmitted (M?ath?r), opinion (R?ay), and objectives (Maq??id) by explicating their sections and the impact of this methodology on each type with instances. The researcher relied on multiple approaches to reach the goal of this study within the scope of the study, which was represented by the statement of the methodology for correctly interpreting the Qur'anic text in accordance with scientific principles, evidence, and applications, as well as the impact of this methodology on the science of interpretation, by connecting scientific foundations and historical and contemporary concepts of the text of the Quran. The most important of the researcher's findings are that the Qur'anic text is unlike any other text and has many characteristics that distinguish it from others, and that these characteristics must be considered in any attempt to comprehend it and that to comprehend the Qur'anic texts, this must be done in accordance with the controls of the three facts and their particulars, which is the linguistic circumstance, religious validity and customary idiomatic. Any interpretation that disregards these norms and facts is incorrect, regardless of its origin or proverb. The researcher ended with several recommendations, the most significant of which is the necessity to evaluate the books of interpretation and change their conceptions that are inconsistent with the Holy Qur'anic text and its holiness and are not God's will.