The Method of the Infallibles in Explaining Terms and Concepts ‎in the Quran's Medical Verses

Document Type : The Quarterly Jornal

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1 Level-Four Graduate, Comparative Exegesis of the Quran, Kosar Islamic Science Education Center, Tehran, Iran

2 Associate professor, Department of Quranic and Hadith Sciences, Faculty of Quranic Sciences, University of Qur'anic Sciences and Studies, Tehran, Iran.

3 Professor, Department of Quran and Hadith Sciences, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Email: maaref@ut.ac.ir

Abstract

Understanding the method of the Infallibles in interpreting medical verses, as well as the approach they took in the interpretative process to comprehend Quranic verses and reach divine intent through their scientific explanations, can serve as an effective method for deriving meaning from such verses in the Quran. The Infallibles, while considering other Quranic verses and using their own rational arguments, provided interpretations that reference verses on cosmic and introspective phenomena, such as the beginning of human creation, human need for oxygen, the point at which the fetus becomes alive, the period spent in the womb, personal identity, the darkness of the womb, air and oxygen, and the concept of pure milk being separated from blood. This article explores the method of the Infallibles in explaining and clarifying the terms within medical verses. Through content analysis and library-based research, the study reveals that they did not limit themselves to a single method in explaining the linguistic aspects of Quranic terms; instead, they employed various approaches. These include explanations concerning semantics, linguistic interpretation, analogical and visual representation, the use of antonyms, and other methods.

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