HUMA 1845 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Tafsir, Tawil, Verbal Noun
6 Jan 2018
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Topic: tafsir and ta"wil of the qur"an: the rise of qur"anic. The urgency for interpretations of difficult and ambiguous parts of the. Qur"anic was felt only after the death of the prophet muhammad and his immediate companions. The prophet"s interpretations were hardly sufficient to satisfy the needs of a community that was not only growing apace in numbers but also was coming into contact with culture and traditions very different from those of arabia. The qur"an contains reports of bygone prophets and their peoples, parables, similes and metaphors, and admonitions; It also sets forth the pious obligations of prayer, fasting, almsgiving, the rites of pilgrimage and struggle in the way of god. It was therefore deeply involved with the daily life of the growing. An understanding of the meaning of the qur"an, especially the obligations vis- -vis god, became a necessity in a world without the. Prophet and/or those who remembered his clarifications of the intricacies of the qur"an.
